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BusinessWorld May 6, 2021 | 8:12 pm BOC THE BUREAU of Customs intercepted thousands of regulated drugs, including the currently controversial ivermectin, which were undeclared in a shipment coming from India. In a statement on Thursday, the bureau said the Customs examiner at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport found the regulated drugs “concealed in the inner portion of the subject shipment and covered by other declared regulated items.” The shipment, imported by Finstad, Inc. from New Delhi, was declared as “Food Supplements, Multivitamins and Multi-Mineral Capsules...

BusinessWorld May 6, 2021 | 8:20 pm Reporters PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo R. Duterte ordered police to arrest anyone wearing a face mask improperly, as his government struggles to contain surging coronavirus infections. “Arrest them and detain them, investigate them why they are doing it,” he said in a televised speech on Wednesday night. Violators could be detained for nine hours. He said state efforts to contain the pandemic would fail if he doesn’t tighten the rules. Thousands have been punished for violating pandemic rules since the capital region and nearby provinc...

BusinessWorld May 5, 2021 | 8:09 pm THE PHILIPPINE Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the emergency use of Moderna, Inc.’s coronavirus vaccine. The benefits of using the vaccine “outweigh the known and potential risks,” FDA Director General Rolando Enrique D. Domingo told an online news briefing. The drug is 94% effective against the coronavirus, he said, citing phase three clinical trials. Moderna filed an application for emergency use on April 26 through Zuellig Pharma Corp., the local distributor and importer of its vaccine. Modernaâ€�...

BusinessWorld May 6, 2021 | 12:32 am THE AGRICULTURE department on April 9 implemented a suggested retail price for pork kasim at P270 per kilogram and imported pork liempo at P250 per kilogram. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS THE EXECUTIVE ORDER (EO) reducing the tariff rate for pork imports would be amended after the Senate and the country’s economic managers reached a compromise on the issue, Senate President Vicente C. Sotto III said on Wednesday. “Compromise reached… (EO) 128 will be amended,” Mr. Sotto told reporters via Viber. In a phone intervie...

BusinessWorld May 4, 2021 | 9:10 pm WIKIPEDIA THE PHILIPPINE presidential palace on Tuesday distanced itself from its top envoy’s tirade against China, saying his views on the South China Sea dispute is his own. “This is not the policy of the Philippines,” presidential spokesman Herminio “Harry” L. Roque, Jr. told an online news briefing, citing “express orders” from President Rodrigo R. Duterte. Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro M. Locsin, Jr. on Monday minced no words in telling the Chinese to get out of its waters in the South China Sea, c...