The Department of Health (DOH) gave an advisory on Monday, July 3, about its plan to reduce tuberculosis treatment duration from six months to four months by the third quarter of the year. "The World Health Organization recommended adopting a four-month treatment regimen, which is two months of...
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte (Facebook) The Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Metro Rail Transit (MRT) should improve their service first before implementing a fare hike. This was Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte's simple retort to the train lines' administrators--the...
The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 423 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, July 2. This is the highest number of daily new cases in the past three days as per DOH's report. The total number of active cases is now at 6,925, which is a slight decrease from July 1's 6,945. Meanwhile, there was still no...
The auction of 11,600 megawatts of RE capacity scheduled this month will prove to be an "acid test" for the accelerated renewable energy (RE) development roadmap designed by the Marcos administration. The Department of Energy (DOE), which will administer the RE capacity tendering for the second...
The advertising agency handling the “Love the Philippines” tourism campaign has apologized to the Department of Tourism (DOT) for utilizing non-original or stock footages in the audio-visual presentation (AVP) of the agency. In a statement released by the DDB Philippines on Sunday, July 2, the...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. Camarines Sur 3rd district Rep. Gabriel Bordado Jr. is prodding President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to focus on improving the agriculture sector, specifically toward achieving food security. This, as the minority bloc congressman noted that the...
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has launched an investigation into the “Love the Philippines” tourism video after several netizens claimed that some of the stock footages utilized in it were shot in other countries. Earlier, the DOT changed its tourism slogan from “It’s more Fun in the...
Photos by ALI VICOY and the author LOVE THE PHILIPPINES Unveiled during the event, the latest ad campaign of DOT with the slogan, LOVE the Philippines After a decade of hearing about how it’s more fun in the Philippines, the Department of Tourism (DOT) has recently unveiled the next step of its...
The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 319 new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, July 1. The number of active cases is now at 6,945, leading to a total of 4,165,076 cases nationwide since the pandemic began. The health department also advised that the number of recoveries climbed to 4,091,647 with no new...
Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Secretary Renato U. Solidum Jr. led the country at the recently-concluded 12th Informal ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) in Brunei. Held last June 22, DOST said that the country expressed support for the development...
Filipinos may soon visit junta-ruled Myanmar after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) decided to lower the alert level status it had imposed in the said country since May 2021, an official said. *Department of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega (ANC/YouTube screenshot)* In an...
Seeking a successful implementation of the Ridge-to-Reef/Watershed Ecosystem Management (R2R/WEM) has been the center of a policy forum conducted by the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development of the Department of Science and Technology...
