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Davao City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte and two other lawmakers want the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) to provide free annual medical checkups for all its members to ensure that every Filipino gets access to preventive care and are able to address potentially...

The National Public Transport Coalition (NPTC) yesterday announced the cancellation of the mass transport strike scheduled for next week in protest of the franchise consolidation of public utility jeepneys and UV express in relation to the government’s transport modernization program. “Since...

DAVAO CITY – Over 1,000 families affected by the recent flash flood here received relief assistance from the Office of the First Congressional District Representative Paolo Z. Duterte on February 22, Wednesday morning. The First Congressional District Office’s personnel distributed emergency...

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) has seized approximately 2.1 million pesos worth of smuggled cigarettes at Galas Feeder Port in Dipolog City, yesterday, 20 February 2023. The confiscated goods, hidden inside rice bran bags, were detected with the help of the Coast Guard K9 Force. Moreover, the...

Philippine authorities are working double time to save the jobs of 49,000 Filipino seafarers aboard European ships and the $7 billion they send home each year. This, Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista said, comes on the heels of a European Commission’s impending action in April or May 2023...

To make specialty health services accessible to all Filipinos, Reps. Paolo Duterte and Eric Yap recently filed a proposed measure that aims to create regional specialty centers across different hospitals in the country. House Bill No. 6857, also known as the Regional Specialty Hospitals Act, is...

The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on February 8th that the country’s unemployment rate was 4.3% in December 2022, the second lowest since April 2005 after the November 2022 unemployment rate of 4.2%. Despite 43,000 jobs being lost in the labor market, increasing the...