[ad_1] Joe Biden —REUTERS WASHINGTON – If Democrat Joe Biden wins the U.S. presidency, a divided Congress may prevent him from enacting important priorities such as expanding health care, fighting climate change and providing aid to millions whose lives have been affected by the coronavirus. With millions of ballots yet …
Read More »Trump’s demands unlikely to affect US election outcome, experts say
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump speaks during election night in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, early November 4, 2020 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP). WILMINGTON, Del – President Donald Trump called in his lawyers to shore up his bleak prospects for re-election, but legal …
Read More »PhilHealth pays additional P100M to Red Cross for COVID-19 testing
[ad_1] Former director of NBI now director of PhilHealth Dante Gierran. File photo from INQUIRER.net / CATHY MIRANDA MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) has launched another wave of payments to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC), to offset the rising costs of testing reaching overseas Filipino workers …
Read More »Duterte credits police and military after PH named 12th safest country
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte said Thursday that the police and military must be accredited after the Philippines was recognized as one of the safest countries in the world. Duterte was reacting to a report by Washington-based analytics firm Gallup that ranked the Philippines as the 12th safest …
Read More »‘It looks like money,’ says Duterte of the PRC amid PhilHealth’s debt problem
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte called the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) “mukhang pera” (greedy) Thursday night after the humanitarian organization resumed its COVID-19 testing services following payment from the government of half of its debt of almost P1 billion. Duterte delivered the jab at a meeting with cabinet …
Read More »CHR investigates the murder of an EJK survivor inside the hospital
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Human Rights Commission (CDH) has assured that it has already sent a team to investigate the homicide inside a hospital in the Rizal province of a man who was recovering after surviving an alleged extrajudicial murder attempt. CHR spokeswoman Jacqueline De Guia said Thursday that …
Read More »In China, bewilderment and contempt for unsolved US elections
[ad_1] US President Donald Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, speaks on the first results of the 2020 US Presidential elections in the East Room of the White House in Washington, United States, on 4 November 2020. REUTERS / Carlos Barria BEIJING – Chinese …
Read More »Trump supporters protest outside Arizona polling place
[ad_1] Supporters of United States President Donald Trump gather in front of the Maricopa County Election and Tabulation Center (MCTEC) to protest the first results of the 2020 presidential election, in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 4. 2020. REUTERS / Edgard Garrido PHOENIX – A crowd of Donald Trump supporters, some …
Read More »Expect a rainy Friday due to TS Siony, ITCZ - Pagasa
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – It’s going to be a cloudy and humid Friday in most of the country due to severe tropical storm Siony and the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ), according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) . The state meteorological bureau bulletin on Thursday afternoon …
Read More »Fear of rejection by antitrust body pushes PLDT to withdraw SkyCable offer
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. is no longer competing for SkyCable Corp. of ABS-CBN Corp., one of the country’s largest cable TV companies, fearing the antitrust regulator will reject the deal. . PLDT President and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan said on Thursday (November 5) that the group …
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