AGRICULTURE Secretary William Dar on Monday denied allegations that some groups earned kickbacks from the importation of pork amid the shortage of supply because...
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NOTWITHSTANDING the pandemic paranoia and confusion, I submit it is time for the nation to turn its undivided attention in preparation for the...
I’M publicly apologizing to the President for my light banter on my Facebook and Twitter accounts about his scarce public appearances lately.
Mea culpa, mea...
IN April 2020, I attended an international conference where an infectious disease specialist warned us that Covid-19 is mutating rapidly. He said we could...
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Here are the top stories of The Manila Times for Wednesday, April 14, 2021.
READ: Government braces for new surge
On Tuesday, vaccine czar Carlito...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign hit a snag on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) when federal regulators recommended a “pause” in...
THE Philippines, the lone Catholic country in Asia, topped the Vatican’s list of countries with the highest number of baptized young children or those...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday ordered the filing of a new diplomatic protest against China amid the reported return of over...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director-General Rolando Enrique Domingo admitted on Wednesday there has been “pressure” to approve the use of the antiparasitic drug...
Vaccination in Visayas, Mindanao gathers pace
The government’s vaccination program is seen to pick up as more vaccines are distributed especially in the Visayas and...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Fire hit the Provincial Health Office (PHO) in Misamis Oriental on Wednesday night, destroying vials of the AstraZeneca vaccine intended...
THE Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) on Wednesday welcomed the signing of the executive order creating the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Streamlining of...
TROPICAL storm "Surigae" has slightly intensified as it is expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Friday, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical...
THE Philippines topped the Vatican's list of countries with the most baptized young children or those below seven-years old, according to the latest Statistical...
VICE President Maria Leonor "Leni" Robredo is urging local chief executives to put up mobile laboratories as another way to help decongest hospitals in...
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law making the position of a cooperatives development officer (CDO) mandatory in all municipalities, cities and provinces.
Under Republic...
THE Department of Budget and Management (DBM) released P3.51 trillion of the 2021 budget in the first quarter, data showed on Wednesday.
Data from the...
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NOTWITHSTANDING the pandemic paranoia and confusion, I submit it is time for the nation to turn its undivided attention in preparation for the...
I’M publicly apologizing to the President for my light banter on my Facebook and Twitter accounts about his scarce public appearances lately.
Mea culpa, mea...
IN April 2020, I attended an international conference where an infectious disease specialist warned us that Covid-19 is mutating rapidly. He said we could...
KUDOS to President Rodrigo Duterte for following the recommendation of his economic team and certifying as urgent proposed amendments to the Public Service Act, the Foreign Investments Act and the Retail Trade Liberalization Act. The ball, as the saying goes, is now in Congress’ court.
Finance Secretary Carlos...
Dear PAO,
My three relatives fell victim to an unscrupulous person who represented himself to be a recruiter who has the license to undertake recruitment...
OVER the weekend when talk about the status of President Rodrigo Duterte’s health was getting wild, fueled by conspiracy theories and partisan bickering, while...
FOR many years extending to the Duterte administration, the sitting president has been annexing the legislature’s power of the purse to the executive’s power...
THE worrisome situation that continues to intensify across the Indo-Pacific theater — India-China border, Taiwan Strait, East China Sea, South China Sea — is...
THE Department of Health (DoH) continues to intensify its communication strategies to provide accurate and timely information about the Covid-1 9 pandemic. Hence, the...
A temporary mobile hospital and drive-through vaccination site will soon rise in Rizal Park after the Department of Tourism (DoT) gave its nod to the project.
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that the Board of Directors of the National Parks...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 vaccination campaign hit a snag on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) when federal regulators recommended a “pause” in...
THE Philippines, the lone Catholic country in Asia, topped the Vatican’s list of countries with the highest number of baptized young children or those...
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. on Wednesday ordered the filing of a new diplomatic protest against China amid the reported return of over...
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director-General Rolando Enrique Domingo admitted on Wednesday there has been “pressure” to approve the use of the antiparasitic drug...
The mega quarantine center at the former campus of The Manila Times College (TMTC) in Subic will further boost the government’s fight against Covid-19,...
TROPICAL storm “Surigae” has slightly intensified but almost stationary.
It is expected to enter the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) on Friday, the Philippine Atmospheric,...
SYDNEY: The testing of a potentially needle-free Covid-19 vaccine has been approved in Australia.
The vaccine, Covigen, is a joint venture between the University of...
XINJIANG: The Canadian government has warned its citizens with ethnic ties to Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region that they could be “at risk...
YORK: A highly contagious variant of Covid-19 first identified in
Britain does not cause more severe disease in hospitalized patients, according to a new study...
BEIJING: China’s top economic planner announced it would restrict the construction of skyscrapers over 500 meters and prohibit the construction of “ugly buildings” in...
Last-minute buying enabled the local bourse to snap its losing streak and rebounded a few points above the 6,500 territory on Wednesday.
The bellwether Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) climbed 1.01 percent or 65.42 points to its intraday high of...
Finland has expressed its interest in expanding its economic cooperation with the Philippines, according to the Department of Finance (DoF).
In a statement on Wednesday,...
The Department of Energy has approved the divestment of Chevron Malampaya LLC’s (now UC38 LLC) 45-percent share in the Malampaya gas field project to UC...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has been a super-spreader event of misinformation online, leading to an all-time high level of fake news online, according...
