Philippines Star

From November 2021 to February 2022, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Philippines monitored the sales of e-cigarettes across the different online selling platforms.

Citing common interests and shared goals of mutual cooperation, the Philippines and Japan have agreed to further advance their security partnership.

The increase in the number of Kadiwa centers is among the achievements of President Marcos during his first year as Department of Agriculture secretary, a ranking official said.

Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri has touted his leadership by consensus amid rumors that he would be replaced as leader of the chamber.

The Commission on Audit has flagged the Department of the Interior and Local Government for over P362.992 million of unspent funds meant to bankroll several local projects in 2022.

Allowing industrial users to directly import their sugar requirements “will kill the sugar industry,” Negros Occidental 5th District Rep. Emilio Yulo III said yesterday, as opposition to the call of Finance Secretary Diokno continued to snowball.

The average farmgate price of palay, or unhusked rice, went above P19 per kilo in May, driven largely by high production costs.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development has a new program that will reach out to individuals living in the streets.

The Supreme Court has ruled that power distributor Manila Electric Co. should issue a prior notice of at least 48 hours before cutting off a consumer’s electricity line.

The recent approval of a P40 increase in the daily minimum wage for private sector workers in the National Capital Region received criticism from three senators, who argue that the raise falls short of meeting workers' needs. 

FDA Director General Samuel Zacate said that the Pfizer bivalent vaccines can only be injected onsite once purchased from a pharmacy. Buyers will not be allowed to bring the jabs home or outside the store.

According to the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, only 10 out of the 200 Filipino pilgrims were endorsed for medical care at the hospitals in the Mina area and have since been discharged.

As President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. marks his first year in office, experts are optimistic about the potential for collaborative and transparent governance to thrive in the Philippines.

Acknowledging their “shared interest in a free, open and inclusive Indo-Pacific region,” the Indian government has once again extended a loan offer to help finance the Philippines’ defense requirements. 

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed six pieces of legislation after one year into his term as the 17th president of the Philippines.

President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos has yet to formally withdraw the policies enforcing Duterte’s anti-drug campaign, giving the world a “runaround” on the "war on drugs" killings and rights violations continuing under his watch, human rights groups said. 

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte has vowed to seek accountability from perpetrators in the shooting of a photojournalist in Barangay Masambong on Thursday.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised on June 8 the status of Mayon Volcano in Albay to Alert Level 3 after it showed an “increased tendency towards a hazardous eruption.”

President Marcos has directed the Philippine Coconut Authority to fast-track the coconut industry’s modernization for the Philippines to become a major coconut exporter.

May Richell Cestina-Parsons, the Filipino-British nurse who administered the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine, received a presidential citation in Malacañang.