Manila: The headline inflation in Western Visayas for June this year remained at 6.8 percent, similar to its growth recorded in May, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Tuesday. PSA Western Visayas Regional Director Nelida Amola…
Manila: Continued unavailability of several major coal-fired power plants prompted the raising of another yellow alert status for the Visayas grid on Tuesday, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. A yellow alert is issued when the grid’s operating margin is inadequat…
Manila: Senator Robinhood Padilla has filed a resolution seeking a Senate investigation into the reported use of a portion of an Indigenous Peoples (IP) ancestral domain in Sitio Tibag, Subic, Zambales as a garbage dumpsite. In Senate Resolution 513, …
Manila: Five armed individuals, allegedly members of the ‘Gapos Gang,’ who impersonated law enforcement authorities to execute a robbery and illegal detention inside a residential community in Marikina City, were arrested by authorities, the Eastern P…
Manila: The government’s renewable energy (RE) bid got a boost from the inauguration of the first phase of the 3,500-megawatt peak (MWp) Terra Solar project here Tuesday. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) Chair and Ch…
