Philippines

Manila – Budget airliner Cebu Pacific, reported a net loss of nearly P1.2 billion in the first three months of the year as the coronavirus pandemic freezes flights both on domestric and international travel. The airline unit of the Gokongwei Group said the loss is 135.2% lower than the P3.36-billion net income earned in 2019. The total revenue amounted to …

MANILA – The Instagram live conversation between John Lloyd Cruz and Bea Alonzo that went viral was, in fact, revealed as an experimental movie. Titled “Love Team,” the so called “Unconfined Cinema” were produced and directed by Antoinette Jadaone. A love story told entirely in Instagram with the idea of “exploring what else cinema could be, freeing our stories to …

MANILA –  A total of 2,103 examinees passed the 2019 Bar, 27.36% higher than 2018, Bar Chairman Estela Perlas Bernabe confirmed on Wed (April 29). The result was posted on the high court’s official website due to the government enforced lockdown on several areas in Luzon. University of Santo Tomas-Legazpi’s Mae Diane Azores topped the Bar with 91.049% followed by …

Last year, people are being called on to help enact a stringent public smoking ban imposed by President Rodrigo Duterte in the country. Many fear that the call for civilians to help municipal authorities apprehend violators could lead to vigilant violence close to that of an anti-drug movement that has led to the deaths of thousands of people accused of …

The Philippines has the world’s highest prison occupancy rate, aggravated by the war on drugs waged by the Duterte administration, under which hundreds of thousands of people have been imprisoned since July 2016. Since March 2020, thousands of people have been charged and briefly held for breaking curfews and quarantine laws, with subsequent chaotic police lockups and jails. As with …

For more than a month, a lot of things has changed and everyone is still adjusting with the sudden lockdown in many areas in the country. However,  many quarantine laws would be eased, some non-essential companies will be permitted to reopen, and the so-called “new standard” would remain in effect in places where the number of COVID-19 cases is considered …

As COVID-19’s human toll continues in its catastrophic progression, the world desperately awaits a vaccine that could put an end to the pandemic. Researchers are exploring all manner of possible vaccinations: live attenuated (pathogen weakened) vaccinations, inactivated (killed) vaccines, vector-based vaccines, protein subunit vaccines, DNA vaccines, mRNA vaccines — everything with their respective advantages and drawbacks. Even the BCG TB …

As the Philippines passed the point in the month-long enhanced community quarantine to counter the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), it could be a timely time to partially revive public and mass transportation – at least for the benefit of health workers and other frontline staff since the struggle is real as they spend their energy at work and getting stressed …

The sacrifices that physicians, nurses and other first responders in the Philippines are working well to care for people with Coronavirus have earn outpouring recognition and gratitude. But another group of employees who endanger their safety in carrying out their duties during the COVID-19 pandemic is not receiving nearly as much attention: the garbage collectors of the country. As frontlines …

Cebu Mayor Edgardo Labella has said on his Facebook page that there were 63 more inmates that has contracted the dreaded Covid19 virus, bringing the number of Cebu Jail inmates tested positive for the Coronavirus above 200, now at a staggering number of 207. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 7 has already ordered the isolation of …