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No place to dump infectious wastes
By Fernan Angeles THE Philippines doesn’t have an appropriate place to dump 5,000 tons of medical wastes generated on a monthly basis from the time COVID-19 hit the country. Instead, garbage of this type have been dumped in sanitary landfills and handled by inadequately-equipped solid waste management personnel whose health are compromised amid a highly-infectious…
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Police checkpoint
Motorists bound for Bacolod City pass through a police checkpoint during the first Sunday lockdown of the general community quarantine in Bacolod City September 6.
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Facebook blocks man’s planned end-of-life broadcasts
LE PECQ, France — Facebook on Saturday blocked live broadcasts from a chronically ill bed-ridden man who appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for a medically-assisted death and who wanted to show what he expects will be a painful end to his life after he announced that he was stopping all food and drink. Prostrate…
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Mariveles cooperatives
Municipal administrator Angel ‘Boboy’ Peliglorio (center) of Mariveles, Bataan assures officers of the cooperatives that Mayor Jocelyn P. Castañeda will extend support to the members of the cooperative to boost their livelihood programs.
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Live action movie review: Mulan
I’ve been looking forward to the big screen debut of Mulan ever since it was announced by Disney. The trailer looked very promising, albeit lacking in the music and humor of the animated film, but it had the potential to deliver something extraordinary. After finally watching it, I could safely say that Disney did a…
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Scottish nurse is crowned Miss Hong Kong 2020 in ‘shock’ win
A British-born model who lacks fluency in Cantonese has shocked many after being crowned Miss Hong Kong 2020. Lisa Marie Tse, 25, who was born in Scotland in 1995, was awarded the 48th Miss Hong Kong pageant winner in addition to scooping the title of ‘Miss Photogenic’. The former surgical nurse called her win a…
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Quiapo Church prohibits kissing of sacred images
By Fernan Angeles DESPITE limited allowable capacity inside worship places, implementing physical distancing among thousands of church goers is quite difficult, said Quiapo Church rector Monsignor Hernando Coronel. Part of the measure to keep the virus from spreading is to prohibit the traditional kissing of the images inside the church, Coronel added. Coronel lamented that…
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Monthly sanitation holiday for Navotas fish port
By Fernan Angeles IN an effort to ensure a safe Navotas Fish Port Complex, the Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) and the Navotas City government sealed a partnership that would see the facility undergo a regular sanitation holiday to prevent the spread of the highly-infectious coronavirus disease. At its 44th anniversary, the city government and…
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Undocumented Filipinos seeking jobs in Croatia
By Fernan Angeles FILIPINOS abroad are not inclined on flying back home to the Philippines empty-handed. In a report to Malacañang at the regular Laging Handa briefing, the Philippine Embassy in Vienna, Austria, recorded around 50 undocumented Filipinos have flown from the Middle East to Croatia to find new jobs amid the global pandemic scare.…
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Mortality rate down to 1.6 percent
By John Clifford Lintao THE PHILIPPINE clinical management and treatment modalities for COVID-19 have greatly improved overtime, resulting to a significant drop in the mortality rate from 5 down to 1.6 percent. However, Health Undersecretary and COVID-19 treatment czar Bong Vega said that the coronavirus disease 2019 cure, as in other illnesses, should be the…