BTS 'Simple Smart Ako' The record-breaking ‘Live Your Passion with Purpose’ campaign of Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) headlined by 21st century pop icons BTS has won ‘Best Use of Video’ in this year’s Best of Tweets 2021 Southeast Asia by the popular microblogging and social...
Former K-pop boy band BTOB member Jung Ilhoon, 27, was freed from prison on Dec. 16 after an appeals court commuted his sentence. In its decision, the Seoul High Court gave Ilhoon a two-year prison sentence suspended for three years for habitual marijuana use. Former BTOB member Jung Ilhoon...
A bill granting married women the rightto retain their maiden names instead of adopting surnames of their husbands has been approved by the House of Representatives.
HOR plenary pandemic With 227 members voting in the affirmative, House Bill 10459 was passed on third and final reading. There...
Editorial Responding to an advisory of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that all government and private entities should accept the Philippine Identification Card (PhilID) as proof of identity, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ordered all banks and financial institutions under its...
Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinovac vaccines are expected to be administered to children ages four to 11 as part of the pediatric vaccination program before the end of 2021, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Tuesday, Nov. 23. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) "I would think before the end of the...
A Seoul appeals court upheld the prison sentence imposed against Jung Ilhoon, 27, a former member of K-pop boy band BTOB, who was found guilty of habitual marijuana use last June. On Nov. 18, the 13th Criminal Division of the Seoul High Court held an appeal trial against Ilhoon. Former BTOB member...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it is expecting that vaccine makers Pfizer and BioNTech will submit this November their application to authorize emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine for children aged five to 11. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE) "Ang aking expectation is probably within this...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has vowed to push for the exclusion of the use of face shield in the health protocol for the prevention of infection from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the improving situation in the country. In a news briefing on Thursday, Nov....
Innovation-at-the-Core-Standalone-5G-Core-Architecture Smart Communications Inc. has fired up its commercial 5G standalone (SA) sites in Makati, one of the first in the world. The 5G SA technology enables new industry applications using 5G’s full features, such as industrial automation,...
Less than a year before his term ends, President Duterte is being pressed by environment groups to act on their call to ban the use of single-use plastics as they assert "plastic pollution crisis should be addressed as urgently as the COVID-19 reponse." Environment groups EcoWaste Coalition, Break...
The Senate is set to begin plenary debates on the bill which would institutionalize the practice of extended producers responsibility (EPR) on their plastic packaging waste. (Photo from EcoWaste Coalition) Before the upper chamber adjourned sessions for a monthlong break Wednesday night, September...
Editorial The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Filipinos to shelter at home and harness the power of the internet for work, education, entertainment, and shopping for both necessities and “retail therapy.” With so many people going online for the first time, e-commerce has seen...
