Philippines

Enhanced Community Quarantine has motivated people to find ways to have fun at home. For others, it is trying out every recipe and here’s the trend, Dalgona coffee – a whipped three-ingredient coffee topping on Tiktok and then on YouTube which has become viral. It is a Korean invention that has both fascinated and irritated anyone who has attempted to …

Want to know something new? Dr. Christine Gonzalez is one of the many front-line fighters of COVID-19. She encouraged people that we will win this battle against COVID-19 together with God’s grace. It is possible, if people will continue to take care of themselves with nourishing food and drink, get enough rest and sleep, exercise as much outside as possible …

There are many ways for us to be a hero and a good influence to the people around us. Three months into the 30th Southeast Asian Games after fighting for flag and land, many Filipino athletes are back at the forefront battling a much more challenging opponent. In this battle against COVID-19, Romark Belo, right, takes a ‘groufie’ with his …

Social distancing has motivated people to find ways to have fun at home. For others, it is trying out every recipe in the new Nothing Fancy cookbook from Alison Roman, and for others, it is dropping down a rabbit hole in social media and discovering the most relaxing and enjoyable food material to watch and recreate. That’s where the new …

Frontliners are facing an overwhelming and relentless workload in overcrowded health facilities. They work in challenging and dangerous work environments, not just because the virus is invisible, but because they are under-protected, overworked and vulnerable to infection in most settings. For the past weeks, medical doctors, nurses, paramedics have been spending their strength and time to deal with coronavirus and …

The lockdown happening in the Philippines has set changes to the improvement of the country’s air quality over pollution. To carry on with this development, The Department of Agriculture encouraged filipinos to plant in their own homes during the quarantine. The Department of Agriculture is embarking on a project in one of the agency’s programs called “Garden Land” that will …

Books usually take years to print and money before they need to be published and sold to retail; readers need to purchase them. And now, Philippine publishing industry is like a book trapped by the latest coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on just one line. The impact started before the enhanced group quarantine (ECQ). Adarna House president, Asa Montenejo expressed her decision …

Newly arrived inmates at prisons nationwide will be placed in isolation units for 14 days and undergo a health check before they can be assigned to cells, according to Pol Col Naras Savestanan, director-general of the Corrections Department. He said yesterday it must be assumed first that all new inmates as well as those who left the prisons briefly to …

As hospitals and nursing homes are urgently searching for a hand sanitizer in the midst of coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are stopping ethanol manufacturers from producing millions of gallons of alcohol that could be converted into a mixture of germ-killing. The roadblock of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has irritated the pharmaceutical and ethanol industries which have called for …

Before the coronavirus pandemic saw the cancelation of their La Liga match, two Spanish footballers took care of “FIFA 20,” a stadium-sized virtual audience watched online. The massive digital crowd is part of a remarkable boom for the digital gaming industry, as large numbers flock to online platforms for relaxation, entertainment and interaction with the “real world” suddenly falling apart. …