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Philippine COVID-19 Vaccine Roadmap

From a paper delivered during the Dec. 10 webinar, “Health and Economic Outlook for 2021—Sparking Hope: Will a Vaccine see an end to the Pandemic?” conducted by the Philippines Graphic-BusinessMirror, in partnership with the Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP). This morning,...

All about sparking hope: Will a vaccine see an end to the COVID-19 pandemic?

Pfizer Senior Director Dr. Amgad Gamil put it succinctly: “We don’t know up until now everything about the virus. We don’t know everything until now about the COVID-19 disease or the SARS coronavirus and we are just learning every day.” When the COVID-19 pandemic...

How not to let COVID-19 steal Christmas

(A historical view of the new coronavirus pandemic) The year 2020 will go down in history for most people as the year of broken dreams. Unless you happened to be extraordinarily fortunate, personal and collective plans made for 2020 were shattered. Even worse, there...

A last look at 2020

Australian bushfire A raging bushfire engulfed Australia’s Kangaroo Island on Jan. 3. For five months, from October 2019 until March 2020, several bush fires blazed all over Australia. Scientists believe that the destruction wrought by the summer bushfire is unprecedented globally. In January alone, the...

This month in the Philippines Graphic

December is the month of Christmas when happiness and hope spill from the heart to fill a world made weary by conflict and contagion. At least, that’s how the story’s been told for thousands of years since Christianity began. And whether one is...

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Lotto stories

In a lotto station a block away from my home was a long line of people handing out their lotto cards to the cashier....

FFW Welcomes House Passage of ₱200 Wage Hike: ‘That was a Dunk Shot on 3rd Reading’

The Federation of Free Workers (FFW) has welcomed the passage of the ₱200 nationwide minimum wage hike bill on third and final reading in...

From BEPZ to FAB: The story of Mariveles, Bataan

A World War gave this province its place in humanity’s darkest history and made this war-torn fishing village one of two starting points to...

Workers Party of the Philippines (WPP) launches bid for 2025 Senatorial polls

FFW president Sonny Matula leads WPP senatorial slate Labor leader and Federation of Free Workers (FFW) President, Atty. Sonny Matula, officially assumed the leadership of...