Customers of the Manila Electric Company will have to pay more on their electricity bills for June as the power distributor on Friday announced a rate hike of ₱11.9112 per kilowatt-hour, a ₱0.4183 increase from May's ₱11.4929 per kWh.
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered all national government agencies and instrumentalities to "strictly" implement water conservation measures to prevent a looming water crisis in the country amid the possible occurrence of the El Niño phenomenon.
The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said the number of deployed Filipino workers abroad may hit pre-pandemic levels this year as it has seen an upward trend in the past two years.