WITH WORLD BUSY FIGHTING CORONAVIRUS, CHINA QUIETLY BUILDS INSTALLATIONS ON PHILIPPINE-CLAIMED REEFS MANILA — While the rest of the world is busy battling the coronavirus pandemic, China, where the virus originated, has taken advantage of the countries’ preoccupation by building n
PM ADDRESSES THE NATION, DECLARES 21-DAY NATION-WIDE LOCKDOWN Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown across the country for 21 days from midnight, asserting that social distancing is the only way out for the country to fight a decisive battle against corona
CHINA OFFERS GLOBAL HELP IN COMBATING COVID-19 President Xi Jinping and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke over phone on Monday night and voiced support for the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. On behalf of the C
GLOBAL LOCKDOWN TO FIGHT THE CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said, "The pandemic is accelerating," Tedros said. "It took 67 days from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases, 11 days for the second 100,000 cases and just fou
AS COVID-19 GROUNDS CRUISE SHIPS, SOME 10,000 FILIPINO SEAFARERS NEED TO BE REPATRIATED MANILA – Some 10,000 Filipino seafarers are in need of repatriation after COVID-19 halted the operation of cruise ships worldwide, a crew service agency said Tuesday. Magsaysay Maritime Corp. i
ALMOST THE WHOLE COUNTRY COMES UNDER CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWNIndia's death toll from coronavirus contagion rose to nine on Monday, theUnion Health Ministry said in its latest update.India's confirmed infections rose to 471, the Indian Council for MedicalResearch, the country's nodal agency entruste
XI'S DIPLOMACY PRIORITIZES SOLIDARITY, COOPERATION President Xi Jinping has used head-of-state diplomacy to call for the building of a community of common health for mankind amid the mounting global public health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, observers said. China's experiences o
ABE: OLYMPICS COULD BE POSTPONED Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said postponing the Olympic Games could become an option if it was not possible to hold it in its "complete form". He said the country might have "no option but to consider postponing the games", but added that cance
SPECIAL CONGRESS SESSION ON COVID-19 MANILA — Congress is meeting on Monday, March 23, for a special session to, according to a letter from the Palace, "authorize the president to exercise powers necessary to carry out urgent measures to meet the current national emergency relating t
CHINA SECURITIES WATCHDOG LAUNCHES INDEX SYSTEM FOR STAR BOARD China's top securities watchdog launched an evaluation index system of science and technology innovation for the country's Nasdaq-style sci-tech innovation board, or the STAR market, to facilitate the innovation-driven economic transfor
