President Duterte said he would "personally see to it" that Senator Richard Gordon gets slapped with a criminal charge, possibly malversation, for allegedly failing to return some P86 million worth of public funds. President Rodrigo Duterte (left) and Senator Richard Gordon (Photos from...
Two foreign nationals and a Filipino cohort were collared in a buy-bust operation in General Trias, Cavite, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said Tuesday evening, Sept. 21. PDEA Director General Wilkins M Villanueva said the operation also resulted in the confiscation of some P3.4...
DITO Telecommunity, the country’s newest telco player, this morning (Sept. 21) announced it has hit the three million subscriber mark. Dito-Telecommunity On the average, the telco is hauling in new subscribers at the rate of 20,000 daily but has accelerated to over 33,000 per day in the last 12...
The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is now on track for the nationwide expansion of the massive tree-planting project, Annual Million Trees Challenge (AMTC), nearly five years after it was launched. On Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021, MWSS will hold the Annual Million Tree Challenge...
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,...
