As typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi, internationally) left over 200 Filipinos dead while affecting nearly 2 million people, President ...

Tropical Storm Agaton (Megi), the Philippines' first tropical cyclone in 2022, has caused massive flooding and landslides, leaving a trail of death and destruction in Leyte, Samar, Capiz and other ...

MANILA, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Close to four million people in the Philippines became poor in the first half of the year due to pandemic-induced lockdown measures that dried up jobs and reduced domestic ...

A Catholic foundation is partnering with the Philippine Agriculture Department to produce vegetables that will feed the nation's poor communities. The Care of God Foundation, which is dedicated to ...

Let me start by extending our warmest greetings to Secretary Arsi Balisacan, NEDA Secretary; to our distinguished panelists, to the Representatives from the private sector, civil society, the academe ...

Francisco Sales believes he could have saved the lives of his wife Gloria Operario and their unborn child during childbirth three years ago if he had enough money. Gloria had a risky third pregnancy ...

CALBAYOG, Philippines — Delfina Guiwan’s heart was pounding as she sneaked back to her village, now abandoned and eerily quiet, in the fertile foothills of the gently erupting Mayon volcano in the ...

MANILA, Dec 22 (Reuters) - The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 22.4% or 25.24 million people in the first half of 2023, the government's statistics agency said on Friday, from 23.7% in the same ...

A vendor arranges her vegetables at a market in Manila, Philippines, in this 2018 file photo. A Philippine Catholic foundation will partner with the country’s agriculture department to grow vegetables ...