PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the vaccination of the general population against COVID-19 in…
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Covering the week’s most noteworthy news stories throughout the Philippines for the Filipino-American and Global Filipino community.
THE Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is still considering its next move on the case…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has formally signed a Certificate of Nomination and Acceptance (CONA), affirming…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte is no longer requiring the use of face shields outdoors. In…
FILIPINO boxer turned Senator Manny Pacquiao has declared his presidential bid in the Philippines’ 2022…
THE Philippine government will not allow the International Criminal Court (ICC) to look into the…
OVER two million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States have…
THE Philippines remained as the deadliest country in Asia for land and environmental defenders in…
THE Japan Embassy in Manila has confirmed that its government received an intelligence report on…
OUTGOING United States Embassy Chargé d’ Affaires John Law is confident that the security alliance…
THE Philippines will keep its mandatory requirement of wearing a face shield outdoors unless the…
THE highly-transmissible Delta variant is now the most dominant COVID-19 variant in the Philippines, the…
INTERNATIONAL travelers entering the Philippines will now be required to register through an online portal…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte will follow through with his plan to run for vice president…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has announced his intent to run for the country’s second-highest post…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has honored his pledge to reward the Filipino athletes who represented…
MORE than 360,000 additional Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses have arrived in the Philippines. Of the…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has asked the United States for more vaccines against COVID-19, saying…
The FACC Foundation, along with the Coalition of Filipino American Chambers of Commerce (COFACC) and…
FULLY vaccinated travelers who are close contacts of probable and confirmed COVID-19 cases will now…
THE Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is studying possible courses of action against an American…
THE Philippines has pulled out of a pandemic-induced recession as its gross domestic product (GDP)…
THE Philippines’ sinigang has been hailed as the best rated vegetable soup in the world…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has revealed that the COVID-19 vaccine donations from the United States…
AFTER moves to cancel the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has backtracked…
FOREIGN spouses, children, and parents of Filipino citizens traveling to the Philippines as tourists no…
DESPITE delivering his sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA), Philippine President Rodrigo…
Travelers from US still required to undergo 10-day quarantine THE Philippine government’s COVID-19 task force…
A SIDE agreement or “addendum” in implementing the country’s Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the…
PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte is looking to speak with the United States government about the…