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Sep 24, 2026
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is proposing institutional amendments worth around P20 billion to its proposed P643.95-billion budget for 2027, a House lawmaker said Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Population and Development (CPD) and its partners on Thursday called for wider access to family planning and contraception as the Philippines records its lowest fertility rate yet, while many women still face difficulty obtaining the reproductive health services and methods they need. The call came as the country
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A father and son at the heart of a family-run drugs gang which flooded the UK with more than £56 million of cocaine have been jailed.
Geoff Cumiskey, from Workington in Cumbria, was reported missing by his wife Nikki Jane on 23 September
MANILA, Philippines — Out of the estimated 288,000 people living with HIV (PLHIV) in the Philippines in the first quarter of 2026, only 56 percent had been diagnosed as of June, according to the latest figures from the Department of Health (DOH). The DOH recorded 159,997 people living with HIV who had been diagnosed or
MANILA, Philippines — About P311 billion in state funding for the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) remains unreleased, Bataan Rep. Albert Garcia said Thursday. Garcia revealed this while sponsoring the health sector’s spending plan for 2027 during a congressional budget debate. He said P199.44 billion in obligatory funding from sin tax collections, revenues from the
MANILA, Philippines — Government information and technology officials have appealed to critics to understand that protecting people’s lives takes precedence over the continuous availability of social networking sites. The plea comes as the ban on the messaging apps Reddit and Discord is lifted. Information and Communications Technology Secretary Henry Aguda and Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC)
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MANILA, Philippines — Questions surrounding alleged unidentified or inadequately documented beneficiaries in the Office of the Vice President’s (OVP) ₱168-million disaster-relief operations have revived comparisons to controversial names previously linked to the office’s confidential fund records. During a press briefing on Wednesday, House prosecution panel adviser and spokesperson Robert Ace Barbers highlighted a Commission on
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