Extended voting hours and incentivized vaccination of poll workers were among the recommendations of educators to ensure that the May 2022 elections will be safe from the threat of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) In a virtual forum entitled "COVID-Proofing the 2022...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go" has called on Friday, Nov. 26 for the passage of the E-Governance Bill, which seeks to establish an integrated, interconnected, and interoperable information and resource sharing communications network in government for speedy delivery of public services. Senator...
The country’s economic recovery hinges on the stability and reliability of power supply, and stakeholders must act in unison to ensure fuel and electricity rates do not hamper industries’ ability to rebound from the economic crisis brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the main message of...
Healthcare workers at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI) in Quezon City were among the first to get the booster shots provided by the national government as “early Christmas gifts” to them after its administration was officially launched on Wednesday, Nov. 17. A healthcare...
Air pollution in the Philippines is responsible for the premature deaths of at least 66,000 people every year and the loss in the country's economic growth, a joint report released by a climate think tank and a climate research organization showed. According to the report published by Institute for...
The Philippines' negligence of air quality is causing more deaths and losses of about $87.6 billion annually, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities (ICSC). 45000 “Air quality is not an abstract issue. Air pollution...
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) inaugurated on Tuesday, Nov. 9, the country’s first Metrology in Chemistry (MiC) Laboratory. (Photo from Department of Science and Technology-Industrial Technology Development Institute) DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña led the opening of the...
The Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines (FINEX) has lauded the government’s decision that lowered Metro Manila’s quarantine status to a more relaxed alert level. In a statement, Francisco Ed Lim, FINEX president said the National Capital Region’s (NCR) shift to Alert Level 2...
Senator Cynthia Villar has renewed her call for the development of farm tourism and schools in the Philippines as she launches the 6th edition of her Farm Tourism Book for 2021. The book, Villar said, consists of 2,805 listings of farm schools, tourism farms, learning sites and Technical Education...
One out of six or 15.5 percent of Filipino infants and children aged six months to five years had vitamin A deficiency (VAD), particularly those in the rural areas, based on the 2018-2019 Expanded National Nutrition Survey (ENNS) of the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition...
The Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has announced the start of the closed fishing season in Northern Palawan on November 1, 2021. This is to further boost the growing abundance of galunggong in the province. 43226 From November 1 to January 31 of...
(Photo from the Philippine Space Agency) The country’s space imaging capabilities took center stage in the latest edition of the Philippine Space Watch. Snapshots of different sights all over the world taken by Diwata-2 , the Philippines’ second microsatellite, were showcased, the Philippine...
