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With Typhoon Mangkhut expected to bring heavy rains and winds as strong as 160 kph, House Appropriations Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” on Monday called on the National Food Authority (NFA) to intensify rice procurement operations so that it could buy palay from farmers before the supertyphoon hits the country. “The NFA has not had […]
Amid the mass evacuation of nearly 200,000 residents from flooded low-lying areas in Luzon, Senator Koko Pimentel III is urging President Rodrigo Duterte to appoint a new secretary of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). Pimentel said the government’s flagship poverty-alleviation program, which has a budget of P89 billion for 2018, “needs a […]