THE MANILA International Airport Authority (MIAA) on Sunday said 181 flights — 160 domestic and 21 international — were canceled due to Typhoon Nalgae (Paeng).

A GROUP of Filipino scientists urged the government to provide a significant increase in the state weather bureau’s budget, citing escalating threats from changing climate patterns.

AGRICULTURAL damage caused by Tropical Storm Paeng, with international name Nalgae, has been initially estimated at P49.54 million, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).

THE HOUSE Committee on Climate Change will tap public and private sector experts to help enhance proposed laws aimed at creating a more green Philippine economy and protect sectors most vulnerable to climate change.

A BILL has been filed in the House of Representatives seeking to integrate lessons on environmental protection, entrepreneurship, and reproductive health in primary and secondary school subjects to help nurture the young towards responsible adulthood.

FILIPINO families that experienced hunger in July to September, the first three months of the Marcos administration, slightly fell to 11.3% from 11.6% in June, according to a poll by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).

THE BANGSAMORO government has declared a state of calamity in the entire region after weeks of torrential rains, including those brought by tropical storm Paeng (international name: Nalgae) caused widespread flooding and landslides in Cotabato City, the regional center, and the Maguindanao provinces. At least 40 people in the region have been confirmed to have died while thousands of families have been evacuated.

DAILY coronavirus infections in the Philippines could hit 18,000 once the mask mandate indoors is lifted, according to health authorities.

PARTY-LIST representatives have filed a resolution asking Congress to probe the state’s alleged efforts to revise Philippine history by putting the martial rule era of the late dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos in school modules in a positive light.

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday called China an “active partner” of the Philippines as he led the groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a $400-million (P23.3 billion) bridge by a Chinese company in the country’s south. 

TROPICAL storm Paeng may intensify by Saturday into a typhoon, which means having maximum wind speed of 118 to 184 kilometers per hour (kph), and bring torrential rains in parts of Luzon and the Visayas, the state weather agency said on Thursday.

THE NUMBER of people injured during a magnitude 6.4 earthquake that rocked the northern Philippine province of Abra on Tuesday night has gone up to 44 from an initial count of nine, authorities said on Thursday.