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COVID-19 cases are showing no signs of slowing down in the Philippines, but the government has already eased up on certain restrictions to get the economy going again. That includes land travel between cities and provinces. Some people used the nearly three-month lockdown ...

A man who had been trapped inside the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for over 100 days because of the coronavirus pandemic is finally on his way home. Roman Trofimov, a tourist from the Eastern European country of Estonia, posted pictures of himself on ...

Moksha, a watering hole in San Juan, has dimmed its lights for good, another victim of the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic.Its managing partner, Marc Soong, bid goodbye to the 18-year-old neighborhood bar in a post on Facebook. By day, ...

While the Philippine national government is still following “expanded targeted testing” amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it's up to us to get ourselves tested. The Medical City - Ortigas in Pasig City launched their drive-thru COVID-19 testing center on Tuesday afternoon, July 7. ...

On Wednesday, July 8, barangay officials and police briefly detained journalist Howie Severino after he pulled down his face mask to take a sip of water. Severino had been biking in Quezon City and stopped at a bike shop on Mother Ignacia ...

Quezon City mayor Joy Belmonte has tested positive for COVID-19. In a post published on the Quezon City government Facebook page, Belmonte explained that parts of City Hall have been temporarily closed to undergo disinfection. According to Belmonte, the mayor is feeling well and ...

In a time of political turmoil, don’t be distracted from the ongoing pandemic around the world—especially when COVID-19 cases in the Philippines could potentially spike to almost 100,000 by the end of August. That’s in less than two months.The University of the ...

There is a possibility that the “superconsortium” made up of some of the country’s biggest conglomerates may drop its much-publicized proposal to rehabilitate the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. In a statement issued by the participating conglomerateson Tuesday, July 7, the superconsortium said it ...

The Philippines has reported its biggest spike in coronavirus infections in recent days as the government eases quarantine restrictions to revive the economy, raising the possibility its crowded capital may be placed back under a strict lockdown.The Department of Health reported a ...

San Miguel Corporation’s president and COO Ramon S. Ang posted on Facebook  that the company has opened Better World Edsa, a facility that houses the company’s own state-of-the-art COVID-19 RT-PCR testing laboratory for its 70,000 employees. Ang said it’s a way to ...

It was only a matter of time, but the next social function to be affected by the coronavirus pandemic is weddings. Like many other cultures, Filipinos are weddings-crazy, and because of the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, it might be a while ...

According to The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Philippines currently has the highest percentage of active coronavirus cases among the region’s 10 member nations.The data presented by ASEAN takes a comparative look at each country’s COVID-19 situation, and the results are relative to ...

The Philippines is taking part in the World Health Organization's (WHO) multi-country Solidarity Trial, which hopes to solve the COVID-19 puzzle.In his report to Congress earlier this week, President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed 361 patients from 26 different hospitals have enlisted in the clinical trials, which requires informed consent ...

The SSI Group posted a decrease in net income for the first quarter of 2020, largely because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the specialty retailer posted a net income of P110 million, a ...

The government says the Philippines needs at least P25 billion in new funding in order to increase the country’s COVID-19 testing capacity and to hire more contact tracers.According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, P10 billion of that amount will be dedicated to ...

As the world continues to struggle with the COVID-19 pandemic, another possible pandemic is on the horizon. Researchers in China have revealed the discovery of a strain of the H1N1 virus—which caused the 2009 pandemic—and according to the scientists, this new type ...

Last June 14th, Singapore’s Straits Times published a survey conducted by Singapore-based consumer research firm Milieu Insight that said out of 1,000 online Singaporean respondents, 71% of the respondents said that artists are considered the least essential as a profession or means ...

On June 28, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report tagging the Philippines as the country with the fastest-growing cases of COVID-19 in Western Pacific Asia. The country has outpaced Singapore and China in terms of the number of new cases ...

Cryptocurrency watchers will know that Binance is currently the largest crypto exchange in the world. Forbes estimates its trading volume reaches $11 billion daily. Top Story: 8 Filipino Actors Who Married into High SocietyFounded in China but now based in Tokyo, Japan, Binance is essentially ...

TV host-actor KC Montero and his wife were among the 121 people, which included foreigners, who were arrested at a high-rise restaurant and bar in Makati City yesterday, June 28.This is in violation of Republic Act 11332 (Mandatory Reporting of Notifiable Diseases ...