The Philippines was elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for the period 2021-2022 during a vote by acclamation on Monday, June 7, 2021. Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Enrique Manalo. (PMNY/DFA)...
A group of health workers hailed the reversal of a circular by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM), which raised the salary of entry-level nurses but consequently demoted long-serving senior nurses. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) While the DBM Circular No. 2020-4 issued on July 17, 2020,...
Billions of investments in nature are needed to help countries avoid another pandemic while also generating revenues, according to biodiversity financing strategist BIOFIN Philippines. In a statement, the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN), a project of the Department of Environment and...
United States Senate Majority Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer (D-NY) has asked US President Joe Biden to commit 5 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the Philippines, citing, among others, the “immeasurable contributions” of Filipino-American frontline healthcare workers in the battle...
(MB FILE PHOTO) The Filipino Nurses United (FNU) said that government nurses "will no longer be demoted" after it triumphed against the "unjust demotion provision" of a circular from the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) that supposedly affects their employment status. “Filipino Nurses...
Due to the increasing climate risks, Filipinos rely on voluntary adaptative strategies such as permanent and circular migration as well as involuntary adaptive strategies such as distress migration and systematic relocation, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)-Philippines said in a...
(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The Department of Health (DOH) expressed gratitude to the United States government for its decision to donate some of its surplus COVID-19 vaccines to the Philippines and other countries. "Well nakuha natin yung magandang balita na iyan at tayo naman ay nagagalak at...
Senator Panfilo Lacson intimated on Saturday, June 5, a possible link between the United States' incoming vaccine donations to the Philippines and the visiting forces agreement (VFA) between the two countries. Senator Panfilo 'Ping' Lacson (Senate of the Philippines) In an interview over radio...
The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) has partnered with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in a bid to boost the country’s emergency response and disaster preparedness. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) In a virtual ceremony on Friday, June 4, PhilSA Director General Joel Joseph...
The United States is just awaiting the decision of President Duterte regarding the fate of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), US Embassy Charge d’Affaires John Law said Friday. (via United States Embassy in Manila website) Law said both the US and Philippine sides spent weeks of “productive...
The United States Embassy in Manila on Friday confirmed the inclusion of the Philippines among the priority countries to receive its share from the initial batch of 25 million doses of coronavirus vaccines that the US intends to donate globally. United States Embassy Charge d'Affaires John Law...
A member of Batch 2022 of the Philippine Science High School - Central Luzon Campus (PSHS-CLC) in Clark, Pampanga has been recognized as the best delegate in the United Nations’ oldest simulations for students in the world "for exhibiting critical thinking, effective communication, and diplomatic...
