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Filipino taekwondo champion and former Makati 1st District Representative Monsour del Rosario on Friday appealed to the Philippine Olympics Committee (POC) and the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) to team up and compel the Philippine Athletics Track and Field Association (PATAFA) to complete the mediation process as directed by the Senate Committee on Sports.

Pasig City Vice Mayor Iyo Bernardo filed a cyber libel case against Mayor Vico Sotto at the Pasig Regional Trial Court (RTC) on Friday, March 18.

DOH

There is a possibility that the Department of Health (DOH) will once again release the Covid-19 case bulletin on a daily basis if the country will experience a spike in coronavirus infections again.

If that happens, the case bulletin will still follow the current format—which is highlighting the number of severe and critical cases and the healthcare utilization rate, said DOH Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire.

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Senator Joel Villanueva on Friday, March 18 called on the government to support the call of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) to implement a four-day work week to address the continuous oil price hikes and apply it primarily to the business process outsourcing (BPO) workers.

Aspiring president Vice President Leni Robredo did not win in Zamboanga del Sur in 2016 but her supporters in the province vowed it will not be the case come May.

Is Tony Labrusca off the hook relating the act of lasciviousness case filed against him by an unidentified female last year?

Bataan was “Marcos and Duterte country” back in May 2016; it will be the same case in May 2022.

Bataan 1st district Rep. Geraldine Roman practically gave this prediction on Thursday, March 17, during presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos’s visit to the province.

As the election day nears, the University of the Philippines Law (UP Law) Center Training and Convention Division, together with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) conducted a live training program for the military officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).

The Quezon City government’s free bus ride program that was implemented in December 2020 has benefitted over 5.3 million passengers, Mayor Joy Belmonte said.

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban Friday welcomed a UN Security Council resolution formally extending the world body’s presence in Afghanistan, although the government of the hardline Islamist group remains unrecognised by the international community.

MOSCOW, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of stalling talks, but added that Moscow was ready to search for solutions as he spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

BANGKOK, Thailand — Travellers to Thailand will no longer have to take a Covid-19 test before boarding the plane, under plans announced Friday as part of efforts to reboot the kingdom’s pandemic-battered tourism sector.

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s border guards said Friday that more than two million refugees had crossed into the EU member from neighbouring Ukraine since the February 24 Russian invasion.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has vowed to dig deep into the controversial incident involving actor-lovers Kit Thompson and Ana Jalandoni, recently.

The Philippine College of Chest Physicians (PCCP) on Friday, March 18, supported the recommendation of the vaccine expert panel of the National Task Force (NTF) against Covid-19 to administer fourth dose or second booster shot to elderlies and people with comorbidities.

Ana Jalandoni

Actress Ana Alajandoni has finally regained consciousness, hours after she was taken to a hospital for treatment of injuries.

On Facebook March 18, Ana said that she will soon issue a statement about what happened to her in Tagaytay City on March 17.

Valentine’s Day photo of Ana Jalandoni and Kit Thompson (Instagram)

Her full post:

“When you love someone, you will never ever harm them.

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The camp of Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte said Friday, March 18 that it respects the decision-making process of One Cebu when it comes to choosing the presidential candidate that it will endorse in the May 9 polls.

The government reported that the number of jobless Filipinos has fallen to 2.9 million in January this year, slight down to 6.4 percent from 6.6 percent in December 2021, but way better than the unemployment rate of 8.8 percent recorded in the same month last year.

Coronavirus vaccines have been prepared for distribution at a vaccination site in Manila on May 18, 2021. (Ali Vicoy/Manila Bulletin)

Jan Paul Morales outsprints Ronald Oranza at the finish line in the eighth stage of Ronda Pilipinas

The pandemic and the economy.

Comelec/MB

These will be the topics in the first Pilipinas Debates of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) which will kick off on Saturday, March 19, at Sofitel Tent in Pasay City.

In an interview, Comelec Spokesperson James Jimenez said the said topics for the first preside tila debate were chosen as these are the two biggest things on the minds of everyone right now.

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An actor was arrested by members of the Tagaytay City Police Station (CPS) for allegedly physically assaulting his girlfriend in a hotel on Friday, March 18.

Yuchengco-led Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) forecasts a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of six percent to 6.5 percent for this year – below the government’s seven-percent to nine percent-percent estimates — on the back of a possible above-target inflation rate of 4.5 percent.

While wrongdoing of the past like what happened in the so-called Jabidah massacre cannot be undone, Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said it must be ensured that it does not happen again.

Hotel guests from different households are now allowed to share rooms in accommodation establishments (AEs) located in areas under Alert Level 3 and below, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Thursday, March 17.