METRO MANILA – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Wednesday reported that there are now 10,849 Filipinos working overseas who have been tested positive for the novel coronavirus. According to the agency, there were six additional new cases and two individuals recovered among the Filipinos in Asia and the Pacific as well as the Middle East. On the otherhand, …

KUALA LUMPUR – Police are expected to do an investigation on those behind ‘MGAG’ Facebook page for allegedly demeaning and mocking Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah in an image post. According to Bukit Aman Criminal Investigations Department deputy director (Investigation/Legal) Deputy Commissioner Mior Faridalathrash Wahid, the department has opened an inquiry regarding the incident after a report …

KUALA LUMPUR – Sime Darby Property has temporarily closed its HQ in Ara Damansara here for disinfection after one of its employee tested positive for Covid-19. The employee had been in the office until last Friday, he currently being treated and monitored at a hospital. Sime Darby Property said in a statement,  that all employees based at the headquarters have …

TripAdvisor has taught a lot of people that the client is not always right. But the famous online travel platform has handed the average traveller untold power by establishing a digital environment where the views of the hoi polloi are sought and then substantiated. However, not in Thailand, where a lone-star reviewer faces up to two years in jail for …

METRO MANILA – House of Representatives Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano yesterday abruptly approved the P4.5-trillion 2021 General Appropriations Bill on second reading while quicly moving to suspend sessions until November 16 amid the speakership row. Cayetano’s move was seen by some as a “desperate attempt” to stay in power. He was able to terminate the budget deliberations to show that …

METRO MANILA – The Senate public works committee on Wednesday gave a go signal to approve a bill that will rename an avenue in Quezon City after the late movie icon Fernando Poe. Jr. Senator Lito Lapid authored the Senate Bill No. 1822, which was seeking to rename QC’s Del Monte Avenue to Fernando Poe Jr. Avenue. The committee approved …

Here’s what’s happening as Indonesian police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse demonstrators protesting against a new employment law in two cities on the island of Java. Earlier, at the start of a three-day national strike against President Joko Widodo’s “omnibus” Job Development bill, which was signed into law on Monday, thousands of employees and students protested peacefully …

The biggest generation of social media users are K-Pop fans. They joined the hashtag movement and heard about it because they didn’t even know about the omnibus statute. The omnibus law was known to most K-Pop fans. It noted that most of those active in echoing demonstrations against the law were mostly non-partisan public. It is not the first time …

KUALA LUMPUR – MCA has urged Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to set an example and punish those in power first for violating the Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs). According to MCA spokesman Mike Chong Yew Chuan, he suggested that that it would be shameful to claim that there are “no double standards” when it comes to the government …

PETALING JAYA – The Prime Minister’s Office explained today the the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin did not breach the the Health Ministry’s orders of quarantine as he has been tested negative for Covid-19 today hence does not required to wear a quarantine band. PMO further explains that the Health Ministry did order the prime minister to wear a …