The Department of Tourism (DOT) is supporting the bid of the Iloilo City government to be designated as Creative City of Gastronomy by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creative Cities Network 2021. The Creative City tag will be part of the campaign to boost tourism, create environments that foster innovation, and creativity as key drivers for more sustainable and inclusive development. “Iloilo, as a gastronomic hotspot, offers two of the country’s well-loved dishes — the La Paz Batchoy and Pancit Molo. We are giving our full support to Iloilo for this initiative. We believe that it

The Philippines championed a cooperative, transparent, science-based, and coordinated regional and global response for equitable access to vaccines at the Association for Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Seminar on Upholding Multilateralism held last July 13 via videoconference. The Philippine delegation, composed of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Health (DOH) representatives, was led by Deputy Assistant Secretary Marian Jocelyn Tirol-Ignacio who spoke at the session on Multilateral Cooperation to Recover from the Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and Prepare for Future Public Health Emergencies. Tirol-Ignacio sounded the alarm on the significant gap in vaccination against the coronavirus

Bike enthusiasts in Antique Province on Saturday joined the nationwide “Bike for Justice and Peace” to commemorate the 40th day of the death of the Absalon cousins who were killed in a roadside explosion of an anti-personnel mine (APM) in Masbate City last June 6. The explosion of the APM planted by the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Purok 4 Barangay Unas, Masbate City left Kieth Absalon, a football player of the Far Eastern University (FEU), and Noven Absalon dead. Antique Provincial Police Office (APPO) information officer Staff Sgt. John Mark Gonzaga, in an interview on Saturday, said the