Mandatory evacuation of all Filipinos in Ukraine has been enforced by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) due to the "rapidly deteriorating security situation" in the war-stricken country. Filipinos from Ukraine to arrive in Manila on Tuesday night, March 1, 2022. (Photo courtesy of the DFA)...
Senator Aquilino Pimentel III on Monday, January 7 said adult or child vaccinations should not be mandatory. Since COVID-19 vaccinations are still considered experimental or under emergency use authorization (EUA), Pimentel said inoculating people, particularly children, without their parents’s...
(AFP/MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that Filipino children are not compelled to receive the vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). However, it reiterated that the vaccines can provide protection against the viral illness. This was the reminder of DOH...
Student leaders from the University of Santo Tomas (UST) have expressed their opposition to Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte's proposal to make military service mandatory for Filipinos turning 18 and instead pushed for mandatory history subjects in high school. University of Santo Tomas (Photo from...
Cebu 1st District Rep. Eduardo Gullas has backed aspiring vice president Sara Duterte-Carpio's plan to make military service mandatory for those 18 years old as he believed "is it good for nation building." Gullas, who authored House Bill 1788 to reinstate the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz The most beautiful legacy of the First Quarter Storm of 1970 is the idea that young people have roles to play in the country beyond and above what is considered normal or acceptable. It expanded the democratic horizon for us. Remembering this event and its effects on Philippine...
VIENNA, Austria – Austria's parliament on Thursday is expected to approve making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for adults from next month, becoming the first European country to do so. Lawmakers from all parties, except those from the far right, are expected to vote in favour of the new...
Aspiring vice president Sara Duterte-Carpio on Wednesday night, Jan. 19 hit her fellow vice presidential candidate Walden Bello after the latter accused her of teaching the people "to kill" through mandating those 18 years old to serve in the Philippine military. Duterte-Carpio said "only the likes...
Vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio will push for mandatory service in the military for those 18 years old should she win in the upcoming elections. During her virtual "caravan" streamed on her Facebook page on Wednesday night, Duterte-Carpio said she would use the Office of the Vice...
Senator Richard Gordon on Monday called on returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who are set to observe strict mandatory quarantine or are already undergoing isolation to enroll at the online courses offered by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) to keep their...
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) is pushing anew for the mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) amid the upsurge of cases during the Holiday season. While a law is still needed to do so, Department of the...
Parañaque City Mayor Edwin Olivarez said on Thursday, Dec. 30, the Metro Manila Council (MMC) will recommend the implementation of mandatory vaccination to the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF). Mayor Edwin Olivarez (Paranaque PIO photo) In an interview with DZBB, Olivarez said mayors in the National...
