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By Bombo Reymund Tinaza -March 26, 2021 | 1:55 PM105 Pinayagan na ng Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of the Emerging Infectious Diseasesd (IATF) na magkaroon ng religious gatherings isang beses kada araw mula Abril 1 hanggang 4 o sa Semana Santa. Sinabi ni Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque, hanggang 10 porsyento lamang ang seating capacity sa loob ng mga simbahan. “Mabuting balita po para sa gustong magsimba ngayong Semana Santa, pinayagan po ng inyong IATF ang once a day religious gatherings mula a-uno hanggang a-kwatro ng Abril,” ani Sec. Roque. Ayon kay Sec. Roque, kailangan sumunod sa mga minimum health protocols laban COVID-19 ang mga magsisimba. “Dahil dito ang mga religious denominations ay kinakailangan sundin at ipatupad ang mga sumusunod na karagdagang mga controls bukod pa sa mga dating nilang ginagawang hakbang bilang pag-iingat sa kumakalat na Covid-19 habang sila ay nagsasagawa ng kanilang mga religious services o activities,” dagdag ni Sec. Roque. Iniha...

Reuters Posted at Mar 26 2021 02:25 PM People cover with plastic in case of a water canon during a rally against the military coup and to demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in Yangon, Myanmar, on February 9, 2021. Stringer, Reuters Myanmar anti-coup protesters staged more rallies on Friday after the military reportedly shot dead nine people a day earlier and as the World Bank warned the country's economy could slump 10% this year due to the turmoil. In a bid to increase pressure on the junta over the February 1 coup, the United States and Britain imposed sanctions on conglomerates controlled by the military, with Washington calling it a response to the military's "brutal repression". Candle-lit protests took place across the country overnight including in the Mandalay and Sagaing regions, as well as in Karen and Chin states, media reports said In Myanmar's second city of Mandalay, protesters marched on Friday morning in front of a "c...

Rudy Santos (The Philippine Star ) - March 15, 2021 - 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — Saudi Arabia is abolishing the kafala sponsorship system, giving all foreign workers, especially overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the freedom to enter and exit the country without seeking an employer’s permission. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development announced in November last year that it would implement this month new conditions under which expatriate workers in the Kingdom can benefit, with the aim of improving the kafala sponsorship system in the Kingdom. Recruitment and migration expert Manny Geslani said from now on, OFWs can ask to change employers, leave the country upon the expiration of their contracts and be allowed more liberal conditions from their employers. This is especially applicable to Filipino household service workers who are prone to having abusive employers, since the kafala was considered a form of slavery, according to the United Nations.

By JAMIL SANTOS, GMA News Published March 24, 2021 4:35pm Israel and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to vaccinate overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) for deployment in their countries, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said on Wednesday. POEA administrator Bernard Olalia said their agency has recently approved the deployment of more than 400 caregivers, who are currently undergoing their interviews. "Napapayag po natin ang bansang Israel na isama sa vaccination program 'yung ating caregivers pagdating nila sa kanilang workplaces," he said at the V-Cafe @ DOLE briefing, adding that Filipino nurses will be included as well. (Israel has agreed to include in their vaccination program our caregivers when they arrive at their workplaces.) A number of Filipino household service workers (HSWs), meanwhile, are also set to be deployed at UAE. "Pumayag din po ang UAE government na isama sa vaccination program 'yung mga OFWs natin (The UAE g...

Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder, Joey Concepcion March 24, 2021 - Folllowing the confusion circulating regarding the private sector access to vaccines, Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship and Go Negosyo Founder, Joey Concepcion, highlighted that the government was instrumental in making it possible for the private sector to acquire vaccines for its employees and economic frontliners. "When the AstraZeneca vaccines were made available around October to November, we had talks with AstraZeneca on how we can procure the vaccines for our employees and our government frontline workers. Knowing their non-profit program for the year 2020-2021, we told AstraZeneca that given the world’s limited supply, we would want to share and extend half of our orders for the government’s frontline workers,” Concepcion forwarded. Under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) status of all the vaccines around the world, vaccines can only be procured by the gov...

Shay Cullen The International Day of Forest is today, 21 March. Forests are of vital importance to the well-being of all creatures, the natural world and especially humankind. They absorb most of the damaging CO2 that causes climate change. Their protection and restoration should be of highest national priority of each nation to hold back global warming from rising above 1.5 degrees celsius and avert the catastrophe that is to come. Forests are vital for retaining and releasing water the whole year-round, preventing draught and providing clean water and protection from landslides and soil erosion in the typhoon season. In the Philippines and other nations that have suffered deforestation, there is severe low crop yield that causes food insecurity due to massive rains and typhoons because of soil erosion. In some provinces, 50 percent of the rich topsoil has been washed away and more to come. There are no more forests to hold the water back. The Philippines, once self-sufficient i...

Published March 17, 2021 6:02pm The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has suspended the license of the manning agency of around ten seafarers who were abandoned by their employer in Fiji, one of its officials said Wednesday. In a live briefing, POEA administrator Bernard Olalia said the POEA checked if the Able Maritime Agency conducted significant efforts to help the seafarers. “[N]akita po namin na nagkulang ‘yung manning agency sa pag-monitor sa ating mga seafarers kaya po agad-agad po tayong nag-impose ng disciplinary action which led to the documentary suspension of the license of the manning agency,” he said. (We saw that the manning agency was lacking in its efforts to monitor our seafarers so we immediately imposed disciplinary action, which led to the disciplinary suspension of the license of the manning agency.) Olalia added that the employer has also been disallowed from hiring and recruiting seafarers. “They failed to give an update, significant r...