[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) President Dante Gierran is being “too cautious” to expedite the agency’s payment of its more than $ 1 billion debt to the Philippine Red Cross (PRC ), Senator Richard Gordon said Tuesday. Gordon surmised that Gierran is cautious because he fears …
Read More »Vietnam prepares devastated midlands for typhoon
[ad_1] Fishing boats seen in port after returning to avoid Typhoon Molave in Da Nang city, Vietnam, October 26, 2020. Tran Le Lam / VNA via REUTERS. HANOI – Vietnamese authorities fought Tuesday to get more than half a million people out of harm’s way before a powerful typhoon that …
Read More »Police in Grab driver altercation faces summary hearing – IAS
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The police officer involved in an altercation with Grab’s driver Florence Norial will face summary hearings for criminal cases, the head of the Internal Affairs Service (IAS) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) revealed Tuesday. . In a text message to journalists, the IAS chief prosecutor, …
Read More »Dollars flood PH’s economy thanks to external government loans and import costs fall
[ad_1] FILE – A man counts US dollar bills at an exchange office in Manila on Oct. 26, 2006. The Philippine central bank said Thursday it was studying whether to allow banks to buy dollars above currently prescribed limits. The peso, trading at 49.895 to the dollar around noon Thursday, …
Read More »SC affirms prison sentence for husband found guilty of extramarital affair
[ad_1] The symbol of the Supreme Court in Manila. (File Photo LYN RILLON / Philippine Daily Inquirer) MANILA, Philippines – Infidelity or having an extramarital affair is considered “psychological violence,” said the Supreme Court in a decision that upheld the prison sentence of up to eight years against a husband …
Read More »Duterte defends Duque again: he did not steal money
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte once again defended Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, saying the latter did not steal money. “Yung Congress knew i-suspend yes Duque, I said ‘What for?’ … On what basis would I base my decision? [on]? “Duterte said in a public speech broadcast Monday. …
Read More »Chamber prepared to transmit to the Senate the proposed P4.5T budget for 2021
[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives is transmitting to the Senate on Tuesday its approved version of the General Appropriations Bill (GAB) of 2021 or the proposed national budget of P4.5 trillion for next year. Spokesman Lord Allan Velasco said the record budget was designed to further strengthen …
Read More »OCTA Investigation: Red Cross Trial Detention Halved COVID-19 Cases Reported in NCR, Nearby Regions
[ad_1] CUT COSTS. A Red Cross worker takes a swab sample from a patient at the Philippine Red Cross laboratory in Mandaluyong City in April. – APPLICATION PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – A group of experts monitoring the COVID-19 situation in the country has urged the government to resolve the impasse …
Read More »18 LGUs Classified as High Risk COVID-19 Areas – OCTA Research
[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: An undated scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (yellow), also known as novel coronavirus, the virus that causes COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the US, Emerging from the surface of cells (blue / pink) grown in the laboratory. NIAID-RML / Prospectus via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS …
Read More »Duterte wants a government-to-government agreement on the purchase of the COVID-19 vaccine
[ad_1] President Rodrigo Roa Duterte speaks to the people after holding a meeting with the core members of the Interagency Working Group on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) at Matina Enclaves in Davao City on October 26, 2020. ARMAN BAYLON / PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte directed the …
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