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MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker has urged the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) to increase by 20 percent its benefits coverage. In a statement on Sunday, AGRI party-list Rep. Wilbert Lee cited inflation as one of the…
WASHINGTON–Several US TV networks late Thursday halted live coverage of Donald Trump’s first public appearance since election night after concluding that the president was spreading disinformation. Trump unleashed a flood of incendiary and unsubstantiated claims in a…
MANILA, Philippines — Forty-one journalists from different news organizations on Tuesday filed a petition for intervention asking the Supreme Court (SC) to lift President Rodrigo Duterte’s coverage ban against online news site Rappler. The petition was lodged…
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday signed a law giving all Filipinos access to health care services. The Universal Health Care Act expands PhilHealth coverage to include all citizens of the Philippines, and its services to provide members…
SUN Cellular plans to retain its 59 percent market share in Cebu by offering wider and better internet connection in Cebu. “Cebu has long been known as a ‘Sun Country’ and we hope to keep this moniker…
THE success of the free bus rides being offered by the city for workers from the business processing outsource (BPO) industry has prompted the Cebu City Government to expand its coverage, and add another route. Nanette Garong,…
THE Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has expanded their Libreng Gamot para sa Masa (Lingap sa Masa) medical service for indigent individuals. Leah Quintana, information officer of DSWD-7, said the program with P131-million budget is…
Should reporters and correspondents join anti-drug operations if only to prove that there are no killings of drug suspects contrary to claims of their families and rights groups? That’s the question that arose after President Rodrigo Duterte…
Communications Secretary Martin Andanar has signed an interim policy for accrediting bloggers to cover the events of President Rodrigo Duterte. Andanar signed on August 8 Department Order no. 15 entitled “Interim Social Media Practitioner Accreditation.” “In the…
Secure mediamen covering the Marawi armed conflict. This was the appeal raised by different media organizations in a meeting with the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) held on Wednesday. Representatives from six media organizations present…
Call it coincidence but President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest broadsides against the media, specifically the Philippine Daily Inquirer and ABS-CBN, came at a time when two lawmakers supposedly allied with him got mired in a very public squabble…
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