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Immigration bureau: All offices in NCR Plus area to continue to operate with skeleton workforce

(Eagle News) — All Bureau of Immigration offices in the NCR Plus area will continue to operate with a skeleton workforce until May 14. The bureau made the announcement about its offices in Metro Manila, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, and Rizal following the extension of the modified enhanced community quarantine in those areas starting May 1. According to the bureau, all those immigration offices shall operate up to a maximum of 50 percent of the workforce […]

Skeleton with stone-encrusted teeth found in Mexico ancient ruins

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Archeologists have discovered near Mexico’s ancient ruins of Teotihuacan the 1,600-year-old skeleton of an upper-class woman whose skull was intentionally deformed and teeth were encrusted with mineral stones. The woman, between 35 and 40 years old when she died, was buried with 19 jars that served as offerings, the National Anthropology and History Institute said. Her cranium was elongated by being compressed in a “very extreme” manner, a technique commonly […]