MANILA, Philippines — The September 30 earthquake that hit Cebu and neighboring provinces should prompt Congress to immediately tackle his proposal for a new building code, a lawmaker said. In a ...

MANILA, Philippines — House Bill (HB) No. 8500, which would replace the country’s over four-decades-old National Building Code, was approved on its third and final reading on Wednesday. If signed into ...

IN the wake of the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that devastated the Mandalay region in Myanmar, and parts of Thailand, legislators want to revisit the National Building Code with the end of imposing ...