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EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE. Students from the municipality of Culasi receive their educational assistance from Antique's provincial government for the previous school year on July 6, 2022. Provincial Youth Development Office (PYDO) head Irish Manlapaz said Tuesday (Aug. 30, 2022) that the "PYDO on Wheels" would start accepting applications for educational assistance on September 2 in the island municipality of Caluya for the first semester of School Year 2022-2023.(Photo courtesy of An...

(PNA photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - The Philippines is seeing some signs of Covid-19 endemicity despite the new threat posed by the recombinant variant Omicron XE, according to an infectious disease expert on Wednesday. In a televised public briefing, Department of Health - Technical Advisory Group member Dr. Edsel Salvana said endemicity is a gradual process a country goes through. "Nakikita na naman natin ang signs ng endemicity dito - na hindi nape-pressure ang health system, manageable n...

SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union - The provincial government of La Union has removed the negative antigen test as one of the requirements for non-leisure travel of fully vaccinated non-residents to the province. In a phone interview on Thursday, La Union provincial information officer Camille Bumatay said this measure was based on Executive Order (EO) 58 issued by Governor Francisco Emmanuel Ortega III on Tuesday. "For work, business, and government transactions non-leisure travel, non-residents...

MANILA - The World Bank has upgraded its economic outlook for the Philippines this year to 5.3 percent, higher than its projection in September at 4.3 percent. The World Bank revised its growth upward after observing that the economy grew in the first three quarters of 2021 despite the reimposition of the most stringent community quarantine in late March and early August. "(M)obility restrictions are overtime having less impact on economic activities," World Bank Country Director for B...