The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) said on Thursday, June 2, that the country has sufficient calamity funds to respond to typhoons and other emerging calamities.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) destroyed on Thursday, June 2, a total of P14.29 billion worth of illegal drugs seized in a series of anti-narcotics operations.
The incoming administration of president-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is set to inherit debts from borrowings to address the COVID-19 pandemic, but the Duterte Administration assured that it still considers cutting the country’s debt as one of its priorities.
The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has filed a complaint against four crew members of cargo vessel MV Happy Hiro after the vessel bumped into a Filipino fishing boat in Agutaya, Palawan on Saturday, May 28.
Five people, including the shooter, were killed in a hospital campus shooting on Wednesday evening in Tulsa, the second largest city of US state Oklahoma, authorities said.
In an attempt to avert a possible resurgence in COVID-19 infections, the Quezon City local government has devised an early warning system that detects and analyzes “signals” of a possible surge.