Health

[ad_1] The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is rife with corruption and no construction job begins without money changing hands, President Duterte said Wednesday. It did not provide details of the irregular transactions, but said the problem was serious. “Projects, project engineers, all that, the way of passage, …

[ad_1] The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) stopped testing for COVID-19 for the government after the Philippine Health Insurance (PhilHealth) failed to pay the P930 million it owed for previous testing. The People’s Republic of China, led by its president, Senator Richard Gordon, said it will complete testing of the submitted …

[ad_1] The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) said Thursday it will halt testing for Covid-19 by the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation after the state health insurance agency failed to settle its outstanding balance of more than 1,000. millions of pesos. The People’s Republic of China continues to face challenges with PhilHealth …

[ad_1] The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the food agency of the United Nations, was born in the aftermath of the disaster. Three-quarters of a century later, another global scourge has made its mission more relevant to the world at large. I won’t deny it: when I took over as …

[ad_1] The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) no longer accepts swab tests for coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) that is attributable to Philippine Health Insurance Corp.(PhilHealth) because the state insurer has not paid the P930 million it owes to the agency. A Red Cross health staff collects a sample by rubbing the …

[ad_1] China’s anti-Covid-19 Sinovac vaccine has been approved by the Vaccine Expert Panel (VEP) for clinical trials in the Philippines, an official with the Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday. In an online Kapihan Forum with reporters covering the Department of Health (DOH), FDA Director General Eric Domingo said …

[ad_1] Genting Cruise Lines is pleased to announce that Dream Cruises will be the first cruise brand to restart service in Singapore with World Dream as it makes its home port debut from November 6. World Dream will also be the newest cruise ship built to the homeport in Singapore, …

[ad_1] President Rodrigo Duterte denounced what he said was massive corruption in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). President Rodrigo Roa Duterte chairs a meeting with the main members of the Interagency Working Group on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) before his talk with people at the Malacañang Golf …

[ad_1] RCBC Chief Economist Michael Ricafort (left) and ING Bank Senior Economist Nicholas Mapa MANILA – Continued job losses among Filipino Overseas Workers (OFW) are expected to hurt remittance inflows to the Philippines until next year, with this year’s contraction expected to reach as high as 10 percent. On Thursday, …

[ad_1] JAKARTA / MANILA – Indonesia overtook the Philippines to become Southeast Asia’s new pandemic focus on Thursday (October 15), as it struggles to contain mounting Covid-19 infections with new cases reaching 4,000 cases a day. With 4,411 new cases in the past 24 hours, Indonesia’s count reached 349,160 on …