25,000 more workers laid off, 100,000 others got pay cuts in January

Dona Pazzibungan 02/15/2021

MANILA, Philippines — At least 25,226 more workers were laid off in January while 108,089 more workers found themselves without pay or with drastic pay cuts as businesses suffered further losses since the new coronavirus pandemic emerged…

PH logs first death from UK variant

Dona Pazzibungan 02/09/2021

One of the Philippines’ 25 known cases of a highly contagious variant of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has died, and health authorities are still looking for the source of infection. Twenty-two people who have positively…

Año to public, officials: Refrain from holding events

Dona Pazzibungan, Jeannette Andrade 11/30/2020

MANILA, Philippines — Interior Secretary Eduardo Año on Sunday advised the public and his fellow government officials to refrain from holding community events if they could not guarantee compliance with coronavirus measures. Año also said he would…

Pemberton pardon right, fair – Locsin

Dona Pazzibungan 09/10/2020

MANILA, Philippines — In a series of tweets on Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. expressed sympathy for former US Marine Joseph Scott Pemberton and defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to grant the American…

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