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Mukhang pera? Gordon hits ‘wrong premise’

Philippine Red Cross chairman Senator Richard Gordon on Friday said he was not offended by President Rodrigo Duterte’s “mukhang pera” comment – an idiomatic...

PhilHealth’s ills: corruption and more

"We should also look into the way PhilHealth conducts business and delivers its services." Conclusion Given President Rodrigo Duterte’s most recent directive to rid government of...

Go backs DDR creation, others voice opposition

Senator Christopher Go on Tuesday reiterated his call for the creation of a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) in the wake of the damage...

‘Rolly’ leaves wide swath of damage in 12 provinces

Typhoon “Rolly,” the most powerful storm to hit the country this year, destroyed tens of thousands of homes and killed at least 16 people,...

Local Roundup: Red Cross to roll out lower-cost saliva virus test

The Philippine Red Cross will be rolling out the saliva test for COVID-19 detection in the country at a lower cost, its chairman Senator...

State insurer pays P500M to Red Cross

The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) has already released P500 million, or about half of its P1.1 billion debt to the Philippine Red Cross...

DOT head wants cheaper virus test to entice tourists

Department of Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat has appealed for a price cap on real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction and antigen tests for Covid-19 to...

Naia swab test is highway robbery

"Some testing centers charge between P12,000 and P20,000 for the tests."   Senator Richard Gordon said airport authorities must explain why private laboratory testing centers charge...

Migrant workers bare test overprice

Filipino migrant workers stranded in the country's airports have to pay up to P20,000 for immediate coronavirus tests results, the Philippine Red Cross (PRC)...

From China: Young retirees, convicts

Senator Richard Gordon is worried Chinese retirees, mostly 35-year-olds, compose 40 percent of the total foreign retirees in the country, as his colleagues raised...

Another PhilHealth exec quits

Another official of Philippine Health Insurance Corporation has resigned following the allegations of irregularities that the state health insurer has been involved in, an...

Cases resurge after 2 weeks

After maintaining fewer than 3,000 new cases of COVID-19 for almost two weeks, the Philippines on Sunday logged 3,190 new infections, bringing the total...

Senate panel seeks all positions in PhilHealth abolished, replaced

The Senate Blue Ribbon committee has proposed the abolition of all positions in the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) and their recreation through a...

10 dead in twin bombings in Jolo

Ten people, including five soldiers, were killed while at least 40 were wounded in two consecutive explosions in Jolo on Monday. According to Senator Richard...
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