[ad_1] Published May 14, 2020, 10:00 p.m. By JAMES A. LOYOLA Bloomberry Resorts Corporation, which owns Solaire Resort & Casino and Jeju Sun Hotel & Casino, reported a 38 percent drop in unaudited consolidated net profit to $ 1.4 billion for the first quarter of 2020 from the $ 2.2 …
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[ad_1] TESTS. A medical worker takes a swab sample from an elderly resident who is unable to conveniently go out for a COVID-19 test at his home in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on May 14, 2020. Photo by STR / AFP WUHAN, China – Nervous residents of Wuhan’s Chinese …
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[ad_1] CEBU CITY – There was nothing new about how the chief general of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), Major General Debold Sinas, celebrated his birthday this year. Police officers also gave him an “early morning” or an early morning serenade in his rooms at PC Hills in …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – As if the government that shut down the country’s largest media company was not messy enough, its anti-insurgency task force launched into the fray making it a subject of communist propaganda. When the government ordered the ABS-CBN broadcast on May 5, journalists and various groups immediately …
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[ad_1] VOLATILE REGION. A Chinese militia ship identified by the Philippine Coast Guard during a patrol at Scarborough Shoal. File photo courtesy of the Philippine Coast Guard MANILA, Philippines – As the world struggles to beat the coronavirus pandemic, China has remained as aggressive as ever in the South China …
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[ad_1] GENEVA: The coronavirus may never go away, and populations will have to learn to live with it just as they did with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the World Health Organization (WHO) warned as it gets closer. the global number of deaths from the disease 300,000. Then and now …
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[ad_1] SAN ANTONIO, ZAMBALES – The Central Luzon Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) approved the Zambales provincial government’s request to extend the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) in the province for another 15 days or until May 31 . The IATF resolution, which was published on Wednesday (May …
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[ad_1] Evacuees follow the physical distancing rule as a precaution against the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, while inside evacuation centers where they remained during the Typhoon Ambo attack. Photo by Rachel Arnaiz, Visayas researcher CATARMAN, Northern Samar – Residents, who were forced to leave their homes …
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[ad_1] Israel’s new unity government will take office on Sunday, following an agreement by rivals Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz to end a political deadlock that has dragged on for more than 500 days. The ceremony, originally scheduled for Thursday night, was postponed hours before it was due to take …
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[ad_1] THE Supreme Court (SC) en banc will decide whether to consolidate the cases involving the ABS-CBN Corp. franchise on May 19. The members of the court will decide if it is viable to lump all the cases on the network’s franchise renewal into one case, The Manila Times learned …
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