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Filipina recalls plight in Kabul
August 20, 2021, 2:16 pm
MANILA – When news got out that Taliban fighters had entered capital Kabul, the last government stronghold in Afghanistan, it dawned on Filipina worker Grace Gallora that she had to leave the country. It was August 14 when their office received an intelligence report that the Taliban had seized… Read More
Young Maguindanao farmer empowers youth via agriculture
August 19, 2021, 9:00 pm
MANILA – There is more to it than meets the eye. This is how 27-year-old farmer, June Rey Peñafiel from Maguindanao province, sees the future of farming in the Philippines while using the SL Agritech’s hybrid rice varieties as a better way to increase harvest and earn more. At a young age,… Read More
Magnitude 8 tremor, tsunami in Mindanao 45 years ago recalled
August 17, 2021, 8:32 pm
MANILA – The powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti and killed over 1,400 people on Sunday immediately sent vivid recollection of the devastating magnitude 8 tremor, followed by an equally destructive tsunami that hit Mindanao on Aug. 17, 1976, killing some 8,000 people and over… Read More
Breastfeeding a challenge for Covid-infected mothers
August 16, 2021, 8:08 pm
MANILA – The Quezon City government called on lactating mothers to donate breast milk as the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic takes its toll on families. On Sunday, the city government said it donated three liters of pasteurized breast milk through the QC Human Milk Bank (QCHMB) to… Read More
Oldest living Filipino Korean War vet marks 99th birthday
August 10, 2021, 5:56 pm
MANILA – Retired Maj. Max Young, the oldest living Filipino Korean War veteran, celebrated his 99th birthday last July 30, thanking God after he recovered from severe pneumonia, not once, but four times early this year. Young is concurrently the president of the Philippine Expeditionary Force to… Read More
LGUs continue to innovate vaccination system
August 10, 2021, 5:01 pm
MANILA – The national Covid-19 vaccination program’s road to 24,479,750 doses administered after 23 weeks was mostly through the efforts of local government units (LGUs). Vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. particularly lauded the creative ways of LGUs to entice their constituents to get… Read More
Celebrities help promote national vax program
August 6, 2021, 8:26 pm
MANILA – Celebrities and social media influencers are encouraging their followers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). During the celebration of 10 million fully vaccinated Filipinos at SM Megamall in Mandaluyong City on Thursday, actors Baron Geisler and Ella Cruz… Read More
PTRI to develop software for apparel prototyping
August 2, 2021, 6:32 pm
MANILA – By 2024, asking a tailor or fashion designer to create clothes may not need the person to be physically present at the shop. Through a software to be developed by the Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), one can even entrust the fitting to an avatar. The project of… Read More
Why August a significant month in PH history?
August 1, 2021, 11:22 am
MANILA – Among the 12 months of the year from the last decade of the past century to the present, August can be considered as one of the most significant months in Philippine history. Here's why, based on a partial compilation by former Philippine News Agency's writers of selected historical… Read More
‘Whole-of-nation' programs change ex-Reds' lives for better: OPAV
July 28, 2021, 2:58 pm
CEBU CITY – The successful whole-of-nation programs of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) have changed the lives of former Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) rebels who are now productive members of society after receiving… Read More
Congress used to open every 4th Monday of January instead of July
July 26, 2021, 11:37 am
MANILA – Filipinos who were born during the 1972-1981 martial law years and after the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution may be interested to know that the Philippine Congress used to open on the fourth Monday of January, instead of July like at present. This was because the 1935 Constitution, in… Read More
More opportunities with TESDA under Duterte admin
July 23, 2021, 7:55 pm
MANILA – The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has affected the global workforce. Thus, President Rodrigo Duterte made sure that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be assisted, whether they decide to go back abroad or opt to stay for good. In his 2020 State of the… Read More
BP2 allows CamSur family to leave pandemic-affected life behind
July 23, 2021, 1:42 pm
MANILA – Despite hesitations, a teenaged boy agreed to go back to Camarines Sur together with his mother and nine-year-old brother after realizing they will have a better future through the “Balik Probinsya, Bagong Pag-asa” (BP2) program of the national government. Jomari Regal, 17, was born… Read More
Budget carriers see Boracay rehab's worth
July 22, 2021, 6:55 pm
MANILA – Budget carriers Cebu Pacific (CEB) and AirAsia Philippines have seen the value of President Rodrigo Duterte’s order to close Boracay Island for six months for rehabilitation in 2018. "Ordering the closure of Boracay, to rehabilitate the beach and the ecosystem, was a good display of… Read More
Passion for farming is his key to success
July 12, 2021, 9:10 pm
MANILA – When 47-year-old George T. Pasion Jr. of Barangay San Marcos in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte decided to follow his father's footsteps in farming, he knew he would need to adapt to change in many aspects of rice farming. From planting to harvesting, Pasion was prepared to embrace every… Read More
QC children now allowed outdoors in designated safe zones
July 12, 2021, 4:24 pm
MANILA – Now that children aged 5 years and above are allowed to go out, Quezon City has designated 19 safe zones where they may be accompanied by their parents or guardians who must be fully vaccinated. The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)… Read More
PH population increases 15 times from just 7.6 million in 1903
July 11, 2021, 11:38 am
MANILA – Did you know that the Philippine population of 109,035,343 as of May 1, 2020 reflected an increase of nearly 15 times compared with just 7,635,426 in the first census conducted in 1903, or during the American regime? According to the 1994 Philippine Yearbook published in April 1995 by… Read More
Front-liners vow to stop Covid-19 despite difficulties
July 9, 2021, 5:59 pm
MANILA – Since the first day of the Covid-19 pandemic declaration in March last year, there has been one constant figure in all efforts to fight the dreaded disease: the medical front-liner. Faced with the enormous task of treating Covid-19 patients, they are not exempted from committing… Read More
Seafarers rely on faith, jabs for protection against virus
July 8, 2021, 4:29 pm
MANILA – The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has been a most trying time for seafarers and their families who rely on them. To overcome their fears, they have their gods to turn to and vaccines to protect them against the dreaded disease. Marco Manuel Tan, 25, had to overcome his… Read More
Archaeologists say ancient rock art sheds light on folk migration
July 6, 2021, 2:25 pm
TUGUEGARAO CITY – A directly-dated rock art created 3,500 years ago and found at the Callao Caves in Peñablanca town is believed to help answer queries on folk migration in Cagayan, archaeologists said. Dr. Andrea Jalandoni, who heads the Griffith University’s Place, Evolution and Rock Art… Read More
