After six months of the COVID-19 pandemic which has claimed so many lives around the world, Europe was reported out to try a new strategy it called “Lockdown Lite.” Some countries like Canada have already reported a second wave of the pandemic, while cases in the United States continued...
President Duterte, in a speech broadcast at the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 23, affirmed the country’s commitments to the Charter of the UN, to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and to the Arbitral Award of July 12, 2016. His statement...
Tourism Secretary Berna Romulo Puyat had a rather surprising report to the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriation last Thursday. Some 77 percent of Filipinos said they want to travel even during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a survey conducted by the department. Despite...
Israel normalized its relations with two Arab states – Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – last Tuesday in ceremonies held at the White House in Washington, DC, United States. They are the first Arab nations to establish relations with Israel since Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994....
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. called last Thursday for the construction of some 50,000 cell towers nationwide to ensure a strong Internet connection in any part of the country with the shift to online classes this coming school year as part of the government efforts against the...
For the first time in the last six months – the six months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe – Pope Francis held a general audience in the San Damaso courtyard of the Vatican Apostolic Palace last Wednesday. “After so many months, we resume our encounters face to face – not screen to...
The United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) released last Wednesday a study saying that an estimated 463 million children in the world today lack the equipment or electronic access to pursue distance learning this coming school year. The UN estimated that 1.5 billion children...
This may be one Christmas season different in so many ways from previous ones because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In Western Europe and the United States, where Santa Claus figures prominently as Father Christmas planners are already figuring out ways to bring him to children without endangering them...
Tomorrow, Tuesday, August 25, Israeli and German combat planes will make a symbolic flyover of the old Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany. The aerial tribute will highlight two weeks of a joint training program under which Israeli air forces trained on German soil for the first...
Because social distancing – one to two meters – is needed help prevent the spread of COVID-19, mass gatherings of all kinds are now banned – in sports arenas, in offices, in streets and parks, in buses and light rail coaches and stations. This is on top of face masks everywhere ...
There was good news for the millions of customers of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) this July. it announced that its customers would be paying P1.06 per kilowatt-hour less for the first six months of 2020 than what they used to pay for the first ...
In this season of uncertainties, one of the biggest is the safety of classes that are due to open late this month for the start of the 2020-21 school year. As of last Wednesday, the Department of Education said a total of 22,223,806 students...
