YELLOW and red alerts were declared on the Luzon and Visayas power grids Tuesday, with power reserves thinning after a number of generating plants announced forced outages. In a statement Tuesday, the National Grid Corp. Read More
REUTERS THE Philippines has proposed to Japan and the US ministers its accession to the US-Japan Critical Minerals Agreement. “Critical minerals were one of the topics we covered in our trilateral ministerial meeting. We emphasized Read More
BOC THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said the streamlined food import process under Administrative Order No. 20 will be open only to legitimate traders to prevent abuse of the rules by would-be smugglers. “We will be Read More
BASIC GOODS prices are not expected to rise at retail level if manufacturers continue to hold their prices steady, supermarket operators said. “As long as there is no notice from manufacturers saying they will increase Read More
PHILSTAR By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter SINGAPORE — The creation of a disease control and prevention center in the Philippines would boost the country’s integration into global health surveillance systems, which the Southeast Asian Read More
PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Tuesday said Vice-President (VP) Sara Duterte-Carpio would remain in his Cabinet despite his wife’s ill feelings against her. “It will not affect our working relationship with the Read More
PHILIPPINE Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique A. Manalo and Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis will meet in Manila this week to discuss boosting ties in clean energy, trade and investment, and science and technology, according to Read More
By John Felix M. Unson, Contributor COTABATO CITY — One of the three top faction leaders of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) wanted for 47 heinous crimes was killed along with 10 of his followers in a Read More
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said on Tuesday that by June, his government would be rolling out a vaccine against African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious viral disease in hogs. Read More
THE UNITED STATES’ latest Department of State report on human rights concluded that “there were no significant changes in the human rights situation in the Philippines” despite noting that extrajudicial killings by police agents have Read More