Explainer: When VP is impeached, what happens then?

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 02/07/2025

(Note: This explainer was first published by Inquirer.net on October 3, 2024. Amid the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte by the House of Representatives on February 5, 2025, we are bringing this explainer to shed more…

Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday falling on the same day: How to go about this day of love, fasting and penance

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 02/14/2024

MANILA, Philippines — Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday are celebrated on the same day, globally, today, February 14.  This means that the day of love and all its myths and facts and the day that many Catholics…

As SIM card registration deadline nears, what happens next?

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 04/19/2023

MANILA, Philippines—As the deadline for the registration of all Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards draws near, the biggest question is what happens next to millions of SIM cards that have yet to be registered? The possibility of…

Monkeypox outbreak: WHO lists common symptoms, cases, surveillance

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 08/01/2022

MANILA, Philippines—Almost a week after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the monkeypox outbreak as a global health emergency, the Philippines recorded its first case amid the rapid spread of the virus across the globe. On July…

Monkeypox: What to know amid unusual rise in cases

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 07/29/2022

(This report was first published by INQUIRER.net last May 23. We are reposting it to help prevent the spread of false information, panic or  rumors about the disease and in the wake of the discovery of one case in…

Dying in an earthquake: Experts say it’s not just the tremor

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 07/28/2022

MANILA, Philippines—Earthquakes—which can result in ground shaking, soil liquefaction, landslides, fissures, avalanches, fires, tsunamis, and other destruction—have caused 750,000 deaths globally from 1998 to 2017, according to World Health Organization (WHO). Earthquakes, which can strike suddenly and…

CCLEX hastens post-COVID growth, recovery of Central Visayas region—study

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 07/25/2022

MANILA, Philippines—Cebu’s third and recently-opened Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) bridges not only Cebu but the entire Central Visayas region to rapid post-COVID socioeconomic growth and recovery, a study showed. A study by the Center for Social Research…

Do you have a polymer P1,000 bill? Don’t fold it and other dos and don’ts

Cristina Eloisa Baclig - Content Researcher Writer / @inquirerdotnet 07/11/2022

MANILA, Philippines—Is it time to kick the habit of folding banknotes? Recently, a netizen shared dismay online after a popular mall in the country allegedly refused to accept a folded 1,000-peso polymer banknote that she used for…

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