Philippines

In online gaming, Manny Pacquiao is all set to conquer another domain this time. In a new smartphone game, “Fighting Pride: The Manny Pacquiao Saga,” which is set for an early 2021 worldwide release, the only eight-division world champion who has won 12 world boxing belts will be featured. Fighting Pride: The Manny Pacquiao Saga is a smartphone free-to-download beat-them-up …

As a national pollster said Thursday night, more than half of Filipinos are eager to be inoculated against coronavirus until a vaccine becomes available. In fact, These results come despite concerns that the national initiative to vaccinate Filipinos against a lethal and lingering pandemic will be more complicated by the memory of a failed dengue vaccine campaign from three years …

Baguio City is the first in northern Luzon to receive a grant from the national government for its socialized housing scheme dubbed as the permaculture community. In view of this, The City Planning and Growth Coordinator Dona Tabangin shared that the P255-million grant for the city’s socialized housing initiative was received from the Department of Human Settlements and Economic Development …

President Duterte has warned that if Vice President Leni Robredo decides to run for president in the 2022 elections, things would not be easy, as it would be her’ nightmare. The President aired his gripe against Robredo, who during the attack of Typhoons Rolly and Ulysses, which left scores dead in the middle of major floods in Luzon, he accused …

The President is still going through different issue but here’s another thing he tries to manage. It’s about how he recently approved the advance payments for vaccines for COVID-19, marking a change in the posture of the chief executive who formerly rejected allowing advance payments for the drug to end the pandemic of coronavirus. Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced that …

President Rodrigo Duterte signed two administrative orders authorizing additional compensation to be given directly in touch with COVID-19 patients to frontline health staff and to public and private health employees. In view of this, AO No. 35 approved the awarding during the state of national emergency of active threat service pay to health employees working on the frontlines. Meanwhile, AO …

The on-going issue for Vice President Leni Robredo’s legal team asked the Presidential Electoral Tribunal to investigate the alleged complicity between Solicitor General Jose Calida and former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. who both moved to impede Associate Justice Marvic Leonen in the poll protest, in fearfully close but unrelated motions. The lawyers of Obredo advised the PET-sitting Supreme Court …

There’s another shocking incident happened as a young lawyer on his way to a hearing was killed by unidentified gunmen in broad daylight in Palawan. This is something alarming since there consecutive case of killings for the past few months in the midst of COVID-19. The Philippines-Palawan Chapter’s Integrated Bar stated in a statement that lawyer Eric Jay Magcamit, 35, …

The Province of Isabela, which was recently hit by historic floods in the midst of the Ulysses typhoon strike, does not have adequate funds to screen people in coronavirus shelters. Whatever capital the province does have, It will be diverted into improving its relief facilities and evacuation centers. The governor shared that now that there is no further rain, they …

As the province is struck by what he terms the worst flooding in memory, the governor of Cagayan is asking for support from the national government. The local government-run radio station, Cagayan Gov. Manuel Mamba said that 24 cities and Tuguegarao City were flooded, affecting 84,257 residents. In order to provide relief supplies and rescue people trapped in their homes …