MANILA – The Department of Finance (DoF) may be consider banning the online selling of sin products such as liquor and ciggarettes in a bid to prevent the spread of counterfeit items. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez said that they will move to ban the online sales of ‘sin’ products if seller found to have sold it to minors. Trade Secretary …

MANILA – The Philippine National Police has filed murder charges against two police officers involving a 15-year-old girl, who accused them of rape. PNP Spokesperson Police Brigadier Gen. Bernard Banac said in a statement that S/Sgts. Marawi Torda and Dante Ramos of the San Juan police station are now under restrictive custody while awaiting further disposition by the court. PNP …

Laos is pushing through with the hydropower project on the Mekong River and Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam shows concern on the transboundary impact and effects on nations involved. Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam on a special joint committee session of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) urged Laos to reasses the impact it may cause to the region. They praised Laos submission …

The 26th Asean-China Senior Officials’ Consultation was held virtually for the first time on July 1 to assess the progress made in the Asean-China Strategic Partnership. Philippines, the country coordinator for the Asean-China Dialogue Relations for 2018-2021 co-chaired the meeting with its Chinese counterpart, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Saturday. Asean-Philippines and the Philippine Temporary Senior Officials Meeting …

China’s twice-time Olympic badminton champion Lin Dan revealed his retirement today in a social network post, thanking his family and fans in the process. The statement implies that Lin, who took gold at the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games, will not participate in the forthcoming Tokyo Olympics, which was delayed until next July in 2021. The Chinese badminton great, …

As part of the FGV’s transformation agenda, MPC is a systematic initiative to strengthen, standardize and sustain best practices in planting and manufacturing. FGV said the framework provides broad national requirements for farming, refining, and production working processes and agricultural activities. In fact, the pilot project began in 2019 at the estate of Tembangau 6 in Pahang and the oil …

As is known, until now the global coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine has not been found yet and is still in a long research process. However, the Agriculture Research and Development Agency (Balitbangtan) of the Ministry of Agriculture (Kementan) said it was ready to produce an antivirus necklace that was claimed to be able to kill the virus that had infected millions …

The number of positive cases confirmed by Coronavirus in the new cluster at the Unilever factory in Cikarang has increased to 36 people. There are 15 family members of employees who are also infected with the Coronavirus. A spokesperson for Task Force for the Acceleration of Covid-19 Handling for Bekasi Regency, Alamsyah said that as of Friday at 11.00 WIB, …

MANILA – Malacañang has announced on Friday that religious gatherings will be allowed up to 10% of the venue’s capacity in areas under the general community quarantine (GCQ). Presidential spokesman Harry Roque confirmed that the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has given the go signal to allow more activities and other industries to resume …

MANILA – The Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) on Friday, gave the green lights to the recommendation of the Games and Amusements Board that would allow the Philippines Football League to hold training sessions under strict health protocols. .@WeArePFL clubs may now conduct official training sessions following approval from the IATF READ: https://t.co/kU88lw6Zfx — The Philippine Football …