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The city council will investigate the latest attacks on university students who received text messages from an unidentified group that threatened to inflict harm on youth activists in Baguio. Since Tuesday, the local police have intensified the security around the [...]
The Philippines needs 106,000 nurses both in public and private facilities and hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday. DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said the country also has a shortage of doctors, pharmacists, radiologic technologists, medical [...]
ELECTRICITY consumers led by the Power for People Coalition (P4P) on Thursday, September 29, mobilized to protest the high electricity prices imposed on the island, as well as San Miguel Corp.’s (SMC) planned construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) [...]
Philip Morris International (PMI), the world’s largest cigarette manufacturer, has announced plans to invest an additional P8.8 billion (approximately $150 million) in its Philippine affiliate PMFTC Inc. to open manufacturing lines to produce specially designed heated tobacco sticks for its [...]
Cabinet secretaries who failed to get the nod of the Commission on Appointments (CA) before the start of Congress’ first adjournment tomorrow would be considered bypassed and would have to be reappointed by President Marcos if he wishes to keep [...]
Consumers in Metro Manila and neighboring provinces may have to cough up more for using water as the fast depreciation of the peso, now inching closer to 60 to a $1, is expected to push up rates come January next [...]
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has succumbed to a bear market after its composite index (PSEi) fell by over 239.47 points on Tuesday (September 27). PSEi reached the threshold of bear market as soon as it hit 6,041 points, with the index [...]
Members of the Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives both ratified the bicameral version of a proposal that would postpone the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) set in December 2022. The Senate announced the approval of [...]
Former Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs Richard P. Palpal-latoc has been appointed chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Palpal-latoc’s appointment was made public by the CHR late evening on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Aside from Palpal-latoc, President Ferdinand [...]
Standing in the middle of the new terminal building of Clark International Airport (CRK) yesterday, President Marcos declared the Philippines “now open for business” and played the salesman, vowing to attend to the needs of investors. “This facility is essentially [...]
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