The country has recorded 128,346 dengue cases from Jan. 1 to Aug. 20 this year, the Department of Health reported yesterday.

Job opportunities await Parañaque residents following the groundbreaking for the construction of the pioneering model cluster plastic recycling and materials recovery facility, which is expected to be operational next year.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the petition of an anti-corruption watchdog to stop the Land Transportation Office from implementing a contract with a German technology company amounting to P836 million for the delivery of driver’s license cards.

More than 3,000 job vacancies in 131 government offices are up for grabs during the online career fair to be held from Sept. 19 to 23, the Civil Service Commission announced yesterday.

The Department of Trade and Industry has conducted an inspection of grocery stores in Manila to check sugar prices, including those from the three supermarket chains that committed to offer refined sugar at P70 per kilo.

The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office has remitted P2.5 billion to the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. to support the government’s universal health care program.

Nearly 1,500 draftees were sworn into the Philippine Coast Guard service yesterday in what the PCG said was the largest oath-taking ceremony of enlisted trainees in its history.

It’s a special non-working holiday today in the Cordilleras in observance of the 36th anniversary of a peace pact signed between the government and the Cordillera Bodong Administration-Cordillera People’s Liberation Army.

Seven persons were wounded when a grenade exploded in a restaurant in this city on Sunday night.

A magnitude-4.3 earthquake shook parts of the Ilocos provinces yesterday morning.