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On February 13, several senators questioned a new ₱ 26.7 billion cash assistance program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) named "Ayuda sa Kapos ang Kita Program" (AKAP), which they described as a "foreign project". DSWD Undersecretary for Legislative affairs Fatima Aliah Dimaporo said the project was also "just as ...
The first driverless bus system in the Philippines is launched in New Clark City. [267] September 27: The 3.17-kilometer Panguil Bay Bridge connecting Lanao del Norte and Misamis Occidental is opened to traffic as the longest sea bridge in Mindanao. [268] The province of Misamis Occidental is declared "insurgency-free" by the government. [269]
Commercial fishing is causing environmental problems, exhausting food supply, and threatening livelihoods in the Philippines and around the world. [41] The Philippines has a strong fishing culture due to its historically productive and diverse marine ecosystems.
The incident was the two countries' latest run-in regarding the Scarborough shoal, a fishing ground within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone that China claims as its territory.
Bongbong Marcos and Sara Duterte were elected as president and vice president, respectively, in the 2022 Philippine election as part of the UniTeam alliance.. Duterte was appointed as Marcos' first Secretary of Education after they both took office in mid-2022, [1] although she preferred to be Secretary of Defense. [2]
BEIJING (Reuters) -The United States does not have the right to get involved in problems between China and the Philippines, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, as tensions simmer over ...
2023 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2023. On July 21, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos announced that the government will formally lift the COVID-19 state of public health emergency, marking the end of the three years of the pandemic.
Philippine law-enforcement agencies launched #RealNumbersPH on May 2, 2017, to publish data and publicity related to the drug war. [336] In the Philippine Senate, on August 22, 2016, the Senate committee on justice and human rights opened a Senate inquiry on extrajudicial killings and police operations under the Philippine Drug War.