Schools have been informed to allow its  students to participate in protests to express their political views as an attemp to defuse growing frustrations and demands for political change. A decision confirmed by Minister of Education Nataphol Teepsuwan, followed by media reports about students from different schools flashing the three-finger greeting in front of flagpole during their morning assembly and …

A sub-committee of the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration proposed to extend the state of emergency until the end of September in order to allow for the continued compulsory quarantining of people coming from abroad. Deputy chief of the army Gen Nathapol Nakpanit, deputy chairman of the CCSA panel, says that the executive decree on public administration in emergency situations …

METRO MANILA – The government has finally eased up on the much controversial motorcycle barrier requirement for riders living in the same house. According to the Joint Task Force COVID Shield on Tuesday that the National task force for Covid-19 has approved new and more relaxed guidelines in motorcycle backriding. However, areas under GCQ will still required riders not living …

METRO MANILA – Public transportation and domestic flights resume today after Metro Manila has been shifted to general community quarantine or GCQ status. According to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) Public trains and operators from various public utility vehicles such as taxis, buses, and modern and traditional public utility jeepneys (PUJs) and UV express will resume operations to ferry the …

PETALING JAYA – The Ministry of Health said that more data is needed before the government can decide on whether to acquire vaccines being developed by Russia and China. According Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said that the vaccine’s efficacy and side effects on human trials would most likely be determine on the third clinical phase. He …

PETALING JAYA – Health experts and a former Cabinet member have expressed their opinion that the current recovery movement control order (RMCO) the government is currently implementing will like be extended from its deadline on August 31 amid the rising cases of infections in the country. The health experts expressed that it is important extended the movement control to curb …

UALA LUMPUR – Bersatu leader Tan Sri Rais Yatim said in an alleged interview that Dr Mahathir Mohamad created Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) for the benefit of him and his son, Datuk Seri Mukhriz Mahathir. In an interview with Utusan Malaysia, the former minister says that Mahathir claiming that the newly formed party meant to champion the interestof the …

KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia’s RM500 million Sukuk Prihatin under the National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana) was launched in order to support the economic recovery. The package was launched with a fully digital subscription process as part of the government’s RM35 billion National Economic Recovery Plan (Penjana). The programme is open to Malaysians over 18 years old. They can subscribed to …

METRO MANILA – Metro Manila and other nearby provinces has now been reverted back to a more relaxed general community quarantine (GCQ) from Aug. 19 to 31, two weeks after upgrading the status to Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) Metro Manila will be placed under general community quarantine (GCQ) from August 19 to August 31, 2020. The President also reverted …

METRO MANILA – A mutated strain of the coronavirus that is believed to be more infectious than the original SARS-CoV-2 has been discovered  in the Philippines. Philippine Genome Center reported the discovery of G614 strain a new mutation that has been reported to have become the dominant strain circulating worldwide. The original D614 genotype showed up in the cases collected …