Philippine News , Foreign / Local News and Current Events

16/11/2020

MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake shook Masbate on Monday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. The quake happened at 2:35 p.m.,

16/11/2020

DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire reiterated Monday that carbon monoxide—a colorless and odorless gas—can cause irreversible and long-term health effects and can be fatal.

07/11/2020

“Many are staying since dami rin (businesses) opening up na,” Consul General Paul Raymund Cortes told GMA News Online.“They have (gained) confidence in the local economy. Events puwede na rin kasi; hotels are back… wedding banquets, too,” he added.

07/11/2020

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is all set to produce the cards for the national ID system as it printed samples on Friday.

07/11/2020

Among people who were never infected with the new coronavirus, a few adults - and many children - may have antibodies that can neutralize the virus, researchers reported on Friday in Science.

07/11/2020

ABOUT 12 years ago, there was information that was so wrong but had become such common knowledge that you wanted it thrown off the face of the earth. One of these was that the name for the ancient Filipino script was “alibata.” It was in everyone’s mouth: alibata. I learned the term in school ...

07/11/2020

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Friday partnered with telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. and Smart Communications Inc. to promote public

06/11/2020

An old photo of Rice and its price 1.90 pesos

Back then it was NGA or National Grains Authority due to Presidential Decree No. 1770, it renamed the NGA and established the National Food Authority (NFA).

edit: Yes indeed, before NGA, it was Rice and Corn Board (RICOB) and the Rice and Corn Administration (RCA). I only pointed out the "NGA" why was it called that time and not NFA is to avoid confusion.

06/11/2020

Saudi Arabia’s Labor Relation Initiative, which eases contractual restrictions on foreign workers, including Filipinos, and allows them to change jobs or leave the country without their employers’

05/11/2020

Nagsanhi ng dalawang scenario ng pagyanig ng lupa ang Bulkang Mayon sa nagdaang araw, dahilan para balaan ng state volcanologists ang mga nakatira malapit sa nasabing lugar sa Bikol.

05/11/2020

PRESIDENT Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte will have given the best Christmas gift ever to the nation if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a Covid-19 immunization vaccine before the year ends or in early 2021. If that happens, Digong’s popularity, already at an all-time high — accordin...

04/11/2020

New York, United States—The US presidential election is still up in the air, but one thing is for certain: the movement created by Donald Trump is alive and well, and more solid than pundits

04/11/2020

WASHINGTON — Democrat Joe Biden has won the vital battleground of Wisconsin, flipping a state won by Donald Trump in 2016 and boosting his own chances of winning the White House, US media

04/11/2020

MANILA, Philippines — A chocolate boobook, a native owl listed as a “vulnerable” and “near threatened” species, was found in Pasay after it fell on the roof of a car being driven by a

04/11/2020

= WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden on Wednesday neared the magic number of 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House with several battleground states still in

04/11/2020

An international survey said that the Philippines was one of the safest countries in the world as its citizens feel secure and have confidence in the police. Local rights groups, however, found the

04/11/2020

President Duterte yesterday signed an executive order that directs the Department of Health and the Department of Trade and Industry to ensure the affordability and accessibility of all types of coronavirus disease tests.

04/11/2020

Batangas City has been hailed as the “World’s Most Lovable City” and overall winner in this year’s edition of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s “We Love Cities” campaign.

04/11/2020

Residents of Northern Luzon should brace for strong winds and heavy rains brought by severe Tropical Storm Siony, which moved slowly yesterday over the Philippine Sea and was forecast to hit or graze the Batanes and Babuyan Islands tonight or Friday morning.

04/11/2020

TIWASAY ANG BUHAY:

Indigenous people lived
in a communal system
that was based on reciprocity
-- everyone sharing what they had
and everyone taking care of everyone else.

There was no hoarding,
thus no one in the tribe ever went without
and all prospered equally.

Food brought back by the hunters
was for the whole tribe.

