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MANILA - The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) will hasten the distribution of government-owned lands (GOLs) to war veterans and their surviving spouses or orphaned children, retired military and police personnel, and agricultural course graduates. In a statement on Tuesday, Secretary Conrado Estrella III said DAR aims to distribute the remaining 256,121 hectares of idle government-owned lands, under Executive Order (EO) No. 75, in compliance with the directive of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr...

(File photo) MANILA - The Philippines will be receiving its initial replacement of near-expiry coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines from the COVAX Facility on June 20, a health official said Tuesday. Earlier, the Department of Health (DOH) submitted a demand forecast of 34 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to the COVAX Facility. It assured it would replace the expiring vaccines it donated and those procured by the national government and local government units and the private sector....

(File photo) MANILA - The Department of Health (DOH) has submitted a demand forecast of 34 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to the COVAX Facility, which assured it would replace near-expiring jabs it donated and those procured by the national government and local government units and the private sector. In a televised public briefing on Friday, National Vaccination Operations Center chief, Dr. Myrna Cabotaje, said the demand forecast submitted on May 4 is the estimation of the number of coronav...

(File photo) MANILA - Statistics experts from the University of the Philippines (UP) on Wednesday found no irregularities in the consistent voting pattern in the partial and unofficial results of the 2022 presidential race. The UP School of Statistics said the supposed "68:32" vote ratio favoring presidential aspirant and former senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. could not be used as sufficient proof of electoral fraud. "Kung walang malinaw na konteksto, ang ganiton...