A new government center of the Antique provincial government will be temporarily shelved due to the failure to reclassify the land from agricultural to an institutional area.
The Bicol University Convention and Disaster Risk Reduction and Response Facility is expected to become a safe shelter for around 7,000 evacuees in times of calamity.
Financial assistance was handed to over 1,000 rice farmers in Ilocos Norte as part of the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund of the Department of Agriculture.
Senate President Loren Legarda has filed a resolution recognizing Filipina scientists in commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
The Philippine National Police received around PHP181 million worth of state-of-the-art equipment from the United States to help boost its counter-terrorism capability.