When it begins its projected ₱95.5-billion Pasig River Expessway project, San Miguel Corp. (SMC) plans to also clean up and improve the flow of water along the Pasig River. It will be embarking on a project – cleanup of the Pasig – that has frustrated so many administrations and agencies of...
Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso of Manila has come up with an idea which he believes will help reduce the COVID-19 cases in the city – an incentive of P100,000 for any barangay which will record zero new cases for two months starting last Tuesday, September 1. The national...
The problem of disputed billings of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) came up last May when customers, under lockdown since March, received their bills for the previous months. The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) had issued a directive that distribution services like Meralco may use the rule on...
The government has been assisting our Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) who have decided to come home after many years of work in many countries. It is only fair that the government help our OFWs who have long been responsible for a major portion of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)....
The Philippines is involved in a number of disputes over territories in lands around the South China Sea (SCS). At the center of our dispute with China is its claim that it owns the entire territory covered by a nine-dash line looping down rom China, around the South China Sea, up the western...
“The wheels of justice continue to grind despite the COVID-19 pandemic,” Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Diosdado M. Peralta said Friday, as he announced the resolution of 825 cases even if members of the court had to deliberate on them through technology while working at home due to the...
One month after Anak kalusugan partylist Rep. Mike Defensor, chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, charged that the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) lost P153.76 billion from 2013 to 2018 due to overpayments and fraud, various irregularities have been...
Many Filipinos are among the thousands who volunteered for the Phase III trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi said. The tests are being undertaken by the Group 42 (G42) healthcare station at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center,...
Many nations are still grappling with the deaths and the health problems raised by the COVID-19 as the global death toll surpassed 800,000, with infections rising in Spain, Italy, Germany, in Western Europe, in South Korea in Asia, and in the United Sates, Brazil, and Mexico in the western ...
Amid the many problems the nation is now confronting in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic -- the continuing infections and deaths, the looming economic repercussions, and the impact on the personal lives of countless Filipinos – we must carry on with various other concerns and issues affecting...
The Philippines continues to rely greatly on its fellow Asian nations, notably China, in its ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was highlighted in a webinar co-hosted by the Philippine Association for Chinese Studies (PACS) and the Philippine Studies Center (PSC) of Jinan University this...
After Russia announced it has approved its anti-COVID-19 vaccine “Sputnik V” and will administer it to its teachers and health workers in October, China announced this week that it too has approved its vaccine, saying tests have shown it is “safe and...
