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MANILA – The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) on Monday said the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to Ukraine has been suspended due to tension between the host country and Russia.... Read full article
MANILA – Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Vatican's prefect for the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples, led the ordination to the episcopate of the fifth Filipino apostolic nuncio Arnaldo Catalan on Friday.... Read full article
MANILA – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday night confirmed that a Filipino national was injured in the attempted Houthi drone attack at the Abha International Airport in Saudi Arabia.... Read full article
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday urged the next administration to adopt “good practices” that are currently being implemented in the fight against Covid-19, noting that these would come in handy should there be another global health threa... Read full article
MANILA – Police officers seized PHP22.5 million worth of high-grade marijuana from four suspects in a buy-bust operation in Pasig City on Monday night.... Read full article
MANILA – The Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) on Tuesday said it will endorse the presidential candidate who would continue the legacy programs of President Rodrigo Duterte.... Read full article
MANILA – The Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) has expressed optimism that the Philippines will soon be out of the Global Impunity Index (GII) released by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a US-based media watchdog.... Read full article
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is committed to make the selection of appointees to positions vacated by the recently-retired Commission on Elections (Comelec) officials “completely transparent”, Malacañang said Monday.... Read full article
MANILA – While it assures there will be no water supply cut in Metro Manila, the National Water Resources Board (NWRB) on Monday urged again the public to conserve water as the Angat Dam’s water level is now at 190.75 meters.... Read full article
MANILA – Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año has urged people with mild symptoms of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) to opt for home quarantine and treatment to help prevent the country's health care sy... Read full article