The Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC) will get a sufficient budget for 2024 to help the poor and marginalized patients in Mindanao, assured Senator Christopher Lawrence Go who was born in this city. This year, the government allocated a total…
A Japanese startup is piloting an artificial intelligence-powered (AI) disaster management tool in the Philippines to help provide real-time information in times of emergency. The initiative is part of a public-private partnership promotion program be…
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Saturday emphasized the vital role of the youth in accelerating the green transition. In his message on International Youth Day, Marcos said the young population, who serve as ‘both the trailblazer of the modern wo…
Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has pledged to see through the passage of the Negros Island Region (NIR) bill in the Upper Chamber by December this year. “I committed that before we go on a break in October, we will be able to at least tackle it, …
The Sudan conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, with 6.3 million of them “one step away from famine,” the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “Around 42 percent of Sudan’s population had now been p…
The Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) has lined up a series of training classes this year to help furniture manufacturers develop new and highly marketable products out of non-tradit…
