A lawmaker has called on Congress to pass the proposed Philippine Building Act to ensure that new and existing infrastructure ...

More than 400 people, half of them from China, were arrested by Philippine authorities in a raid on a suspected online gambling and scam hub in a busy commercial district in the capital, officials ...

APPROVED building permits continued to decline by record double digits in January, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. The PSA, citing preliminary data, said building projects covered ...

THE Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Tuesday said it would work with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to ensure local government units enforce stricter building permit ...

The Cebu City’s Office of the Building Official collected close to P70 million for the first quarter (or first three months) of 2025, surpassing its collection for the same period last year.

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Office of the Building ... said that 580 construction projects were found to lack a building permit. In addition, OBO also identified 425 projects that were issued ...

In return, the restored building would be worth about $4 million. In general getting a historic demolition permit requires proving that restoring the building would cause unreasonable economic ...