Cebu city: The Visayas grid continues to experience red and yellow alerts due to the continued unavailability of several coal-fired power plants, along with limited electricity imports from the Mindanao grid. The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines…
Manila: Sen. Francis Escudero is pushing for the passage of a bill that would institutionalize free housing through usufruct, allowing qualified low-income and homeless Filipinos to occupy and use government-owned land and housing without acquiring ow…
Manila: The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), in coordination with other law enforcement agencies, seized illegal drugs worth PHP1.10 billion and arrested 4,426 drug suspects in July. PDEA conducted 3,572 anti-drug operations nationwide durin…
Beijing: China on Friday suggested that the collapse of a high-altitude glacier in Nepal may have triggered a disaster across the border, resulting in at least 480 fatalities. Chinese President Xi Jinping urged officials to make “every effort” to loca…
