ECQ or GCQ after May 15? Filipinos left hanging after Duterte fails to bare...
President Rodrigo Duterte delivered an almost hour-long national address on Tuesday but failed to announce plans for the country after May 15, the scheduled...
Jonvic Remulla announces GCQ, ECQ areas ahead of Palace advisory
Cavite Gov. Jonvic Remulla early morning pre-empted the Palace announcement and announced that the Cavite province will be placed under general community quarantine on...
WHO says ‘extreme vigilance’ needed in exit from lockdowns
GENEVA — The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday that "extreme vigilance" was needed as countries begin to exit from lockdowns imposed to curb the spread of...
After assuring Senate will back ABS-CBN franchise renewal, Sotto abstains from vote to reverse...
Senate President Vicente "Tito" Sotto III on Monday abstained from voting on the Senate resolution seeking to reverse the National Telecommunications Commission's cease-and-desist order against ABS-CBN.
His abstention...
Are we flattening the curve? Independent COVID-19 trackers show different figures from IATF data
The claim of the national government's COVID-19 task force that the country is slowly flattening the curve ran counter to the data presented by...
Plastic piles up in Thailand as pandemic efforts sideline pollution fight
BANGKOK — Thailand began the year with a ban on single-use plastic bags that Bangkok office worker Nicha Singhanoi hoped would cut back the...
Captured: These photos show how social distancing rules were broken in queues for gov’t...
Stringent physical distancing measures were not observed in some circumstances over the weekend during the distribution of cash aids and in queues in food...
South Korea scrambles to contain Seoul nightclub coronavirus outbreak
SEOUL — South Korean officials scrambled on Monday to contain a new coronavirus outbreak, searching for thousands of people who may have been infected in a...
Gov’t task force: Communist rebels used ABS-CBN to spread propaganda
Government agencies recently released contradicting responses in a now-deleted Facebook post which linked local terrorism to ABS-CBN's closure. The National Task Force to End Local Communist...
‘Disinformation alert’: Media outlets disown altered social media posts on ABS-CBN shutdown
Fake social media cards are once again gaining traction online as fake news purveyors spread false quotes of the artists of embattled media giant...
‘The Last Dance’ and ‘After The Last Dance’: Spotify drops music and podcast playlists...
Streaming giant Spotify recently launched two curated playlists tied to the wildly popular docu-series, “The Last Dance,” which chronicles Michael Jordan and the 1997-98...
Men have high levels of enzyme key to COVID-19 infection, study finds
LONDON — Men's blood has higher levels than women's of a key enzyme used by the new coronavirus to infect cells, the results of...
From news updates to grocery shopping: How Filipino moms are maximizing Twitter experience
Moms take the spotlight as microblogging platform Twitter celebrates the upcoming Mother's Day by highlighting the topics that matter to them the most as...
‘My mandate was to slay’: Korina Sanchez says viral ‘savage’ reply meant to...
As several personalities denounced ABS-CBN shutdown on their respective social media accounts, veteran journalist and magazine show host Korina Sanchez stood out after she expressed her witty...
Blame game at the House of Representatives as ABS-CBN franchise renewal bills remain pending
There's a blame game among some members of the House of Representatives amid pending bills to renew the franchise of broadcast giant ABS-CBN. House Speaker Alan Peter...