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CHED to improve damage reporting system during calamities

MANILA -- While its regional offices were able to submit preliminary damage assessment reports on state universities and colleges (SUCs) affected by Typhoon Ompong, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) officer-in-charge J. Prospero...

Pacquiao is new chair of Senate ethics panel

MANILA -- Senator Manny Pacquiao was elected Tuesday as chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, replacing Senate President Vicente Sotto III. Sotto chaired the panel when Senator Aquilino Pimentel III was still...

DOLE allocates P44-M for ‘Ompong’-affected workers in Region 2

MANILA — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) has allocated over PHP44 million to provide emergency employment to workers affected by Typhoon Ompong in four provinces and one city in Region...

BFAR eyes more ‘galunggong’ imports

MANILA -- The government is mulling to import more "galunggong" or round scad fish, given the prevailing lean fishing season and the upcoming no-catching season for the Filipinos' staple fish, the Bureau...

Chief Justice orders to hike local court judges’ salary

MANILA -- As one of the several judicial reforms implemented under her term in the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Teresita Leonardo-de Castro has ordered an increase in the salary of first-level court...

Nothing irregular about ‘insertions’ in 2019 budget: solon

MANILA -- House appropriations committee vice chairman Ruffy Biazon on Tuesday said there is "nothing irregular" about congressional insertions made by lawmakers in the 2019 national budget. Biazon made the reaction amid reports...

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