IMPLEMENTATION OF CHILD CAR SEAT LAW POSTPONED MANILA The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has deferred implementation of Republic Act 11229 or the Child Safety in Motor Vehicles Act as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) finalizes enforcement guidelines for the law. Both the DOTr
'SERIOUS BLOW TO DEMOCRACY': WORLD CONDEMNS MYANMAR COUP; CHINA REMAINS SILENT Myanmar's military has detained the country's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other senior figures from the governing party, seizing power in a coup less than 10 years after it handed
DUTERTE: 'HIGHEST BIDDER' WINS IN COVID-19 GLOBAL VACCINE SUPPLY; ACCUSES EU OF HOLDING VACCINES HOSTAGE MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday claimed that countries that can pay more are being prioritized by pharmaceutical companies in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. &nbs
MYANMAR'S SUU KYI DETAINED IN MILITARY COUP, 1-YEAR EMERGENCY DECLARED Myanmar's military staged a coup on Monday, detaining de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi and declaring it had taken control of the country for one year under a state of emergency.
PH TO RECEIVE AT LEAST 5.6-M DOSES OF PFIZER, ASTRAZENECA COVID-19 VACCINES MANILA - The Philippines will be receiving at least 5.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX Facility, the country's "vaccine czar" said Sunday.
AMID CRITICAL SHORTAGE, E.U. MOVES TO LIMIT VACCINE EXPORTS Desperate as doses run dry, the European Union on Friday approved its third coronavirus vaccine, while moving to restrict exports of the shot, shunning its decades-old free-trade, anti-protectionism creed amid a growing crisis.
LOCSIN, BLINKEN VOW TO STRENGTHEN COUNTRIES' ALLIANCE MANILA - The foreign secretaries of the Philippines and United States have reaffirmed the need to work closely to strengthen the alliance between the two countries.
PHILIPPINES SETS CONDITIONS ON ENTRY OF FOREIGNERS STARTING FEB. 1 MANILA The inter-agency task force leading the country's COVID-19 response has set conditions on the entry of foreign travelers into the country next month, Malacañang said on Friday. The IATF, which met on Thur
WHO TEAM LEAVES WUHAN QUARANTINE TO START COVID PROBE A World Health Organization (WHO) team emerged Thursday from a Wuhan hotel used for 14 days quarantine and boarded a bus to begin its probe into the first known coronavirus cases. Outside the hotel, reporters were kept distant by yell
RUSSIA OKs EXTENSION TO ARMS CONTROL PACT WITH US Russian lawmakers on Wednesday quickly approved the extension of the last remaining nuclear Russia-US arms control treaty, a fast-track action that comes just days before it's due to expire. Both the Houses voted unanimously to extend the
