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Palace: Conduct of workshops, trainings, seminars allowed in GCQ areas

IATF allows maximum of 30% capacity, Roque says (Eagle News) — The conduct of workshops, trainings and seminars is now allowed in areas under a general community quarantine. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases, however, limited the capacity to up to 30 percent. Roque said congresses, board meetings, conferences,  colloquia, conclaves, symposia, and consumer trade shows are also allowed, subject to the same capacity limit […]

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Moderna plans 100 million Covid vaccine doses in early 2021

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Moderna plans to have 100 to 125 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine available in the first quarter of 2021, the vast majority of which will go to the United States, the biotechnology company announced Thursday. Between 85 and 100 million of the doses will be distributed in the United States, with the rest of the world receiving the remaining 15 to 25 million, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said in […]

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NASA buying Moon dust for $1

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000, rock-bottom prices that are intended to set a precedent for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector. “I think it’s kind of amazing that we can buy lunar regolith from four companies for a total of $25,001,” said Phil McAlister, director of NASA’s Commercial Spaceflight Division. The contracts […]

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PNP looking into alleged ties of Los Baños, Laguna mayor to illegal drugs in probe of his killing

Investigators also checking if slay was work-related (Eagle News) — The police are looking into the alleged ties of Los Baños, Laguna mayor Caesar Perez to illegal drugs in their probe of his killing on Thursday night. In a television interview on Friday, Laguna Provincial Police spokesperson Lt. Col. Chitadel Gaoiran said the police were also looking at the possibility his killing was related to his work as mayor. Perez was among the politicians on […]

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Inflation accelerates to 3.3 percent in November

(Eagle News) — Inflation accelerated to 3.3 percent in November, the fastest since April 2019, the Philippine Statistics Authority said on Friday, Dec. 4. According to the PSA, the inflation rate recorded last month was a jump from the 2.5 percent registered in October, the 1.3 percent recorded in November 2019. The PSA said the country’s year-to-date inflation for 2020 was at 2.6 percent. The agency attributed the overall acceleration to the annual increase of […]

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Cloudy skies, rains expected today due to tail-end of frontal system, northeast monsoon

(Eagle News)–The tail-end of a frontal system is affecting the eastern sections of Central and Southern Luzon. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the northeast monsoon is also affecting Northern Luzon and the rest of Central Luzon. According to PAGASA, due to the frontal system, Qurino, Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Rizal, Quezon, Batangas, Oriental Mindoro, Marinduque and Camarines provinces will have cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. Flashfloods or […]

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Climate change biggest threat to natural World Heritage sites

by Nina LARSON Agence France-Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Climate change has become the biggest threat to UN-listed natural world heritage sites like glaciers and wetlands, and has pushed Australia’s Great Barrier Reef into “critical” condition, conservationists said Wednesday. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) revealed in a new report that shifts due to the changing climate now imperil a full third of the 252 UNESCO-listed natural sites around the globe. Overall, 94 […]

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Namibia defends drilling in unique biodiversity site

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AFP) — Namibia’s environment minister on Thursday defended a decision to allow oil and gas drilling in a biodiversity hotspot and near UN-listed cave paintings believed to be thousands of years old. Canada-based firm ReconAfrica is set to begin drilling this month in the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA) — a unique ecological site spanning parts of Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The petroleum exploration company secured rights in 2014 to drill […]

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MIAA releases list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Dec. 4

(Eagle News) — The Manila International Airport Authority has released its list of operational commercial flights for Friday, Dec. 4: Flight schedules may be subject to changes. Passengers were advised to confirm their flights on the day they are supposed to be scheduled. MIAA has said only those with the confirmation will be allowed entry into the airport premises. Domestic travel is allowed but subject to the requirements of the local government unit that has […]

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President Duterte to UN: “Gross injustice” if countries not given access to COVID-19 vaccine due to “poverty or strategic unimportance”

(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Dec. 3, reiterated his call for “universal access to safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and technologies,” noting that it would be a “gross injustice that will haunt the world for a long time” if any country was excluded “by reason of poverty or strategic unimportance.” In his pre-recorded message aired during the 31st Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in Response to the Coronavirus […]

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Davis agrees to five-year deal with Lakers, report

LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Los Angeles Lakers are poised to sign Anthony Davis to a five-year contract worth tens of millions of dollars just one day after they locked up superstar LeBron James with a two-year extension, the US media reported Thursday. Davis’ contract is worth $190 million and it comes on the heels of his first season in Los Angeles where he combined with James to lead the Lakers to their […]

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China mulls joining trade pact dumped by Trump: Xi

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP) — China will consider joining a free trade pact once championed by the US but abandoned by Donald Trump, President Xi Jinping said Friday, as Beijing increasingly seeks to influence the global rules of commerce. The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) is an updated version of a giant deal originally backed by former US president Barack Obama as an effort to counter China’s rising might in Asia. Trump […]

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