CEBU Island delivered the most number of votes in the country for former senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio, the frontrunners in the presidential and vice presidential races, respectively, Sugbo News said Friday, May 13, 2022.Cebu Province (including the highly urbanized cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu) is the most […]
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14 Covid deaths on first day of Love Month
AT LEAST 14 coronavirus disease (Covid-19) deaths have been reported in public and private hospitals in Cebu on the first day of February 2022, bringing the total number of deaths…
Cebu City’s active Covid cases grow tenfold in 3 days: EOC
IN JUST three days, the number of active coronavirus disease (Covid-19) cases in Cebu City has grown tenfold.Councilor Joel Garganera, deputy chief implementer of the Emergency Ope…
Cebu City records 0.29 percent daily positivity rate on Nov. 29, lowest for 2021 so far
CEBU City has recorded so far its lowest Covid-19 daily positivity rate (DPR) this year on Monday, November 29. The Emergency Operations Center (EOC) reported on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 that it had registered 0.29 percent DPR as only one of the 340 swabbed individuals tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. The […]
Eisai to Present Latest Data on Perampanel and E2730 at the 75th American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting
TOKYO, Nov 30, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Eisai Co., Ltd. announced today that the company will conduct a total of 42 poster presentations, including the latest data on its in-house discovered and developed anti-epileptic agent (AED) perampanel (product name: Fycompa) and in-house discovered and developed E2730, an investigational novel small compound for […]
Comelec expects 64M voters after Oct. 30 registration deadline
THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) is expecting up to half a million more people who will enlist before the registration period deadline on Oct. 30, which will bring the number of voters in next year’s polls to 64 million. During the Senate finance hearing on Monday, Comelec Chairman Sheriff M. Abas said the projected number of registrants for the month of Oct. is from 350,000 […]
NTC urged to intervene amid delays in mobile portability
THE National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) needs to step in and address the delays in implementing the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Act, according to Infrawatch PH, a public-policy think tank. It cited “process roadblocks” by some telecommunications companies and system glitches for the delay in rolling out number portability, which allows phone users to retail their phone numbers when […]
Showa Denko Announces Number of Shares to be Issued under Third-Party Allotment
TOKYO, Oct 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko K.K. (SDK; TSE:4004) hereby announces that, in connection with the issuance of new shares by way of the Third-Party Allotment, which its board of directors resolved on August 23, 2021 concurrently with the resolution on the issuance of new shares by way of […]
Housing logs highest number of constructions valued at P43.79B
AMID the pandemic, it has been business as usual for construction activities. In the second quarter of this year, the Philippines logged a total of 38,389 constructions valued at P84.36 billion, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority. The increase in construction activities indicates an annual expansion of 114.1 percent, faster than the previous quarter’s annual […]
Showa Denko Announces the Number of New Shares to be Issued
TOKYO, Sep 8, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Showa Denko K.K. (TSE:4004) hereby announces that, relating to the issuance of new shares of its common stock which its board of directors resolved on August 23, 2021, the number of shares to be issued by exercise of the option to purchase additional newly issued […]
Rural health unit lockdown lifted in 8 days
THE lockdown implemented by the Municipal Government of Asturias affecting its own rural health unit (RHU) proved to be effective in curbing the number of active Covid-19 cases in the town. Asturias Mayor Antonio Pintor told SunStar Cebu that he ordered a lockdown of their RHU after its head nurse got infected with the coronavirus […]
CCTO apprehends over 9,000 violators in July 2021
The Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) recorded 9,646 apprehensions in July 2021. A total of 636 vehicles were clamped during daytime and overnight clamping operations and 284 motorcycles, 10 e-bikes, three private vehicles and one trailer truck were impounded due to no license, no registration or expired registration, among others. Paul Gotiong, CCTO information officer […]
CCPO: Most protocol violators come from Covid-19 hot spots
THE Cebu City Police Office (CCPO) has found out that most of the health protocol violators arrested by the authorities came from those barangays with a high number of Covid-19 cases. CCPO director Col. Josefino Ligan released its three-day comparative data from July 29 to 31, 2021, days after the executive order for the reimplementation […]
DITO says it now has 2 million subscribers nationwide
TELECOMMUNICATIONS service provider DITO Telecommunity Corp. said on Tuesday it has connected two million subscribers in less than five months since its commercial launch in March. “[I]n less than five months after our official launch, we have just reached two million subscribers, covering around 200 cities nationwide,” DITO said in a statement posted on its […]
Cebu City to reintroduce liquor ban, adjust curfew
THE Cebu City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has proposed implementing stricter measures in the entire city to curb the rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases. The EOC, together with Acting Mayor Michael Rama and Inter-Agency Task Force-Visayas Chief Implementer retired general Melquiades Feliciano, met on Sunday, July 25, 2021, to discuss the Covid-19 situation […]
Editorial: ‘Play it safe’
Viruses and their ninja moves. There are 11 Sars-CoV-2 mutations that governments and public health experts in the world are closely monitoring, but most potentially disastrous is the Delta variant, first identified in India in December 2020. The same variant reportedly caused 10 percent the Covid-19 cases in the US, and is starting to hit […]
Editorial: A shift in focus
Another one million doses of the Sinovac vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) arrived Thursday, June 10, 2021, at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The new deliveries form part of the 11,058,000 doses that the Philippines expects to arrive this month alone. As of Thursday noon, the total number of doses delivered to the country […]
A Leading Property Project Management Company in China, CENTRAL CHINA MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED Successfully Listed on Main Board of SEHK
HONG KONG, May 31, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – CENTRAL CHINA MANAGEMENT COMPANY LIMITED (“CCMGT” or the “Company”, stock code: 9982.HK), a leading property project management company in China, is officially listed and commenced trading on the Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“SEHK”) today. CCMGT debuted in the […]
8,000 new COVID-19 cases bring total active cases to 53,770
The Department of Health (DoH) on Friday said there are 8,748 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) bringing the total number of active cases in the country to 53,770. This is the first time that the number of active cases breached the 8,000 mark since May 1. In a statement released on Friday, […]
The Release of 2021 AI Most Influential Scholar (2000 Scholars) Annual List: the US Takes the Lead, Closely Followed by China and Germany
BEIJING, May 18, 2021 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – The AMiner team of Tsinghua University released “2021 AI Most Influential Scholar Annual List” (“AI 2000 List” for short). The AI 2000 List aims to select the most influential and active top-cited scholars from the field of artificial intelligence worldwide over the past ten years […]