The Metro Manila Council (MMC) has agreed to implement uniform curfew in the National Capital Region starting Monday, March 15, Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Benhur Abalos Jr. said on Thursday, March 11. Some cities in Metro Manila however, have already imposed different curfew hours earlier, anew to curb COVID-19 infections as the capital region continued to record an increase in active cases in the past few weeks. Abalos in a press briefing, said the 17 Metro Manila mayors have agreed to implement the curfew hours, which would run from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. for two weeks....

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With the coronavirus outbreak that has been affecting different countries across the globe, nurses, doctors, and other medical frontliners are thrust to care for the infected. As Philippines were placed under enhanced community quarantine since March, 2020—streets, buildings, and establishments which were once busy and filled with people, are left empty and hollow. Meanwhile, hospitals and health care centers are packed with infected patients coming in from different places. With the coronavirus currently affecting the lives of people, healthcare workers are in the thick of the battle as they have to do their job despite the high-risk of getting infected....

Out of today’s annual One Piece Day celebration in Tokyo, Japan, Netflix shared a first look at the highly-anticipated season two of the epic pirate adventure series, returning in 2026.    The series has also been given an early Season 3 renewal, which will begin production in Cape Town, South Africa later this year. Ian Stokes is set to join Joe Tracz as co-showrunner for Season 3.   ONE PIECE is a live-action pirate adventure created in partnership with Shueisha and produced by Tomorrow Studios (an ITV Studios partner) and Netflix.   ONE PIECE: INTO THE GRAND LINE Logline: Netflix’s...

Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) chief Dante Gierran said on Tuesday, Feb. 2 that 94 percent of the missing and ‘stolen’ P15 billion has already been liquidated. According to Gierran during a House hearing, P14.09 billion that was released to health care institutions (HCIs) under the Interim Reimbursement Mechanism (IRM) has been liquidated as of Feb. 1. “With respect to the IRM of almost P15 billion, I would say, there were no missing funds. Right now, these hospitals have already made liquidation of these advances we made consisting of 94%,” Gierran said in a statement. The Philhealth chief also noted...