Boracay Island gets world-recognized ‘safe travel’ stamp

Boracay retains RT-PCR for vaccinated tourists

MANILA – Boracay is retaining its reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) requirement for tourists even those fully inoculated amid concerns about easy-to-tamper vaccination cards. “[W]e’ve decided to...

BPO office demand grows 160%, strong indicator of recovery

MANILA – The Philippine office market appears ready to take off and resume its pre-pandemic growth trajectory, according to a study by Leechiu Property Consultants (LPC)....

Trade chief sees exports to sustain upward trend

MANILA – Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Ramon Lopez has welcomed the robust exports performance for May 2021, saying the country’s outbound trade will...

DFA warns foreigners vs. visa, entry exemption scams

132K doses of Sputnik V jabs arrive in PH

MANILA – The Philippines received 132,000 doses of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine on Friday night. The Sputnik V jab, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center...

Talks on Duterte VP bid premature: Roque

MANILA — Critics are free to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s perceived vice-presidential plan but everything is premature as long as he has not yet filed his...

Spare Marawi rehab from politics, task force chief tells critics

MANILA – Government critics should spare the ongoing rehabilitation of Marawi City from their “vicious politics and vested interests”, Housing Secretary Eduardo del Rosario, the Task Force...

Constitution allows PRRD to seek VP post: Guevarra

MANILA – Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Friday there is no legal hindrance in the Constitution that will prevent President Rodrigo Duterte from...

PH gets 2M more AstraZeneca vaccine

MANILA – The Philippine government received over two million more doses of AstraZeneca vaccine through COVAX Facility on Friday, raising the World Health Organization (WHO)-led initiative’s donations to...