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Ayala Group pivots to adapt amid pandemic The Ayala Group is working to find a balance between protecting lives and restoring livelihoods as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PayMaya penetrates more market Digital financial services firm PayMaya has penetrated more sectors as the need for cashless payments soared to new heights due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Eagle Cement net profit down 61% in 1st half Eagle Cement Corp., the listed cement company owned by the Ang family, continued to make profits in the first half of the year although lower than year-ago figures even as the economy fell into a recession.
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No second chances: We have fewer options The country’s economic projections have increasingly become difficult to measure as the new coronavirus infections rear up at the most unexpected moments.
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EDITORIAL - Proper screening Filipinos continue returning en masse from different countries, most of them workers who lost their jobs abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Mixing traditional and distance classes When schools open on Aug. 24, many of the expected 20-million+ students will not be in the usual classrooms but at home taking distance lessons being introduced to protect them from the resurging COVID-19 pandemic.
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Costly Quarantine is purgatory.
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Put an end to nuclear arms Yes, we mourn the passing of former Manila mayor Alfredo Lim who died last Saturday at the age of 90.
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One miracle after another I had an interesting conversation with Angel Lazaro III, managing partner of Angel Lazaro International, one of the country’s top engineering consulting firms, about the effect of the enhanced community quarantine on his company and family.
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Stakeholders in the present They say that the children are our future (and if that line does not remind you of a song, you’re probably one of those children yourself).
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Philippines in talks with 4 countries for COVID-19 vaccine The Philippine government is in talks with pharmaceutical firms from four countries that are leading in the development of COVID-19 vaccines, the Department of Finance said yesterday.
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Meralco cuts rates for 4th straight month The Manila Electric Co. yesterday announced its rates would go down for the fourth straight month this August amid a sufficient supply due to lower demand, stronger peso and lower oil prices.
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‘Government still in control of pandemic’ The government claimed yesterday it has not lost control over the COVID-19 pandemic despite the country now leading Southeast Asia in number of cases, surpassing even China where the virus originated.
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Tourism body decries realignment of bailout fund A group yesterday asked the Senate and the House of Representatives to hew to the Department of Tourism P10-billion “bailout” plan to help tourism-related businesses that bore the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PhilHealth chief offers to go on medical leave Philippine Health Insurance Corp. president and chief executive officer Ricardo Morales has offered to take a “medical leave” following public disclosure that he is undergoing treatment for lymphoma or cancer of the lymph nodes.
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DOH: No need to ban rapid test kits The Department of Health is not about to ban the use of rapid antibody tests for COVID-19, saying it can still be used in some ways for coronavirus response.
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Five more Pinoys injured in Beirut blasts Five more Filipinos were found to have been injured in the explosions that shook Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, last week, raising the total number of those hurt to 47 from the previous 42, the Department of Foreign Affairs said yesterday.
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Las Piñas records 70 COVID-19 cases Las Piñas posted 70 fresh cases of coronavirus disease 2019 on Sunday, bringing to 1,419 the total number of COVID-19 infections in the city.
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Binays orders probe of nurse’s discrimination Makati Mayor Abby Binay yesterday ordered an investigation on the alleged discrimination against a nurse who was kicked out of her boarding house after testing positive for coronavirus disease 2019.
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Manila hospital reaches full capacity The Justice Jose Abad Santos General Hospital in Manila has stopped admitting non-COVID-19 patients after reaching full capacity.
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More aircraft debris sold to junk shops More pieces of aircraft wreckage have been sold to junk shops in the towns of Mercedes and Guiuan, both in Eastern Samar even before local fishermen discovered the same debris near a beach last week.
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5 Quezon villages on lockdown over ASF Five villages in this town have been placed on lockdown due to rising cases of African swine fever.
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15 accused in illegal takeover of Ilocos resort surrender Fifteen people accused of illegally taking over a government property in Cabugao, Ilocos Sur surrendered to authorities over the weekend.
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33 more cops get COVID-19 Thirty-three more police officers have tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19, the Philippine National Police reported on Sunday.

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