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.
The Northern Samar provincial government revealed that its famous pili nuts would be included as one of the products featured in the International Food Exhibition in Dubai.
The Negros Occidental provincial government has already transferred the Bacolod City District Office building to the Land Transportation Office in Western Visayas, following its high volume of transactions.