[ad_1] Coach Brian Shaw (R) coaches Team Ignite players, including Filipino center Kai Sotto. NBAE / Getty Images / NBA G League Ignite MANILA, Philippines – Team Ignite coach Brian Shaw has done a good job of keeping his young players focused on the task at hand, even as a …
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[ad_1] The Asian Development Bank (ADB) sovereign loan program to the Philippines is expected to reach about $ 9.4 billion over the next three years, not including the up to $ 500 million the country is ready to purchase to purchase vaccines for the disease. coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). In a …
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[ad_1] MANILA – Senators mocked a Malacañang document that imposed “conditions” on Wednesday before certifying as urgent a bill that would strengthen the Anti-Money Laundering Law (AMLA). In the Palacio document sent to the office of Senate President Vicente Sotto III on December 15, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he …
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[ad_1] A Philippine doctor who led her community’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was killed along with her husband in Negros, a central Philippine island that has become the epicenter of targeted killings of activists, land rights defenders and other critics of the government. Dr. Mary Rose Sancelan and her …
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[ad_1] In this October 2019 photo, relatives of victims of the Duterte administration’s so-called extrajudicial executions in the war on drugs light candles to demand justice for their murdered loved ones. INVESTIGATOR / RICHARD A. REYES MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Wednesday called the recent …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – A 4.6 magnitude aftershock struck areas near Sarangani in Davao Occidental on Wednesday night. According to a bulletin from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the shaking occurred after the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck a large part of Mindanao early Wednesday morning. The …
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[ad_1] CEBU CITY – A prominent political clan in Cebu province has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against two doctors for the deaths of two of its members after they recovered from COVID-19. The Garcia family, led by Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, asked the Cebu City Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday …
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[ad_1] The body of a suspected drug dealer lies on the ground after an unidentified assailant killed him in Manila. Noel Celis, AFP / Archive MANILA – The Commission on Human Rights (HRC) said Wednesday that the Philippine government must “acknowledge” the report by the Office of the Prosecutor of …
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[ad_1] Health workers in protective suits carry a COVID-19 patient amid the coronavirus pandemic in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 13, 2020. Antara Photo / Fsauzan / via Reuters JAKARTA – Indonesia will provide free coronavirus vaccines to its citizens when the world’s fourth most populous nation begins its inoculation program, …
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[ad_1] MANILA, Philippines – The full resumption of face-to-face classes in Philippine schools in the first half of 2021 could increase the number of deaths from COVID-19 by 8 percent, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The increase in the death rate is compared to existing levels when all …
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