Senior citizens from Burgos, Ilocos Norte claim their social pension on Thursday (May 7, 2026). Each recipient received PHP3,000 to cover the first quarter of the year, providing essential support for their daily and medical requirements. (Contributed photo) LAOAG CITY – Local government units (LGUs) in Ilocos Norte have adopted the transfer of fund (ToF) scheme to…
Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental PIO) BACOLOD CITY – Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson on Friday reiterated his support for the Philippine Army, saying that the pursuit of the New People’s Army (NPA) remnants in Toboso town on April 19 was a legitimate military operation. The armed encounter in Barangay…
Philippine Sports Commission Chair Patrick Gregorio (center) and Bacolod City Mayor Greg Gasataya (2nd from left) lead the signing of the memorandum of agreement for the highly urbanized city’s hosting of the Batang Pinoy 2026, at the main lobby of the Bacolod City Government Center on Saturday (May 9, 2026). This year’s Batang Pinoy games…
Facing Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, nearly 10,000 residents in Christian villages are refusing to leave areas located inside the so-called “Yellow Line,” where Israeli forces continue to advance, clinging instead to their right to remain on their land and defying the Tel Aviv war machine. In the Bint Jbeil district, where powerful explosions and…
US President Donald Trump said Friday that the hantavirus is “not easily transferable, unlike COVID,” seeking to reassure the public as health authorities in multiple countries race to contain an outbreak linked to a cruise ship. “We seem to have things under very good control. They know the virus very well. It’s been around a…
COLOMBO (Xinhua) — Sri Lanka will accelerate drinking water projects and give greater attention to using domestic funds instead of foreign loans, local media reported on Saturday. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake gave the instruction during a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo to review national drinking water, community water supply and wastewater management projects,…
CANBERRA (Xinhua) — The Australian government will invest an additional 387.4 million Australian dollars (about 280.7 million U.S. dollars) into the country’s national science agency over the next four years to ensure sustainable delivery of groundbreaking research, a senior minister said on Saturday. “Publicly funded science is absolutely critical to the national interest and to…
HAVANA (Xinhua) — Cuba on Friday denied remarks by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio about an alleged U.S. offer of 100 million dollars in humanitarian aid to the island country. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said on X that Rubio had fabricated the claim to justify Washington’s actions against Cuba. Rubio told reporters on…
MOSCOW (Xinhua) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi counterpart, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, discussed the situation around the Strait of Hormuz during a phone conversation on Friday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. According to a ministry statement, both sides stressed the inadmissibility of a return to escalation and the…
The building that houses the health ministry in Tokyo. TOKYO – The risk of hantavirus spreading in Japan through person-to-person transmission is low, even if infected passengers from a cruise ship linked to a recent outbreak enter the country, the health ministry said Wednesday. The ministry called on the public to remain calm after three people…