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MANILA - The National Privacy Commission (NPC) on Wednesday said the Philippines will support the establishment of the Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum for the interoperability of different regulatory approaches to data privacy and protection across the world. In a statement, NPC Commissioner John Henry Naga welcomed the Philippines' involvement in "improving cross-border data flows and fostering innovation without compromising effective data protection and privacy." ...

(PNA photo) MANILA - The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) completed the overhaul of 52 of its train cars as part of its efforts to ensure the safety and proper operation of its rolling stock and increase the number of operational trains. In a Facebook post on Thursday, the MRT-3 said out of the 72 train cars that need to be overhauled, only 20 remain unfinished. "Sa ilalim ng overhauling, pinapalitan ng mga bagong piyesa ang mga depektibong components ng mga bagon o train cars at pinipintu...

JERUSALEM - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that they are targeting a location inside Lebanon with artillery shells in retaliation for rocket fire. "In response to the projectile launched from Lebanon into northern Israel earlier tonight, IDF Artillery forces are currently targeting the source of the launch in Lebanon," they said on Twitter. Earlier, the Israeli army announced that a projectile fired from Lebanon landed in an open area near the town of Shlomi without causin...

ANKARA - Global military expenditure reached an all-time high of over USD2 trillion in 2021, according to an international survey released Monday. Total military spending rose 0.7 percent from the previous year and reached USD2.113 trillion, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. It said the global military burden, or world military expenditure as a share of world gross domestic product (GDP), fell by 0.1 percentage point from 2.3 percent in 2020 to 2.2 percent in 202...

LIBRENG SAKAY. Commuters queue up at the Monumento stop of the EDSA Busway Carousel in this undated photo. More than 300,000 commuters availed of the government's Libreng Sakay on Monday (April 11, 2022), the first day of the program's resumption. (PNA photo) MANILA - More than 300,000 commuters have availed of the "Libreng Sakay" (free ride) program on the first day of its resumption at the Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (Edsa) Busway Carousel and other participating routes nat...

(PNA photo) MANILA - The Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC), the operator and maintenance provider of the Light Rail Transit Line 1 (LRT-1), has surpassed 20 million safe man-hours in all of its International Organization for Standardization (ISO)-certified facilities and offices. The LRMC has been recognized for its "outstanding safety achievement" by the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) - Occupational Safety and Health Center (OSHC). It noted that the achievement was reach...

MRT-3 trains. (PNA file photo) MANILA - The Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) has reached a daily ridership of 294,621 on Thursday, beating the previous day's record of 293,290. This is the highest since the rail service resumed operations amid the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic in June 2020. In a Facebook post, the MRT-3 said the increase in the number of passengers may have been the result of its "Libreng Sakay (free ride)" program and its increased maximum passenge...

BUTUAN CITY - Eighty-one workers in Surigao del Sur were awarded monetary claims in 2021 through the agency's Single-Entry Approach (SENA) program, the Department of Labor and Employment in Caraga (DOLE-13) said Tuesday. "To provide accessible, speedy, impartial, and inexpensive settlement procedures, the DOLE-SDSPO (DOLE Surigao del Sur Provincial Office) facilitated the settlement of the workers' requests for assistance in the province through the SENA program," DOLE-13 said ...

(PNA photo by Joey O. Razon) MANILA - The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has denied the claims of a vice presidential candidate that there is corruption in its public utility vehicles (PUV) modernization program (PUVMP). In a statement Monday, the DOTr said vice presidential candidate Walden Bello's statement during a debate Sunday "reflects utter ignorance" about the PUVMP-the Duterte administration's largest non-infrastructure project that seeks to modernize both PUVs an...

(Infographic courtesy of DOH) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) on Friday reported 1,062 new recoveries and 853 additional cases of Covid-19. Its daily Covid-19 tally shows that 784 or 92 percent of the new cases occurred within the recent 14 days. During this period, it said 170 cases or 22 percent were detected in the National Capital Region (NCR), 128 or 16 percent in Region 4-A, and 94 or 12 percent in Region 7. To date, there are 50,230 active cases in the country-slightly lower than ...