Tax conventions or treaties are mechanisms imposed by a state in order to minimize the effects of double taxation. They provide double taxation reliefs...
BEIJING: China’s economy grew at a record pace during the first quarter as it rebounded from a historic contraction caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), and...
SAITAMA: Toshiba’s president Nobuaki Kurumatani has resigned, the firm announced on Wednesday, as a buyout offer from a private equity fund reportedly stirs turmoil inside the...
TOKYO: Most markets rose in Asian trade on Wednesday as investors shook off a forecast-topping US inflation print and concerns over Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, instead...
PALM SPRINGS: Microsoft on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) moved to defend against a dangerous new threat to Exchange email servers while the fight continued against hackers...
NEW YORK: The arrival on Wednesday of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase on Nasdaq is one of the most anticipated events of the year on Wall Street, where...
FILIPINO seafarers have been included in the vaccine priority list to ensure their employment and safety of global supply chains.
Lawyer Iris Baguilat, president of...
The maritime sector of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), consisting of the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina), Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), and the Philippine Coast...
Filipino cue artist Dennis ‘The Robocop’ Orcollo stamped his class in the Iron City Open at the Iron City Billiards in Birmingham, Alabama held recently.
Orcollo, a five-time Southeast Asian Games and one-time Asian Games gold medalist, ruled the 18-entrant...
Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) is still on the planning stage when it comes to the national team’s training resumption, according to head coach...
DENVER: The Denver Nuggets will be without Jamal Murray indefinitely after the dynamic point guard suffered a torn ACL in his left knee.
The Nuggets...
INDIANAPOLIS: Bobby “Slick” Leonard was selected as the ABA’s greatest coach. Hall of Fame player George McGinnis considered him a genius.
On Tuesday (Wednesday in...
AUGUSTA: The idea was to create golfing heroes, not necessarily a Masters champion.
Hideki Matsuyama is now both.
“I owe a deep debt of gratitude to...
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s relationship with the Champions League over the last decade has been fraught with disappointment and littered with spectacular defeats, but an...
MONACO: Stefanos Tsitsipas made a winning start to the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) after the world number five cruised past...
MILWAUKEE: Willson Contreras struck back after getting plunked again by the Brewers, hitting a two-run homer in the eighth inning and enjoying his trip...
SEVILLE: Thomas Tuchel urged his young Chelsea team to embrace their Champions League "adventure" after they reached the semifinals for the first time since...
ENGLEWOOD: NFL players were locked out of team headquarters last offseason because of the coronavirus pandemic.
This year, their union wants them to boycott any...
Academic Year 2020-2021 is consequential for Philippine online education. Prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, education institutions in the country have resorted to online teaching...
Accessing learning materials can be particularly challenging amid the pandemic that compelled schools to close and instead, adapt remote learning. But kindergarten pupils in...
The Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) and Mapua University revealed on Tuesday that they are starting to equip the country's 45 Higher Education Institutions...
THE City Government of Marikina has tapped digital financial services leader PayMaya to roll out contactless payments for real property and other business taxes within the city.
Using PayMaya’s payment platform, residents and businesses can now pay for their city...
STARBOOKS was honored for garnering the Excellence in Government Communication Programs award in the 18th Philippine Quill Awards, marking another achievement for being one...
THE Bellevue Resort continues to heighten its safety measures to ensure its employees and guests will have a safe environment and comfortable stay. The...
LIKE most people, 24-year-old singer/songwriter Jack Newsome spent a large part of the world’s pandemic figuring things out. The New Jersey native lived in...
THE Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the country’s palay (unmilled rice) production may reach 4.57 million metric tons (MT) in the first three months...
The efforts of the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) and Smart Communications Inc. to empower farmers through mobile and internet literacy was recognized recently at...
THE Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (Searca) has forged an agreement with the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction...
After emerging as “The Clash” Season 3 grand champion, Power Diva Jessica Villarubin wins another bout, only this time it’s something more personal — her insecurity.
The singer recently released her debut single under GMA Music titled “Ako Naman.”
Penned by...
BY JULY, it will be 14 years since Ruffa Gutierrez got separated from her former husband, Turkish businessman Yilmaz Bektas.
The 46-year-old actress recalled, she...
Carla Abellana and Tom Rodriguez received much love from their fans and colleagues when they publicly announced their engagement in March — five months...
In this age of convenience and instant gratification, one really does not need to cook and instead just order for delivery. Restaurants have somehow transformed their business to produce ‘kits’ and have it picked up or delivered in the...
Botanical infusions are often referred to as tea — which isn’t surprising since it’s what most people are familiar with. Technically speaking though, true...
The Tourism Commission of Hong Kong launched the City in Time tourism project, which integrates augmented reality (AR) and multimedia technologies to present perfect...
FILIPINO seafarers have been included in the vaccine priority list to ensure their employment and safety of global supply chains.
Lawyer Iris Baguilat, president of...
IF you pass by Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park on a winter night, the dazzling light of an oval-shaped building would probably catch your attention.
This...
The Department of Energy (DoE) is furthering its push for hydrogen energy with the signing of another nonlegally binding accord with Tokyo-based Hydrogen Technology...
Academic Year 2020-2021 is consequential for Philippine online education. Prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic, education institutions in the country have resorted to online teaching...
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