The United States will be donating an additional P400-million aid to the Philippines for the recovery of typhoon Odette victims, the US Embassy in the Philippines said Monday, May 23. Aftermath of Typhoon Odette in Dinagat Islands (Photo courtesy of the OVP) United States Agency for International...
The Philippines has received a US$1.5-million cash assistance from Saudi Arabia for the development of health facilities in war-torn Marawi City. Acting Foreign Secretary Lourdes Yparraguirre (center) with Ambassador Hisham S.A. Alqahtani (right) and Assistant Secretary for Middle East and African...
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One hundred kits containing laptop computers, tablets, and pocket wifi amounting to over P10 million were donated by the United States to schools in several provinces in the country. (Photo courtesy of the US Embassy in the Philippines) Through the United States Agency for International Development...
What comes after the election is trash, literally. In an Opinion piece by the Manila Bulletin , it is reported that 59,846 tons of solid waste per day were generated around the country, according to the DENR-Environmental Management Bureau (EMB). That’s prior to the 2022 election’s campaign...
OTTAWA, Canada -- Canada announced Thursday a lifting of restrictions on blood donations by gay and bisexual men that dates back to the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s. Instead, donors will be screened for high-risk sexual behaviors, regardless of gender or sexuality. "Under the new...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Department of Health (DOH) said that the country's Covid-19 vaccine wastage has been minimal so far— at less than two percent. “This is lower than the 10 percent that the WHO (World Health Organization) has given as a standard for the vaccine wastage all over...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines is still finalizing some arrangements after it pledged to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Myanmar and Papua New Guinea, an official of the Department of Health (DOH) said. "We are still negotiating with Myanmar... Iyong PNG pinag-uusapan pa (With PNG, it is...
The country will receive from Bahrain an additional 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, 40,000 doses of which are Pfizer’s pediatric vaccines, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has announced. Bahraini FM Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani and DFA Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (Photos...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has received P3.95 million worth of financial assistance, ambulance bikes, Covid-19 vaccines and other equipment from the MVP Group of Companies in a ceremony held at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Monday, April 4. General Andres Centino, Chief of Staff...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Tuesday, April 5, said the Philippines will be donating Covid-19 vaccines to Myanmar and Papua New Guinea soon. DOH Spokesperson Maria Rosario S. Vergeire said they are now coordinating with the two countries to successfully donate some of the country's Covid-19...
The Philippines has received 200 tons of rice from the Vietnamese government for the communities hard-hit by Typhoon Odette late last year, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Philippine Ambassador to Vietnam Meynardo LB. Montealegre with H.E. Nguyen Ming Hang, Assistant to the Foreign...
