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“While growth rates have slowed in NCR Plus, they are still accelerating in many highly urbanized cities outside NCR Plus,” OCTA Research fellow David said.
Police seized P1 million worth of smuggled cigarettes on board a truck intercepted on Tuesday night in Kumalarang, Zamboanga del Sur.
The confiscated 30 boxes of Gudang Baru cigarettes from Indonesia are now in the custody of the Kumalarang Municipal Police Station.
Policemen at a roadside checkpoint in Barangay Boyugan West in Kumalarang immediately impounded the truck carrying the contraband when its driver, Albert Bulalon, and helper, Anthony Suson, failed to present documents for the cargo they were to deliver somewhere in the municipality. — The STAR/John Unson
France's daily reported new coronavirus cases broke a new record on Tuesday with an average of over 300,000 a day in the past week, with the headline figure approaching half a million.
The latest data issued by Public Health France showed that there were 464,769 new cases in the last 24-hour period as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spread unabated.
A day earlier, 102,144 people had tested positive for the virus. — AFP
The United States has called for a fresh meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea after Pyongyang's fourth sanctions-breaking missile test since the start of the year, diplomats said Tuesday.
The closed-door meeting is expected to take place on Thursday, one diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity, saying that Albania, Britain, France, Ireland and Mexico had expressed support for the US initiative.
"We will continue to ramp up the pressure on the North Koreans," the US envoy to the world body, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said in an interview with The Washington Post. — AFP
Australian Open organizers say they "deeply regret" the impact that the Novak Djokovic deportation saga had on other players and admitted there were "lessons to learn".
The unvaccinated men's world number one flew out of Melbourne on Sunday after he failed in a last-gasp court bid to stay and play in the opening Grand Slam of the year, where he was targeting a record 21st major title.
His dramatic departure followed a protracted, high-stakes legal battle between the 34-year-old and Australian authorities that cast a dark shadow over the tournament. — AFP
The world's top-selling carmaker Toyota says it no longer expects to meet its annual production target with operations hampered by the global chip crunch.
A worldwide shortage of microchips -- essential components of modern cars -- has forced many automakers including Toyota to slow or temporarily halt production.
In September, the Japanese giant lowered the number of vehicles it hopes to make in the year to March 2022 to nine million, down from 9.3 million. — AFP
The DOH reports 28,471 new COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 43.4%.
Active cases are at 284,458 or 8.7% of the total cases.
Ngayong 4 PM, Enero 18, 2022, ang Department of Health ay nakapagtala ng 28,471 na karagdagang kaso ng COVID-19. Samantala ay mayroon namang naitalang 34,892 na gumaling at 34 na pumanaw. pic.twitter.com/AaWNffzJzw
Jamaica have qualified for three Olympic bobsleigh events for the first time ever, their team says, setting the stage for a "Cool Runnings"-style underdog drama to unfold at the Beijing Games.
For the first time in 24 years, Team Jamaica will send a four-man sled, the event which inspired the popular film about the Caribbean country's first unlikely foray into the winter sport.
"It will be fire on ice," Team Jamaica says Monday on their official Twitter account. "This will be the 1st time JAM has qualified in 3 Olympic bobsled events: four-man, two-man and women's monobob". — AFP
The Quezon City government said yesterday it would open more vaccination sites to ramp up its inoculation program to cover unvaccinated residents and those who need boosters amid a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Twinkle Dargani, one of the executives of Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. being held at the Senate, will not be transferred to a hospital despite being infected with COVID-19, an official said yesterday.
A feeling of helplessness could overwhelm one when he sees family members, relatives and friends dying of COVID-19 without his being able to help them fight the unseen virus and its variants. This psychological quagmire can trap average Filipinos.
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