MANILA: The Philippines held India to a draw in the final round to place third in the 1st FIDE Chess Olympiad for People with Disabilities at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Belgrade, Serbia on Saturday.National Master Darry Bernardo won against Kumar A. Nav…
Continue ReadingANKARA: The US shot down a suspected Chinese spy balloon on Saturday which had been spotted above US airspace off the coast of South Carolina for several days already.An operation is underway to recover debris from the balloon in the Atlantic Ocean.Def…
Continue ReadingMANILA: More indigent persons and their families will be aided by the Philippine Charity Sweepstake Office (PCSO) through the Universal Health Care (UHC) once the agency’s documentary stamp tax (DST) rate is lowered to 10 percent.This was emphasized by…
Continue ReadingBACOLOD CITY: Anti-drug operatives seized PHP3.536 million worth of shabu and arrested two suspects in separate buy-busts here over the weekend, reports of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Western Visayas (PDEA-6) showed.The first operation at ar…
Continue ReadingMANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has welcomed the approval of the construction of a 440-megawatt (MW) solar farm in Ilagan City, Isabela province that is expected to boost the administration’s renewable energy thrust and local job generation.M…
Continue ReadingMANILA: Department of Budget and Management (DBM) Secretary Amenah Pangandaman urged all government units to utilize at least 80 to 90 percent of their 2023 budget allocations.Pangandaman made the call in a taped interview with SMNI News Saturday night…
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