WHO URGES GLOBAL COLLABORATION AFTER CHINA REBUKE The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Friday for all countries to work together to investigate the origins of the coronavirus that caused Covid-19, a day after China rejected plans for more checks on labs and markets in i
HOUSE TO PRIORITIZE 5 BILLS IN DUTERTE AGENDA MANILA — The House of Representatives will prioritize the five remaining bills in the legislative agenda of the Duterte administration when sessions resume next week, after the President delivers his last State of the Nation Ad
THE GAMES BEGIN At 8 pm sharp local time Friday, the lights dimmed and the fireworks went off. And the country obsessed with punctuality could finally begin the Olympic Games a year later than originally scheduled.
ISRAEL APPOINTS COMMISSION TO REVIEW NSO Israel has established a commission to review allegations that the NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus phone surveillance software was misused, the head of Parliament’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee said on Thursday. &nb
PHILIPPINES CONFIRMS LOCAL TRANSMISSION OF DELTA VARIANT MANILA — The Department of Health confirmed the local transmission of the highly contagious Delta variant of COVID-19. In a statement issued late Thursday, the DOH said that based on the phylogenetic analysis
PEGASUS STALLS PARLIAMENT AGAIN The Pegasus row continued to rock Parliament with Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday making a statement in the Rajya Sabha denouncing reports that the spyware could have been used to snoop on Opposition leaders, activists and others, a
OVER 560,000 ADDITIONAL PFIZER VACCINE DOSES ARRIVE IN PH MANILA - More than 560,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Philippines on Wednesday night, as the country continues to intensify its vaccination efforts amid the detection of the more contagious
SHASHI THAROOR: NO NEED FOR JPC INTO PEGASUS, IT PANEL WILL DO ITS DUTY Ruling out a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into alleged surveillance using the Pegasus spyware, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Techn
FRENCH PROSECUTORS OPEN PROBE INTO ALLEGED PEGASUS MEDIA SPYING French prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they had launched a probe into allegations over the use of the Pegasus spyware to target journalists in the country. This is the first probe to be announced after media outlets
NO HELP FROM CHINA IN 2016 POLLS – DUTERTE MANILA — President Duterte has denied owing his election victory in 2016 to China as ranking Beijing officials had reportedly bragged, saying he didn’t need help from a foreign country to get 16 million votes. In his regular
