(File photo) The Department of Health (DOH) said there is no need yet to impose strict travel measures for travelers coming from China amid the increasing number of Covid-19 infections in the east asian country. “First, the DOH doesn't think that it is required or it is needed already that we...
PARIS, France - An explosion of Covid-19 cases in China as the country lifts its zero-Covid measures could create a "potential breeding ground" for new variants to emerge, health experts warn. China announced this week that incoming travelers would no longer have to quarantine from January 8, the...
A passenger wearing protective gear is seen at a train station in Beijing on December 28, 2022. Noel CELIS / AFP BEIJING, China -- The United States is the latest in a growing number of countries to impose restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing abruptly removed a major impediment to...
Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian said Wednesday that China is ready to extend assistance to the country Filipinos in Mindanao are bearing the brunt of recent flash flood. In a statement, Huang said he sympathizes to the victims in the southern Philippine region as the tragedy,...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has urged the Department of Health (DOH) to monitor the COVID-19 situation in China following its government’s decision to lift their border restrictions starting next month. “I urge our health authorities, the Department of Health, as chairman of the Senate...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) said it is providing information to President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. about the Covid-19 situation in other countries aside from the Philippines. “We apprised the President and his staff about the situation not just in the Philippines but also in...
CBS China Bank Savings, the retail lending arm of China Banking Corporation, is now one of the few Philippine thrift banks that boast of a digital on boarding app. This comes after the bank rolled out CBS GO, its mobile app to boost financial inclusion and speed up the shift to a cash-lite economy....
HONG KONG, China -- Hong Kong is aiming to reopen its border with China by mid-January, city leader John Lee announced on Saturday after returning from meetings in Beijing. The border has been effectively shut for nearly three years while China enforced a zero-Covid strategy of snap lockdowns,...
BEIJING, China -- Half a million people in a single Chinese city are being infected with Covid-19 every day, a senior health official has said, in a rare and quickly censored acknowledgement that the country's wave of infections is not being reflected in official statistics. China this month has...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday he will seek China's help in persuading North Korea to sit down for talks after Pyongyang's slew of missile tests ratcheted up tensions. Blinken, who plans to visit Beijing in early 2023 in the first trip by the top US...
CHONGQING, China -- Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of Covid cases. The virus is surging across the vast Asian nation in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. And with...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States is flouting international trade rules by labeling imports from Hong Kong as those from China, the World Trade Organization ruled Wednesday, an outcome that Washington rejects. The WTO ruling addressed a decision under former president Donald Trump's...
