BANGKOK, Thailand – A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said Tuesday. Four monks including an abbot at a temple in Phetchabun province's Bung Sam Phan district tested positive for...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 23, advised that Naga City will be an additional testing center for the upcoming December 2022 Licensure Examination for Criminologists (LEC). PRC / MANILA BULLETIN This was to allow examinees to take the LEC without unnecessary...
Senator Nancy Binay on Wednesday, July 6 called on the government to ensure that all school staff are fully vaccinated and that schools are fully compliant with Covid-19 safety protocols eve before the planned full implementation of face-to-face classes in November. As a parent, Binay said she too...
As the country's workforce starts returning to work, the government's pandemic task force is now mandating employers to require their onsite workers to get vaccinated against the virus. This came after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) updated...
Quezon City Police District (QCPD) officials and personnel underwent random drug testing on Saturday, June 11, at the QCPD Headquarters. A total of 77 Commissioned Officers (PCOs), Police Non-Commissioned Officers (PNCOs), and Non-Uniformed Personnel (NUP), and Police Aides (PAs) underwent the drug...
SHANGHAI, China -- President Xi Jinping said China must stick "unswervingly" to its zero-Covid strategy, as more than half of Shanghai's 25 million lockdown-weary residents gird Friday for a weekend virus testing drive. China is the last major economy still pursuing a policy of stamping out all...
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), on Friday, June 3, designated Tuguegarao City as an additional testing center for the June 2022 Architect Licensure Examination. (PRC / Manila Bulletin) In an advisory, the Commission said that the tests will be given on June 17 and June 19, 2022 in...
Photo by Ragga Muffin from Pexels Soil testing allows farmers to identify the nutrient content of their soil, thereby helping them make better decisions with what amendments to apply. It may seem like a daunting task, but there are both low-tech and high-tech solutions that farmers can use so they...
Secuna Philippines’ first and only cybersecurity testing platform, Secuna, reported that it has detected and resolved 494 vulnerabilities across 21 private local firms in 2021. In addition, Secuna’s bug bounty payouts increased to $24,045 for valid bug reports from its thousands of ethical...
BEIJING, China -- The Chinese megacity of Guangzhou on Thursday cancelled hundreds of flights and began testing 5.6 million people over one suspected Covid case, part of an escalating battle across the country to extinguish the virus. China is facing its worst outbreak since the peak of the first...
BEIJING, China – Fears of a hard Covid lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital. China is already trying to contain a wave of infections in its biggest city Shanghai, which has...
In hopes to reduce animal testing, the Department of Science and Technology-Business Innovation through Science and Technology (DOST-BIST), has funded a local pharmaceutical company for three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting on human skin. The project "Three-dimensional Bioprinted Human Skin...
