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Month: August 2024

Citizens’ groups urged to help win back deactivated voters

MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has asked citizens’ arm groups and other stakeholders to help encourage the 5.3 million deactivated voters to reactivate to be able to participate in next year’s midterm elections.

Comelec chair George Er…

Mpox spread, Covid-19 surge not at a worrying stage: experts

ANKARA: The spread of mpox and the rise in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in various countries around the world is not a major cause for worry at the moment, according to two prominent health experts.

The spread of mpox has sparked some co…

APECO taps US to build PH’s 1st nat’l defense hub

MANILA: The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority (APECO) wants to partner with the United States to build the country’s first national defense hub within its ecozone in Casiguran, Aurora in Central Luzon.

APECO executives led by preesi…

DA to start rollout of ASF vaccine in Batangas on Aug. 30

MANILA: The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Tuesday announced the start of the government-controlled vaccine rollout against African swine fever (ASF) in Batangas on Aug. 30.

“We’re going to implement the vaccination this Friday in Lobo,’ DA Assist…

DOTr defers new tollway guidelines until Oct. 1

MANILA: The Department of Transportation (DOTr) deferred the implementation of new tollway guidelines until Oct. 1 to allow toll operators to fine-tune their expressway operations.

DOTr Secretary Jaime Bautista announced the postponement of the polic…

WHO launches strategic response plan to contain mpox outbreak

LONDON: The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global strategic preparedness and response plan on Monday to stop outbreaks of human-to-human transmission of mpox through coordinated global, regional and national efforts.

The move came after t…