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[carousel_alt] => Peopleâs Reform Party president Narciso Santiago Jr. (fourth from left) and PRP members officially endorse Gilbert âGiboâ Teodoro Jr. (third from left) as their senatorial bet in the May 2022 elections during a press conference in Quezon City yesterday.
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Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello yesterday said certain establishments are allowed to require their workers to get vaccinated, based on a resolution issued by the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, despite the absence of an enabling law.
Facebook says it had reached an agreement with some French newspapers to pay for news shown on its users' feeds, months after Google announced a similar accord.
Facebook says the deal it struck with a group of national and regional newspapers would see it obtain licenses to publish their content. — AFP
South Korea launched its first domestically-developed space rocket on Thursday, carrying a 1.5-ton payload as it seeks to join the ranks of advanced space-faring nations.
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle II, informally called Nuri, rose upwards from the launch site in Goheung trailing a column of flame, with a television commentator saying: "It looks like it's soaring into the sky without problems."
Within minutes it had reached 600 kilometers in altitude, the beginning of its targeted range.
South Korea has risen to become the world's 12th-largest economy and a technologically advanced nation, home to the planet's biggest smartphone and memory chip maker, Samsung Electronics. — AFP
India administers its billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose on Thursday, according to the health ministry, half a year after a devastating surge in cases brought the health system close to collapse.
According to the government, around three-quarters of adults in the country of 1.3 billion people have had one shot and around 30 percent are fully vaccinated.
India suffered a huge spike in cases in April and May, reporting more than 400,000 infections and 4,000 deaths per day, with many hospitals unable to cope and crematoriums overwhelmed. — AFP
State media reports that North Korea accused the United States of "double standards" over weapons testing after an emergency UN Security Council meeting on the issue.
Pyongyang fired a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Tuesday, the latest in a series of tests in recent weeks, prompting the US and Britain to call the diplomatic meeting in New York.
But a spokesperson from the North's foreign ministry said the test was not aimed at the United States and was carried out "purely for the defence of the country". — AFP
Despite the easing of restrictions to revive the economy, there is general agreement that the pandemic is far from over. So every effort must be made to keep, if not increase, the health professionals who are manning the COVID frontlines.
Despite an increase in the number of people heading outdoors following the easing of quarantine restrictions in Metro Manila, violators of COVID-19 protocols have decreased under Alert Level 3, the Philippine National Police reported yesterday.
Local government executives outside Metro Manila want to defer the implementation of the new COVID alert level system until next month, saying the measure was “abruptly” decided.
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