Manila: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered government agencies and local officials to tighten disaster preparedness and enforce laws, including ‘no-build zones,’ as the country grapples with increasingly intense rainfall and flooding caused…
Quezon city: State-run Social Security System (SSS) is planning to assist its members in transitioning to renewable energy by launching an Energy Sustainability Loan program next year. SSS President Robert Joseph de Claro announced the initiative duri…
Manila: The Philippine National Police (PNP) has tasked police chiefs and unit commanders to strengthen monitoring on flooded roads and expressways in order to maximize assistance to the affected motorists. PNP chief Gen. Jose Melencio Nartatez Jr. em…
Manila: The Department of Education (DepEd) will conduct the National Simultaneous School Safety Drill on Thursday, with the exercise focusing on institutional preparedness for active threat scenarios while ensuring strict safeguards for learners’ psy…
Pangasinan: A total of 4,306 families, or 14,011 individuals, in Pangasinan have evacuated due to flooding, and one death was recorded early Tuesday amid heavy rains brought by the enhanced southwest monsoon or “habagat” and recent tropical cyclones, …
