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Day: July 28, 2023

Congress urged to support 100% electrification target by 2028

Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Raphael Lotilla has urged Congress to support the agency’s budget to fully energize the country by the end of the Marcos administration. Lotilla told reporters in Pasay City early this week that almost 5 million pe…

Antique farmers call for depopulation of backyard-grown hogs

Backyard swine growers in this town have volunteered their hogs for culling amid the continuing spread of the African swine fever (ASF). Municipal Agriculture Officer Rene Barte said in an interview Friday that backyard growers have already felt the b…

Antique farmers lose P5.5M worth of rice crops due to Egay

The province of Antique has sustained PHP5.5 million losses in rice crops due to Typhoon Egay-enhanced southwest monsoon. Serafin Yanga, Antique Office of the Provincial Agriculture focal person for natural calamity, said in an interview Friday that f…

Despite strained relations, locals long for united Korea

Despite strained relations between Seoul and Pyongyang, locals still long for a united Korea. Thursday marked 70 years to the end of the Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950. The two sides are technically still at war because, even though the conf…