Category: General

Manila: The Australian government donated more than a dozen very high frequency (VHF) base radios to help improve the Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) communication linkages between its assets and stations in Palawan. The donation is part of Australia’s broader PHP328 million civil maritime cooperation with the Philippines, which includes vessel remediation, aerial drones, postgraduate scholarships, operational training, and annual Law of the Sea courses. ‘Australia is proud of our strong cooperation with the PCG. As Strategic Partners, we will continue to listen and respond to the PCG’s needs,’ Australian Ambassador to the Philippines HK Yu said. The Australian Embassy in

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has pledged at least PHP1 billion in support for the coffee farming industry, with a focus on farmers in Northern Mindanao. During his visit to the Bukidnon Integrated Coffee Center in Malaybalay City, on Tuesday, DA Secretary Francisco Laurel Jr. said he would seek an additional budget allocation from President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. He said the DA wants to reduce the country’s annual coffee bean import rate by 10 to 15 percent. “We need at least an additional 30,000 hectares for coffee farming, which I hope we can secure,” Laurel said. While in Bukidnon,

Manila: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday formally charged dismissed Bamban mayor Alice Guo before the Capas, Tarlac Regional Trial Court (RTC) for allegedly committing material misrepresentation when she filed her Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the May 2022 polls. In a criminal information filed by its law department, the poll body accused Guo of violating Section 74 of the Omnibus Election Code. “The accused Alice Leal Guo/Hua Ping Lin Guo, did then and there, willfully and unlawfully, commit material misrepresentation by filing her Certificate of Candidacy for the position of Mayor of the Municipality of Bamban, Province of

Manila: The Philippine Navy (PN) on Tueday said it saw more interactions with its allies in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) this year as Manila shifted to protecting its vast maritime territories with the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept (CADC). “So after the launching, the statement of the SND (Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro Jr.) on the CADC, there has been a dramatic increase in the activities in the WPS (by the) Armed Forces with our partners and allies,” PN spokesperson for the WPS Rear Admiral Roy Vincent Trinidad said in a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. From

MANILA: The local bourse shed on Tuesday’s trading on rising Treasury yields, while the Philippine peso closed sideways. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed 1.41 percent lower at 7,239.98, with All Shares, likewise, going down by 1.46 percent to 3,977.31. All counters ended in the red with the biggest shedding coming from the Property sector, down by 2.29 percent. This is followed by Financials, down by 1.55 percent; Services, down by 1.93 percent; Mining and Oil, down by 0.99 percent; Holding Firms, down by 0.93 percent; and Industrial, down by 0.75 percent. ‘The bourse was weighed by the weakness