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Meeting the China Challenge: We Must Be Bolder

An outdoor screen shows a live news coverage of Chinas President Xi Jinping delivering a speech during the closing session of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People, along a street in Beijing on March 13, 2023.

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Published at 2023-07-16 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Opinion, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, China, Officials, Power, capital, economy, government

Uniform Policy for Rebooking, Refunding Airline Tickets During Travel Bans

A new bill filed in the House of Representatives proposes uniform rules for refunding and rebooking flight tickets across all airlines during natural disasters or pandemics. Filed by the Makabayan bloc, House Bill 8556 seeks to require all airlines to give passengers the option to avail of a refund, rebook or deposit to a travel fund in case flights booked in advance are canceled due to a travel ban, health emergency or a prolonged natural calamity.

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Published at 2023-06-23 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Legal, Travel

Tags: COVID-19, air travel, airlines, airport, flights, passengers

PH Consulate in Macau Counters Discriminatory Claims over Daily COVID-19 Tests

The Philippine Consulate General in Macau on Saturday said the daily COVID-19 testing requirement imposed on Filipinos residing there is a preventive measure against the virus and should not be politicized.

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Published at 2022-07-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, News and Events, People

Tags: COVID-19, Health

Making a Killing: Pfizer’s Domination of the Market for COVID Jabs

Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant that dominates the market for COVID vaccines in the imperialist countries of North America, Europe and Japan, with bilateral agreements for more than six billion doses, is also set to become the main supplier to COVAX, the global vaccine programme to the world’s poorer countries.

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Published at 2021-12-27 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, Pfizer, vaccine

Palace Exec Proposes Paradigm Shift in Monitoring COVID-19 Cases

Presidential Adviser on Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo founder Joey Concepcion has pitched a paradigm shift as far as the monitoring of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country is concerned.

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Published at 2021-12-28 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, economy, vaccine

Restaurants, Spas Can Fire Unvaxxed Staff, Defer Pay

Establishments that are allowed to offer dine-in or in-person services under the relaxed alert levels so long as their workers are vaccinated can withhold the salary of—or even fire—employees who are not vaccinated. The recent guidelines of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) exempted certain establishments from the “no vaccine, no work” and “no vaccine, no pay” policies.

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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Legal

Tags: COVID-19, Workers, economy, establishments, vaccine

Deep 'scarring' from Virus Holds Back PH Recovery

The Philippines’ economic recovery lags behind in Asia, no thanks to deep pandemic scarring, and it could take beyond 2023 to return to its prepandemic growth potential, think tanks said.

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Published at 2021-10-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Society

Tags: COVID-19, capital, economy

What Keeps PH Business Owners Up at Night?

Day 8 Business Academy Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), conducted a survey between June and August this year to determine the current state of mind of SME business owners and see what kind of help or assistance they need given the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published at 2021-10-08 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, Health, Society

Tags: COVID-19, business

Find the 'genius' Behind Gov't Insistence on Face Shields

Who’s the “genius” that convinced President Rodrigo Duterte to backtrack on his earlier ruling that face shields should be worn only in hospitals? Senate President Vicente Sotto III wants to know.

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Published at 2021-06-24 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Opinion

Tags: COVID-19

WTTC: PH Travel & Tourism Lost $37B from Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the Philippine’s Travel & Tourism sector last year wiped out $37 billion from the nation’s economy and caused two million to lose their jobs. This was the finding the World Travel & Tourism Council’s annual Economic Impact Report (EIR) today, June 2, revealed. The annual EIR from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) reveals the sector’s contribution to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) dropped 41.4%.

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Published at 2021-06-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Business, News and Events, Recreation, Travel

Tags: COVID-19, Global, Tourism, international

Game Score at Halftime: China 1 Vs Mankind 0

Welcome. We are joined live by nearly billions of people across the world, but the telecast of this soccer game is not being broadcast live only in China. We are just a few minutes away from kick-off of the game to decide the winner of the ultimate trophy -- world domination.

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Published at 2021-06-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Opinion

Tags: COVID-19, China, Tactics

Time to Address a Serious Learning Crisis

At a Senate hearing last year, the Department of Education (DepEd) reported that enrollment from kindergarten to senior high school for school year 2020-2021 was estimated at 23 million or 83 percent of the 27.7 million enrolled previously. When Senator Nancy Binay asked DepEd Undersecretary Nepomuceno Malaluan if this meant there would be millions more out-of-school youth, the answer was, “Yes, Madam Senator.”

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Published at 2021-04-19 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Education, Health

Tags: COVID-19, children

Philippines Suspends Use of AstraZeneca Vaccine for People Under 60

Philippine health authorities suspended on Thursday the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine for people below 60 years of age to investigate reports of blood clots coming from overseas. The temporary suspension came after the European Medicines Agency recommended to include blood clots as a rare side effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine, Food and Drug Administration chief Rolando Enrique Domingo said in a statement, adding that there were no reports of such adverse side effects in the country.

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Published at 2021-04-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Health, Legal, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, vaccine

Flaws Aside, Online Learning Takes Toll on Students' Mental Health

KJ Catequista suffers panic attacks whenever she receives text messages on her mobile phone from teachers of what could well be simple reminders to parents about their children’s missed deadlines. Often, it takes hours for Catequista, a mother of three, to finally open the group chat app with other parents, nervously scrolling down the names of students and silently praying that those of her children are not listed among those lagging behind.

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Published at 2021-04-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Education, Health, People

Tags: COVID-19, children

Duterte: Poor Filipinos Remain a Priority in Gov't Vaccination Program

In his weekly address, Duterte pitched the idea of vaccinators possibly going into impoverished communities to administer vaccines there, saying people in these areas have limited options in going to vaccination sites.

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Published at 2021-03-16 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Health, Politics

Tags: COVID-19, Duterte