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More than 22,500 Hongkongers received Canadian permanent residency, work or study permits in 2021, up 256 per cent from 2019. About a third received open work permits created in the wake of the national security law.
MANILA - The Sandiganbayan has dismissed charges filed against workers of a branch of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) in Marikina City who were accused 24 years ago by a government retiree of defrauding her of her gratuity pay via a fake bank account in her name. In a decision dated March 25, the anti-graft court's Fourth Division acquitted LBP Concepcion branch bank cashier Emelyn Pizarro, bank clerk Hendrei Soriaga, teller Danilo Panaguiton and document examiner Ricardo Espino. The court ordered that the case against their boss, then branch bank manager Eric Emmanuel Pineda who re...
Before coming to JMU as a political science professor in 2010, Tim LaPira worked on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for Congressman Jim Greenwood (R-Pa.) from 1998 to 1999
(File photo) MANILA - An official of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Monday appealed to the people not to buy essential medicines in bulk if they do not need them. "Let us not be greedy in purchasing medicines If you don't need it, don't buy. We are not the only ones who want to live," said Bishop Oscar Jaime Florencio, head of the CBCP Ministry on Health, in an interview over Church-run Radio Veritas. This came following reports of alleged shortage of paracetamol and other flu medicines in pharmacies, especially in Metro Manila, amid soaring...
(PNA photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - The number of fresh coronavirus infections in the country soared to 33,169, the highest since the start of the pandemic last year, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday. In its latest Covid-19 bulletin, the agency said this brought the total active case tally to 157,526, out of a total of 2,998,530 infections since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. Monday's figure of new cases surpassed Sunday's 28,707. Another 3,725 recoveries were also recorded, accounting for 93 percent of the total number of confirmed infections. Out of the acti...