Aug 17, 2021, Lian Buan MANILA, Philippines The biggest chunk of the amount went to the vocational training agency’s regional office in Davao Despite lacking authority, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) transferred P160 million to the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) in 2020, an act that auditors found to…
By: Tony S. Bergonia -INQUIRER.net / August 16, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—The spread of Delta, a variant of SARS Cov2, is now considered as a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” which is making vaccination a more urgent measure to fight COVID-19 even if rare infections emerge among those already fully vaccinated. Scientists are one in concluding that…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter/INQUIRER.net /August 14, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino scholars at a European Union (EU) educational program are among the best performing students, the EU Delegation to the Philippines revealed on Friday. Aside from having more than 40 Erasmus+ scholars who have either graduated with honors or those who had their…
By: Gabriel Pabico Lalu – Reporter / INQUIRER.net /August 13, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Lawyers representing the families of drug war victims have asked the International Criminal Court (ICC) to pursue its full-blown investigation into President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody campaign, claiming that it is the last hope for justice. According to lawyers Neri Colmenares and…
By: Cristina Eloisa Baclig – Content Researcher Writer/INQUIRER.net /August 12, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. was not exaggerating when he described the ongoing repatriation of Filipinos from various countries as the biggest in Philippine history. The last mass repatriation of this magnitude took place in 1991 when 20,000 to 30,000 Filipinos were…
Kyoko Hasegawa (Agence France-Presse) – August 9, 2021 TOKYO, Japan — The Japanese city of Nagasaki on Monday commemorated the 76th anniversary of its destruction by a US atomic bomb, with the mayor calling for the global community to build on a new nuclear ban treaty. Nagasaki was flattened in an atomic inferno that killed…
By: Tetch Torres-Tupas – Reporter/INQUIRER.net / August 09, 2021 MANILA, Philippines—The Supreme Court has acted on the plea of advocacy groups and human rights defenders to address the “worsening state of human rights in the country.” In a letter submitted last May, the advocates urged the high court to take a second look at existing…
The Straits Times/Asia News Network / August 08, 2021 SINGAPORE — The Delta variant of the coronavirus has played havoc with governments’ plans to return life to some sense of normality. Fresh outbreaks fueled by the highly infectious strain have forced major cities in China, Australia, the Philippines and elsewhere back into lockdown and spurred the…