MANILA – The Congress on Wednesday proclaimed former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. as the country’s new president and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte as vice president following the fastest canvassing in the country’s election history. The House and Senate, acting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), approved the joint canvassing committee report and adopted […]
Four Agusan del Sur-based fisherfolk groups received assorted fish processing equipment worth PHP1 million that will be provided by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) 13 (Caraga). “Two of the four groups have received their processing equipment in distribution activities conducted on March 23 to 24,” BFAR-13 said in a statement Friday, referring […]
The Department of Agriculture in Caraga (DA-13) and the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) have combined their efforts to strengthen the rice monitoring and data gathering activities in the region. “Rice monitoring is vital since rice remains the staple food for the Filipinos,” Abel Wagas, chief of the Research Division of DA-13, said in a […]
The Philippines’ Department of Tourism (DOT) continues its marketing and promotional efforts a month after reopening to international leisure travelers, this time setting its sights on potential visitors from a major source market-Japan. Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo-Puyat led the Philippine delegation in engaging with Japan’s tourism stakeholders and promote the country as a safe travel […]
The Japanese government has signed a PHP14.48 million grant to help commercialize strawberry cultivation in a village in Silay City, Negros Occidental. The grant contract, signed by Ambassador Kazuhiko Koshikawa on March 14, would lay out an income option for the residents of Barangay Patag by using Japan’s strawberry cultivation technology and expertise in farm […]
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