A new government center of the Antique provincial government will be temporarily shelved due to the failure to reclassify the land from agricultural to an institutional area.
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.
The Antique local government planned that the investment forum building would now be available to cater to conventions and exhibitions to help the tourism industry.
Tourism Secretary Christina Frasco warmly welcomed the reopening of local airline flights at Clark International Airport, hoping that it would increase the number of tourists.
The regional office of the Department of Tourism in Northern Mindanao announced that they would soon allow persons with disabilities and individuals with no college degree to work in the tourism industry.