TRUMP OFFERS ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE TO DUTERTE MANILA — In a recent phone call with President Rodrigo Duterte, US President Donald Trump offered additional assistance to the Philippines as it deals with the deadly coronavirus disease, which first emerged in China late last year. The
REGIONAL COOPERATION VITAL FOR VIRUS RESPONSE The novel coronavirus pandemic could help China and neighboring countries step up nontraditional security cooperation for a stronger community with a shared future as President Xi Jinping has been committed to promoting neighborhood diplomacy ba
CORONAVIRUS DID NOT COME FROM US: WUHAN LAB A laboratory in the Chinese city at ground zero of the global COVID-19 outbreak has rejected U.S. theories that it spawned the pandemic. The denial came as world governments were debating how and when to ease lockdowns that have kept more than
GOVERNMENT EYES PHASED, TARGETED LIFTING OF COVID QUARANTINE MANILA — The government is eyeing a phase-by-phase lifting of the Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine as it considers heeding the advice of the World Health Organization (WHO) against abruptly lifting lockdowns around
KEY MEETING: GET NATION BACK TO WORK A key Party meeting on Friday pledged greater efforts to expand domestic demand, increase investment and help small and medium-sized enterprises survive the COVID-19 pandemic with normalized containment measures in place.
NO MARTIAL LAW, JUST ITS STYLE OF DISCIPLINE’ MANILA, Philippines — The imposition of martial law would be unlikely without invasion or rebellion in the country, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said yesterday. What President Duterte wants is to impose strict disciplinary procedu
CHINA DENIES COVER-UP AS WUHAN CORONAVIRUS DEATHS REVISED UP 50% In face of international criticism over under-reporting coronavirus data, China Friday denied these allegations made by other countries of covering up the extent of its pandemic outbreak on Friday. A Chinese foreign ministr
XI: COOPERATION, SOLIDARITY KEY TO CONTAGION FIGHT As the novel coronavirus pandemic has run rampant globally, President Xi Jinping's unremitting call for solidarity and cooperation to stem the spread of the contagion has greater relevance to coping with the common threat the world is facin
TRUMP UNVEILS HIS 3-PHASE PLAN TO REOPEN A STALLED ECONOMY AMID CORONAVIRUS As Covid-19 continues to spread across the US, President Donald Trump has given governors guidance on reopening state economies in the coming months. The guidelines for "Opening up America Again" outline three pha
DUTERTE WARNS OF ‘MARTIAL RULE’ DISCIPLINE vs VIOLATORS MANILA — With an average of 4,000 quarantine violators being accosted daily, President Duterte warned last night that he would make the police and military enforce social or physical distancing “just like in martial l
