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Bahagyang nagbukas muli ang mga paliparan sa United Arab Emirates matapos ang ilang araw na pagsasara ng airspace bunsod ng mga pag-atake ng Iran noong Marso 1.

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Ini-anunsyo ni French President Emmanuel Macron ang pagdaragdag ng kanilang nuclear warheads.

Hindi binanggit ng pangulo kung gaano ito karami, ngunit ito ang kauna-unahang pagkakataon mula pa noong 1992 na palalakihin ng France ang kanilang nuclear arsenal.

Pag-IBIG Fund declared the highest dividend payout in its 45-year history, announcing P64.34 billion in dividends for 2025. The Regular Savings dividend rate rose to 6.62%, while the Modified Pag-IBIG 2 (MP2) Savings rate climbed to 7.12%, reflecting the agency’s solid financial position and strong operational performance.

The announcement was made during the Pag-IBIG Fund Chairman’s Report held on February 27 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City. 

Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Secretary Jose Ramon P. Aliling, who chairs the Pag-IBIG Fund Board of Trustees, said the record dividend declaration reflects the agency’s sound fiscal management and its commitment to return strong, sustainable earnings to members by growing their savings year after year.

“Pag-IBIG Fund has once again marked 2025 as one of its best-performing years, as we declared the highest amount of dividends in our 45-year history,” Aliling said. 

“This past year, we reaffirmed Pag-IBIG Fund’s role as the country’s leading institution for housing finance and savings. 

Our strong performance enabled us to deliver higher earnings on members’ savings while keeping our housing loans affordable under the Expanded Pambansang Pabahay Para sa Pilipino (Expanded 4PH) Program. 

We will keep Pag-IBIG Fund’s growth sustainable, our programs affordable, and above all, ensure that members receive the benefits they have rightfully earned and truly deserve.”

“In doing so, we stand firmly with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s call to uplift the lives of more Filipinos,” he added. 

“We will remain steadfast in building a strong, secure, and inclusive

Pag-IBIG Fund that helps more hardworking Filipinos move closer to homeownership under a Bagong Pilipinas.”

In 2025, Pag-IBIG Fund posted P65.28 billion in net income, supported by strong housing loan performance, a sustained performing loans ratio, record-high membership savings collections, and higher investment earnings. 

The agency declared P64.34 billion in dividends for the year, equivalent to a 98.6% payout ratio that exceeded the minimum required under its charter, while maintaining a healthy capital adequacy ratio. 

By law, Pag-IBIG Fund returns at least 70% of its annual net income to members in the form of dividends. 

The results reflect the agency’s strong financial position and its continued effort to deliver the highest possible returns for members.

Pag-IBIG Fund Chief Executive Officer Marilene C. Acosta said the record dividend declaration was supported by the agency’s sustained growth, allowing it to deliver strong returns for members while keeping home financing affordable. 

In 2025, she said, Pag-IBIG Fund released a record P140.54 billion in housing loans, financing 90,727 housing units. 

Total membership savings collections, meanwhile, reached a record P160.41 billion, driven mainly by members’ voluntary savings.

“When Pag-IBIG performs well, our members benefit the most,” Acosta said. “This year’s dividend rates of 6.62% for Regular Savings and 7.12% for MP2 Savings reflect our continuing commitment to safeguard members’ contributions and ensure they earn strong returns year after year. 

Our members deserve nothing less than the highest level of public service and the most responsible management of their hard-earned savings.”

“We will begin crediting dividends on the Pag-IBIG Regular Savings and returns on MP2 Savings to members’ accounts, and members can expect to see these reflected in the coming days,” Acosta said.

 “We encourage our members to create their Virtual Pag-IBIG accounts to conveniently view their updated balances.”

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The Philippines and South Korea signed 10 agreements covering a wide range of areas during the state visit of South Korean President Lee Jae-myung.

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and President Lee witnessed the presentation of the signed agreements, which span defense, agriculture, economics, digitalization, and other fields.

In his statement, Marcos said the two countries concluded agreements in the fields of defense materials procurement, veterans affairs, agriculture, trade, investment and economic cooperation, intellectual property, digital cooperation, digitalization and innovation, Korean language training in schools, cultural cooperation, and police cooperation. He said these agreements will sustain the momentum of the Philippines-Republic of Korea Strategic Partnership going forward.

"We concluded a number of agreements in the fields of defense materials procurement, veterans affairs, agriculture, trade, investment and economic cooperation, intellectual property, digital cooperation, digitalization and innovation, Korean language training in schools, cultural cooperation, and police cooperation, which will sustain the momentum of the Philippines-Republic of Korea Strategic Partnership for the future," PBBM said.

President Lee, for his part, pledged continued support for the policies being pursued by the Marcos administration. He expressed support for the Philippine president's infrastructure policy and said South Korea will work closely with the Philippines in that area. Lee also said he would support Korean defense industry firms in playing an active role in the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

Marcos said the two leaders also discussed key regional issues, including the South China Sea and the Korean Peninsula. Both leaders underscored the importance of upholding the rules-based international order, particularly in the maritime domain.

The Philippine president also expressed gratitude to South Korea for its support in the modernization of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the strengthening of the Philippine Coast Guard, investments, key infrastructure projects, the use of artificial intelligence, and the protection of more than 70,000 Filipinos living and working in the Republic of Korea.