5 online events to check out this week of April 19 to 25
Written by CNN Philippines Life Staff
Updated Apr 19, 2021 5:41:48 PM
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines Life, 19 April) This week, celebrate World Poetry Month, learn about Philippine history, and watch award-winning films online.
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Join award-winning authors Glenn Diaz (“The Quiet Ones”) and Gina Apostol (“Insurrecto,” “The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata”) for a discussion on Apostol’s books and Philippine history.
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Published April 19, 2021, 3:42 PM
Advocate group: Speak as one country vs. ‘incursion’
The National Task Force for the West Philippine Sea (NTF-WPS) is looking into reports that China has begun deep-sea drilling in the South China Sea to obtain sedimentary rocks from the seabed.
West Philippine Sea (PNA file photo)
This developed as calls for the Duterte administration to stand up against China’s repeated intrusion have been growing.
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., chairman of the NTF-WPS, said they have yet to receive a report about China’s drilling activities which is reportedly being done within the country’s 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
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Published April 19, 2021, 5:48 PM
DAVAO CITY – The city government plans to start the construction of a 100-bed capacity Davao City Hospital this year at the University of the Philippines-Mindanao (UPMin) campus in Tugbok here, 3rd District Councilor Dr. Mary Joselle D. Villafuerte said.
Villafuerte said that they have been working on the draft ordinance for the establishment of the city government-owned Level 3 hospital which is planned to rise in a 3.28-hectare property within the UP Mindanao campus.
She said the city government targets to break the ground for the project within the year. She said the project needs a budget of around P300 million.