If one hunter was particularly skilled
or successful,
there was no concept
of keeping more for himself
as a result.
Instead, he was given
a place of honor in the tribe.

Since there was no perception of scarcity,
except what the whole tribe experienced,
there was no need
for excessive accumulation
of personal holdings.

The tribes knew what they needed to do
to sustain themselves sufficiently.

Most had learned that sharing
and transferring
increased the value of what was given,

and accumulation beyond the point of enough
actually stopped the flow of resources.

When everyone benefited,
the individual benefited more.

Now, for most indigenous people,
one step out of their community
and into the modern world,

and they can't eat or find shelter
or live without money.

One day in the modern world
can wipe out thousands
of years of sustainability.

***
-
Anne Wilkerson Allen
Excerpt from "Grandmothers Counsel the World: Women Elders Offer Their Vision For Our Planet" by Carol Schaefer

04/11/2020

[As of 4:19 p.m. Philippine time] 24 electoral votes ang lamang ni Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden laban kay U.S. President Donald Trump matapos makuha ni Biden ang mga boto mula Maine.

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04/11/2020

[As of 3:56 p.m. Philippine time] 22 electoral votes ang lamang ni Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden laban kay U.S. President Donald Trump.

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04/11/2020

04/11/2020

President Donald Trump claims he has won the , says he is going to the US Supreme Court to stop all vote counting.

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04/11/2020

[As of 2:10 pm PH time] 10 electoral votes na lang ang lamang ni Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden laban kay US President Donald Trump matapos makuha ni Trump ang 38 electoral votes mula sa Texas.

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04/11/2020

Britain-based Smarkets exchange is giving Trump 55% odds of winning, up from 39% when polls opened. The odds on Trump had risen to 80% at one point. Biden's win odds on Smarkets have fallen to 45% from 61% earlier.

04/11/2020

OLONGAPO CITY –– Police here on Tuesday arrested the suspect in the killing of a 20-year-old woman whose body was found inside her house in this city on Monday. Ronnel Cabarrubias was arrested

04/11/2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden are battling it out for the White House, with polls gradually closing across the United States Tuesday and a long night of

04/11/2020

Against a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed more than 230,000 lives in the United States, a quick Biden triumph — dreamed of by some Democrats — looked unlikely with key states too close to call.

04/11/2020

“As to give highest importance to the thousands of votes cast in the elections, the strictest standards and procedures of law must be set in place if the PET becomes strongly and positively convinced to annul the results of the elections.”

04/11/2020

WASHINGTON — Polls in US battleground states began to close Tuesday, inching the contest between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden to its nail-biting conclusion, following a race fought in

04/11/2020

04/11/2020

An honest couple returned parcels of a package to its owner that a delivery motorcycle rider accidentally dropped along the way.

04/11/2020

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Tuesday issued a security alert for Filipinos in Vienna, urging them to stay indoors after a shooting attack near a synagogue killed two civilians and injured 15 others.

04/11/2020

According to an article on Stars and Stripes, Air Force 1st Lt. Rio Sarmiento, 26, was sworn into the us Space Force in September and became the new service’s first liaison officer deployed at sea with a Marine Expeditionary Unit.  

04/11/2020

Patay ang acting chairman ng Barangay Lingtan sa Bangued, Abra matapos siyang tambangan at pagbabarilin. Ang biktima, humalili lang bilang punong barangay matapos mapatay sa saksak ang dati nilang opisyal.

03/11/2020

It must have been a Freudian slip, but I did hear someone once refer to the Magellan expedition as the first “circumcision” of the world. This reminded me of the coat of arms conferred on Juan

03/11/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Tropical Storm Siony, internationally known as Atsani, started to intensify on Tuesday night as it hovered over the Philippine Sea, giving rise to the possibility that it

03/11/2020

Year after year it happens and year after year we throw good money after bad and next year we will surely do it again, simply because it is the way we Filipinos and our political leaders have done it for decades.

03/11/2020

Alas, Vietnam, a backwater communist country just 40 years ago, has overtaken us in terms of per capita income.