Manuel Cayon

The Davao Consumers Movement said the pronouncement “sounded like good news” for consumers but it said “easing bills is good but it should not branch out to other problems.”

DAVAO CITY—Indigents at the Bangsamoro region will now enjoy faster receipt of cash assistance by using the Bangsamoro Card that was distributed to them late last week, the autonomous region's Ministry of Social Services and Development (MSSD) said.

DAVAO CITY—A university-based disease watch and analytics center here will gather international experts on health, artificial intelligence and other disciplines to discuss more adaptive measures to address pressing health concerns that come in various forms, speed and complex configuration.

DAVAO CITY—Town mayors of this eastern Mindanao province have been ordered to assess anew and retrofit government buildings to prevent future damage to earthquakes commonly occurring along the Philippine Trench, the country's longest earthquake generator running across the eastern side of the Philippine archipelago.

Initially estimated at magnitude 7.1 the final adjusted measurement by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology was magnitude 6.4

DAVAO CITY—The Philippines holds the record for the world’s third largest geothermal generator, with its location along the Pacific Ring of Fire making the country standing with still a huge untapped geothermal resource. The Lopezes’ First Gen said the country’s 2,057-megawatt installed energy capacity from geothermal resource made it the…

DAVAO CITY—Mindanao would like to explore it becoming part of the production chain of the ecosystem generated by the entry of Pax Silica in the Philippines, as other interest groups were also positioning themselves over the similar possibility, a ranking official of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said.

DAVAO CITY—Organizers of the Makati-hosted designers' bazaar will hold its roadshow event here for the first time early next month, to test the waters of a regular regional swing of the annual event and to discover more talents and designs.

DAVAO CITY–Food security, sustainable energy and resilience programs are the appropriate programs to meet the challenges of government and business in the Zamboanga Peninsula, one of the economically struggling regions in the country.

DAVAO CITY—Young lawmakers of the Bangsamoro government have pushed the Parliament's approval of laws for the youth covering maritime travel safety, protection of the youth involved in early and forced marriages and transparency in governance.