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MOBILE PHONES. Bystanders are busy on their phones while waiting outside the Delfin Geralde Elementary School along Salvia Street in Barangay Kaligayahan Novaliches, Quezon City on Tuesday (June 15, 2022). The PLDT-Smart Communications on Monday (June 20) said over 23 million smishing text messages have been blocked by their filters from June 11 to 14. (PNA photo by Oliver Marquez) MANILA - PLDT and Smart Communications (PLDT-Smart) on Monday said it blocked over 23 million smishing text message...

NEW BORACAY. The white sand beach of the newly-rehabilitated Boracay Island in this undated photo. Direct flights coming from Incheon, South Korea are expected to boost foreign arrivals on the island between the third and fourth quarter of 2022, according to Tourism Regional Director for Western Visayas Cristine Mansinares on Friday (June 17, 2022).(Photo courtesy of DENR Region VI) ILOILO CITY - A direct commercial flight from Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea carrying 148 pas...

(File photo) MANILA - Local mobile service provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) has so far blocked over 77,000 SIM cards this year as part of its crackdown on "smishing" or cybersecurity attacks via text messages that aim to steal personal data. In a statement on Friday, Smart said these SIM cards were blocked from January to May this year, more than double compared to the same period last year. The PLDT Group, Smart's parent company, has been blocking an average of more than...

(File photo) MANILA - Local mobile service provider Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) has so far blocked over 77,000 SIM cards this year as part of its crackdown on "smishing" or cybersecurity attacks via text messages that aim to steal personal data. In a statement on Friday, Smart said these SIM cards were blocked from January to May this year, more than double compared to the same period last year. The PLDT Group, Smart's parent company, has been blocking an average of more than...

ZAMBOANGA CITY - Zamboanga Peninsula has recorded 57,692 patients who have beaten the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), representing a 95.7 percent recovery rate since the start of the pandemic over two years ago. Dr. Cheryl Sarmiento, the Department of Health-Zamboanga Peninsula medical officer, said Wednesday the region has recorded a cumulative 60,248 Covid-19 cases since March 2020. Since then, the region has 57,692 recoveries, 31 active cases, and 2,525 deaths. Of the total confirmed cas...

SEND-OFF. Police, military, Coast Guard, and Bureau of Fire personnel were officially deployed on Friday (May 6, 2022) for election duty in Negros Oriental. The multi-agency send-off ceremony, spearheaded by the Provincial Joint Security Council composed of the Commission on Elections, the Armed Forces of the Philippines, and the Philippine National Police, was held at the Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office grounds in Sibulan town. (Photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - Officials ...

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Ending vote-buying depends on one's personal conviction as the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said it cannot catch violators all the time. During Friday's livestream of "Let's talk MisOcc (Misamis Occidental)" organized by the Philippine Information Agency, Comelec-Region 10 officer, lawyer Gina Zayas-Sabio said it is up to the voters themselves to not accept bribe money. "At the end of the day, it can only be prevented and stopped when those w...

ZAMBOANGA CITY - The Zamboanga Peninsula (Region 9) has registered a 95.6 percent recovery rate from coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), as 57,443 individuals here have recovered from it since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. Data from the Department of Health in Region 9 (DOH-9) released on Tuesday showed a cumulative total of 60,045 confirmed Covid-19 cases with 123 active cases, and 2,480 deaths. "These are indeed far less compared to the numbers that we have had previously,&quo...

FEWER COVID-19 CASES. Dr. Zul Qarneyn Abas, acting head of the Ministry of Health-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, speaks during a regular news conference Tuesday (March 22, 2022). BARMM, which has only 18 active coronavirus disease 2019 cases to date, is working double time on its immunization drive to downgrade its current Alert Level 2 status. (Photo courtesy of MOH-BARMM) COTABATO CITY - The neighboring regions of Soccsksargen and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindan...

MANILA - Robert Bolick headlines the top contenders for the PBA Governors' Cup Best Player of the Conference (BPC) as he leads the statistical points (SP) race. In a copy of the SP race update obtained by the Philippine News Agency on Wednesday, NorthPort's spitfire guard is way ahead with 39.9 average SPs per game during the elimination round. Phoenix's Matthew Wright is second, but he only accumulated 34.9 average SPs during the first phase of the Governors' Cup. Bolick led the...