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President Ferdinand â��Bongbongâ�� Marcos Jr. graces the National Higher Education Day Summit 2024 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City on May 15, 2024.

Marcos, AFP discuss marine defense

By Alexis Romero

President Marcos and military officials tackled the Comprehensive Archipelagic Defense Concept during a command conference at Malacañang on Tuesday.

About 100 fishing boats sail toward Pan- atag Shoal during the second civilian-led resupply mission by the Atin Ito Coalition yesterday.

WPS civilian convoy reaches Panatag today

By Michael Punongbayan

So said the NFA failed to use its P8-billion budget for palay procurement last year, so the agency has P17 billion this year which it can use to procure 566,666 metric tons of palay or 351,333 MT of rice.

Farmers oppose allowing NFA to import rice anew

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PNP ready to assist NBI on ‘wiretapping’ probe

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Bet substitution by COC withdrawal banned

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A jeepney plying its route in Manila passes a unit taking part in a transport strike yesterday against the governmentâ��s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program.

LTFRB: Unconsolidated PUVs apprehended starting today

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The National Food Authority-Negros Occidental.

Reinstated NFA employees to receive backpay

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his photo taken on Feb. 16, 2024 shows Filipino fishermen aboard their wooden boats (middle L and 2nd L) and Philippine Fisheries and Aquatic Resources personnel aboard their rigid hull inflatable boat (foreground C) sailing past a Chinese coast guard ship (top) near the China-controlled Scarborough Shoal, in disputed waters of the South China Sea.

DA eyes untapped WPS areas to boost fish production

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Undated photo shows the Oblation statue in the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman, Quezon City.

UP creating archipelagic, oceanic university

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The gloomy weather causes almost zero visibility at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Pasay City on May 13, 2024.

DA forms climate change panel

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People walk around the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8, 2023. Fighting between Israeli forces and the Palestinian militant group Hamas raged on October 8, with hundreds killed on both sides after a surprise attack on Israel prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn they were "embarking on a long and difficult war".

4 Pinoys, terror victims honored on Israel’s Memorial Day

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President Ferdinand â��Bongbongâ�� Marcos Jr. graces the National Higher Education Day Summit 2024 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Pasay City on May 15, 2024.

Marcos welcomes new envoys

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The trilateral agreement â�� signed by the National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHMFC), the municipality of Roxas in Isabela and Uanjelle Land Inc. â�� will kickstart the development as part of the Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (4PH) program.

Isabela sees socialized condo

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The MWSS is still awaiting the NWRBâ��s decision on its request for the board to maintain the 50 cms allocation for Metro Manila, MWSS water and sewerage management department manager Patrick Dizon said in an interview with The STAR.

Lower water allotment for Metro Manila starts today

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A security guard checks the locks on a clinic along Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay yesterday. The clinic was shut down following a raid on Monday. The city government said the facility has no business permit.

5 foreigners nabbed in raid on illegal clinic

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File photo of Sofitel Philippine Plaza Manila.

DOT: Sofitel closure ‘significant loss’ for tourism

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A Bureau of Customs personnel takes an inventory of the scorpions in a parcel seized at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Tuesday.

BOC seizes scorpions, isopods bound for Mexico

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Assistant Secretary Albert Domingo said reports on such advertisements shall be endorsed to the local DOH office for investigation and appropriate action.

DOH probes banned tobacco billboards

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Twin girls, 5, die in Tondo fire

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Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said his office is gathering information to determine if it can file a quo warranto petition against the mayor, whose identity as a Filipino citizen is being questioned over her alleged involvement in an illegal Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) firm.

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Officials inspect a dried up field in Bulalacao, Oriental Mindoro on February 27, 2024, following the local government's declaration of a state of calamity due to the severe damage of El NiÃ±o on the town's farmlands.

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