[ad_1] The Philippines registered 1,849 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) in the country, bringing the total number of infections to 521,413, according to the Department of Health (DoH). The DoH said it no longer identified the top five areas with the highest number of cases due to …
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[ad_1] In order not to influence the military’s ongoing investigation into its misassignment of alumni of the University of the Philippines (UP) as members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA), another senior officer in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP ) announced Friday that he was going on …
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[ad_1] Photo by Mackenzie Marco on Unsplash More than $ 4 billion in foreign portfolio investment (FPI) left the Philippines last year amid the coronavirus pandemic. The “hot money,” named for the ease with which these funds enter and exit an economy, yielded a net outflow of $ 4.24 billion …
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[ad_1] The Philippine Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved on January 28, 2020, the emergency use authorization for the Covid-19 AstraZeneca (ASZD1222) vaccine in the Philippines for immunization of adults. In a statement, AstraZeneca said that the vaccine has been approved for the active immunization of people over 18 years …
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[ad_1] The e-commerce sector could contribute P1.2 trillion to the economy by 2022, representing 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP), according to the government’s new e-commerce roadmap. This projection is double the 2020 baseline of P599 billion, or 3.4% of GDP, Commerce Secretary Ramón M. López said in the online …
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[ad_1] REUTERS The Department of Energy (DoE) and Australian-based research firm Star Scientific Ltd. signed an agreement to study hydrogen as a possible source of energy for the country’s energy needs. In a press release on Friday, the DoE said it had signed the memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Star …
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[ad_1] Terrafirma star CJ Perez. FILE PHOTO FOR CONSULTATION MANILA, Philippines – San Miguel is once again looking to bolster its ranks as it now plans to trade for former scoring champion and Rookie of the Year CJ Pérez. Beermen and Terrafirma reportedly struck a deal that would send Pérez …
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[ad_1] Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 29) – The family of Christine Dacera insisted on Friday that a DNA test be carried out on the tissue and organ samples mentioned in the recent medical-legal report of the Philippine National Police that said that the flight attendant died of natural causes …
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[ad_1] People walk into a GameStop store during the “Black Friday” sales in Carle Place, New York on November 25, 2011. (Reuters / Shannon Stapleton / File Photo) How does a small retail business that sells video games, worth less than $ 400 million in mid-2020, turn into a $ …
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[ad_1] PHOTO FOR CONSULTATION / ORBET OF JESUS FIXED MANILA, Philippines – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana praised a high-ranking official for taking a leave of absence pending an investigation into his office’s release of an inaccurate list of communist rebels from the University of the Philippines (UP ), but said …
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