BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thailand has administered more than 40 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine so far, according to official figures released on Sunday. Nearly 40 percent of the country's population have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, while 18 percent have been fully vaccinated,...
More than 400,000 workers from the construction and manufacturing industries will be inoculated starting Wednesday, Sept. 8, during the launching of the Department of Labor and Employment's (DOLE) special vaccination program in Manila. A Manila resident receives a coronavirus vaccine at the...
Three suspected drug pushers were arrested when they yielded some P3.4 million worth of shabu during a buy-bust in Makati City on Friday night, Sept. 3. Nabbed were Ariel Morilla, 42; Kimberly Bonanza, 32; and Virginia Tuazon, 41. Seized from them were 500 grams of shabu. The operation stemmed from...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Britain will send four million COVID-19 vaccine doses to Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Friday, as his country raced to halt a deadly virus outbreak. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines (AFP) The Australian leader said the planes delivering Pfizer vaccine doses were...
President Duterte has acknowledged the unsavory milestone of having recorded over two million coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, but it didn't take him long to find a reason to commend Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III over a supposed silver lining. President Duterte...
The Manila city government vaccine deployment reached the two million mark on Wednesday (Sept. 1). (Manila Public Information Office photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The city government through the Manila Health Department (MHD) has administered a total of 2,009,171 COVID-19 vaccines since the vaccination...
UNITED NATIONS -- Nearly 10 million children in Afghanistan are in desperate need of humanitarian aid, and the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is appealing for about $200 million to respond to their needs, said a UN official on Monday. A displaced Afghan child at a makeshift camp of Internally...
JERUSALEM, Israel -- Over two million Israelis have received the third booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the state's Ministry of Health said on Sunday. So far, 2,013,080 people in Israel have received the booster shots after the third dose campaign in the country began on Aug. 1. Teachers,...
Combined elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) arrested an alleged drug pusher on Friday, Aug. 27, who yielded P3.4 million worth of suspected methampetamine hydrochloride (shabu) in a buy-bust operation in Quezon City. (PDEA photo)...
Joint teams of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) destroyed a total of P20.23 million worth of marijuana plants in a raid on eight plantation sites during their August 24 to 25 operation in Tinglayan Kalinga. PDEA spokesperson Derrick Arnold...
Combined elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) arrested Wednesday, August 25 four pushers and seized P3.4 million worth of shabu during a buy-bust operation in a parking lot of a mall in Alabang, Muntinlupa. PDEA spokesperson Derrick...
A modern government media facility will soon rise in the Visayas after an allocation of ₱ 200 million has been approved by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM). Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File photo/PCOO) Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar...
