KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 23, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Central Global Berhad (“Central Global” or “Group”), a producer of industrial masking tapes and label stocks as well as general building contractor, will continue to keep a tight rein on cashflow in order to ensure business sustainability following the government’s decision to lengthen the […]
SOME of our cities in Cebu are graduating by the hundreds drug dependents under their community-based drug rehabilitation program (CBDRP). By graduates, we mean individuals who have weaned themselves off illegal drugs for at least six months, while being placed under sporadic surprise drug tests within the required period. These individuals were either in the […]
TOKYO, Jul 19, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Kalle Rovanpera has become the youngest driver to ever win a round of the FIA World Rally Championship after he and co-driver Jonne Halttunen secured victory on Rally Estonia: the fifth win in a row for the TOYOTA GAZOO Racing World Rally Team. At 20 […]
MORE than half a million eligible individuals in Central Visayas have been inoculated against Covid-19 as of Thursday, July 15, 2021. Dr. Mary Jean Loreche, spokesperson for the Visayas Covid-19 Vaccination Operations Center (VVOC), on Friday, July 16, reported that 542,229 individuals from the region have received their first dose, while 210,407 of them are […]
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter HEALTH authorities on Monday night said 256 more people have been infected with more contagious variants of the coronavirus, though most of them have either died or recovered. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario S. Vergeire did not immediately reply to a text message asking why the cases had not been […]
THE government has reached half of its 500,000 daily Covid-19 vaccination target as inoculations further accelerated and averaged 254,141 in the last seven days, the Department of Health (DOH) and National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 reported Monday, July 5, 2021. First dose inoculations in the country went up to 8,839,124 as of July 4, […]
SIXTEEN residents of Mandaue City, who have received at least one dose of a vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), have been found positive for the virus, according to the local contact tracing team. Lawyer Julius Ceasar Entise, head of the Mandaue City Contact Tracing Team, said the 16 individuals underwent swab tests to fulfill […]
DUBAI, Jun 23, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – ILGON is a new Ethereum-based blockchain platform with its own cryptocurrency, positioning itself as an ecosystem with endless possibilities. At first blush, the project seems perfectly legitimate. It has a team, an exchange listing, and even a few videos, though in Hungarian, which is no […]
THE PALACE confirmed Monday that over P18 billion from the second stimulus package, known as Bayanihan II, remains unused, following calls by senators to spend the hundreds of billions of pesos allotted for the pandemic response measure before it expires this month. “Mayroon pa tayong P18.4 billion or 13% na hindi pa nao-obligate (We have […]
The Justice department has approved the request of the imprisoned wife and son of a farmer who had been a political prisoner for 16 years and who died of cardiac arrest on Sunday to attend his wake on Friday. In a statement, Fides Lim, spokesperson of Kapatid, a support group for families and friends of […]
By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza and Vann Marlo M. Villegas, Reporters THE GOVERNMENT would probably ease the lockdown in Manila, the capital and nearby cities and provinces this week on decreasing coronavirus infections, according to the presidential palace. Metro Manila and the provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna and Cavite would likely revert to a general […]
By Vann Marlo M. Villegas, Reporter A GROUP of researchers from the country’s premier university on Sunday backed a plan to ease the lockdown in Metro Manila as coronavirus infections continue to fall. “We support that because the situation in the National Capital Region is improving,” Guido David, a research fellow at the OCTA Research […]
I don’t think that just because one has been vaccinated, one can already do anything without any care in the world. In the United States, where millions have already been vaccinated, questions were raised on the logic of continuing to wear face masks in crowded places. But I prefer the gradual lifting of restrictions before […]
THE Philippine government may soon allow vaccinated seniors to go outside of their residences for non-essential activities, the Trade department said on Monday as the country aims to further reopen its economy. Trade Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said the government is eyeing to ease restrictions imposed on seniors who have been fully vaccinated. “We just […]
THE proposal of Cebu City Councilor Alvin Dizon to penalize the sale of vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has been referred to the law committee for review. The proposed ordinance called “The Anti-Sale of Covid-19 Vaccines Ordinance in the City of Cebu” also penalizes the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and prohibits the sale of […]
THE recent lifting of travel restrictions in the National Capital Region (NCR) Plus bubble means residents in Metro Manila and its neighboring provinces are now allowed to undertake point-to-point leisure travel to areas under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ). This is covered by Resolution 118-A that the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of […]
President Rodrigo R. Duterte is expected to decide soon whether to end a visiting forces agreement (VFA) with the United States, the Philippine ambassador to the US said on Friday. Philippine Ambassador to the US Jose Manuel G. Romualdez said the two countries had spent a lot of time discussing how to improve the military pact on the deployment of troops for war games. He said an improved version […]
SEN. Franklin Drilon sets out a preemptive strike at what will most likely be a “huge campaign kitty,” the 2022 national budget, but specifically points to what could be the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) proposed P28 billion funding. Drilon said he’d oppose the budget “tooth and nail.” “We should […]
Whether or not Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Guillermo Eleazar’s dressing down of Police Master Sgt. Hensie Zinampan in public was mere show, it may help to look at the context that charged the official’s frustration. It wasn’t also the first time that he did so on an erring cop—he did the same, and even […]
A YUGOSLAV national accused of child prostitution and sexual abuse was arrested in the town of Compostela in Cebu by operatives of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) Central Visayas on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The arrest made on Steve Sinisa Hidosan was based on a search warrant issued by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) […]