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5.3-M households to benefit from DSWD’s poverty alleviation drive

MANILA -- A total of 5,387,000 households stand to benefit from the government’s poverty alleviation program nationwide, an official of the Department of Social Welfare and Development said on Tuesday. During the DSWD...

Palace: Closure of small-scale mining in CAR akin to rehabilitation

Following the closure of small-scale mining operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region due to the death and entrapment of miners at the height of Typhoon Ompong, the Palace said that this...

Gov’t agencies deliver more aid to Ompong-stricken Cagayan

MANILA -- The latest batch of medicines and relief goods from the national government were delivered Tuesday morning in Tuguegarao City for distribution in Cagayan, one of the provinces hardest hit by...

Galvez feted with prestigious Bulacan award

MANILA --- For his outstanding service to the military profession, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Gen. Carlito G. Galvez, Jr. was awarded Bulacan's "Gawad Dangal ng Lipi" in...

NDRRMC count: 218K families affected by ‘Ompong’

MANILA -- The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said the number of families affected by Typhoon Ompong has now reached 218,492. In its 6 a.m. update on Tuesday, signed by...

BRP Tarlac leaves for Russia Friday

MANILA -- Strategic sealift vessel BRP Tarlac (LD-601) will leave the country for the Navy's first-ever port visit to Vladivostok, Russia on Friday (September 21). This was confirmed by Philippine Navy (PN) spokesperson...

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