[ad_1] PHOTO: Screenshot of the NUS FASS website SINGAPORE – A 30-year-old man who pleaded guilty to abusing his elderly mother by starving her to death and hitting her in the groin was jailed for 56 weeks on Tuesday (March 23), when more details emerged about the physical and mental …
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[ad_1] This tatken photo from Sept. 13, 2016 shows Philippine airline planes parked while another takes off at Manila International Airport. Ted Aljibe, AFP / Archive MANILA – More international flights to and from Manila have been canceled due to the new government restriction that reduced international arrivals to the …
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[ad_1] FOREIGN VESSELS The Philippine military says it has not yet finished counting the Chinese ships still on the Juan Felipe reef off Bataraza, Palawan. The photo taken on March 7 shows some of the 220 Chinese ships anchored in disputed waters in the South China Sea. —REUTERS MANILA, Philippines …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Judicial and Lawyers Council (JBC) has endorsed Supreme Court (SC) associate justices Alexander Gesmundo, Ramon Paul Hernando, and Estela Perlas-Bernabe as candidates to succeed Supreme Court Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta, who will retire. According to JBC’s letter to President Rodrigo Duterte, Peralta will optionally retire …
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[ad_1] Legally forcing dozens of workers to take a hit raises huge legal and moral questions. Ministers have previously called similar ideas “discriminatory”. The Cabinet subcommittee document warns that a “large” number of welfare workers may resign if the change is made, and that successful human rights lawsuits could be …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health (DOH) has given hospitals until Wednesday to administer all of their available AstraZeneca doses, or they will be withdrawn from the market and delivered to other hospitals with increasing cases of COVID- 19. The Undersecretary of Health, María Rosario Vergeire, said that …
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[ad_1] FINANCIAL tech startup NextPay received $ 125,000 in funding from Silicon Valley-based Y Combinator, becoming the fifth Filipino startup to receive endorsement from the accelerator. The funds will be used to expand its digital solutions for payments, credit and personal cash management, the company said in a statement Monday. …
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[ad_1] Things, I think, may be about to get a lot better. Suddenly, we are on the verge of receiving COVID-19 vaccinations in our offices. It seems that the pandemic started a lifetime ago, but little more than a year has passed. And it seems like yesterday (and an eternity …
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[ad_1] LONDON – Long-awaited preliminary data from end-stage trials in the United States of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by England’s Oxford University and British-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca show that the two-dose injection is highly effective in all ages and ethnicities. groups, stopped hospitalization in all cases and did not increase …
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[ad_1] The flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) will air transport the remaining 400,000 doses of Sinovac vaccines from Beijing on Wednesday, March 24, 2021, to complete the one million doses that China has donated to the Philippines’ fight against contagion. PAL will send a Boeing 777 aircraft, which will be …
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