With a series of typhoons causing widespread devastation across the country, a disaster scientist from the University of the Philippines has urged local government units and the general public to ...

Typhoon Yinxing battered the northern Philippines with floods and landslides before blowing away from the country, leaving ...

Balanga was named the "Most Business-Friendly Local Government Unit (LGU)" in the Philippines for 2024 in the recent 50th ...

The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Thursday instructed eight of its regional offices to start preemptive evacuations as ...

We should further strengthen our efforts to put an end to this societal menace that violate the rights of children." ...

MANILA, Philippines — Advanced technology from PLDT and its ... emergency calls are now routed directly to the respective local government unit’s (LGU) Local Emergency Response Centers. The ...

The Climate Change Commission (CCC) recently conducted the ACT Local Program Training Writeshop, designed to empower local government units (LGUs) to ...

Typhoon Yinxing marks the 13th major storm to strike the disaster-prone Philippines this year, leaving 630,000 displaced so ...

NEARLY a decade since the passage of the Public Employment Service Office (Peso) Law, less than half of the country's local ...

In a nation of farmers, the Philippines is now importing more rice than any other, heaping poverty and debt on struggling ...

Cervical cancer is the second most prevalent cancer among women in the Philippines. Twelve women die every day, and 7,897 cases diagnosed annually. Although preventable, the country now faces a ...

In the Philippines, where daily realities and survival instinct ... LOCAL GOVERNMENT: Trust grounded in familiarity In the government sphere, local government units (LGUs) hold a higher degree of ...