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Iloilo City warns residents: skip selfies during storms

ILOILO CITY – The Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (CDRRMO) has urged residents to prioritize their safety instead of taking photos or selfies during severe weather, after a “micro-tornado” swept through parts of the city over the weekend. Darwin Joemil Papa, head of the CDRRMO’s Disaster Response Division,

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Electric cooperatives dominate list of highest July power rates

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Child first, story second: CWC’s new rule for media

ILOILO CITY – The Council for the Welfare of Children (CWC) urged journalists and content creators to place a child’s best interests ahead of the demands of their stories and content in its latest media reporting guide. The Guide for Media Practitioners on Reporting and Coverage of Children, revised in

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DSWD aid reaches 6,269 Negros farmers hit by RSSI

BACOLOD CITY — The Department of Social Welfare and Development-Negros Island Region (DSWD-NIR) has released PHP 64,727,425 in Emergency Cash Transfer assistance to 6,269 farmers and landowners whose sugarcane plantations were affected by the widespread infestation of the red-striped soft scale insect, or RSSI. The first wave of distribution amounted to

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GCash spotlights Ilongga lawyer’s journey in latest #GCashStories campaign

Atty. Sheila Gomez shares the inspiring story behind Kasama Mo Mangarap GCash has launched the sixth installment of its #GCashStories campaign, featuring the story of Ilongga lawyer Atty. Sheila Gomez, whose journey from working student to practicing lawyer highlights the role that GLoan played in supporting her journey as a lawyer Themed “Kasama Mo Mangarap,”

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It is 2026, and we are still arguing with a ghost. Almost a decade after the 2017 Dengvaxia political circus, Ilonggo parents are still staring at free, life-saving vaccines and hesitating. You cannot entirely blame them. Fear is a sticky thing, and social media algorithms are engineered to keep it glued to our feeds. Today,

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