Poor workers trying to feed families jailed, abused in coronavirus lockdowns
KUALA LUMPUR/NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation)— Poor workers have been arrested and beaten by police for trying to put food on the table during coronavirus lockdowns,...
‘Mass from home’: Here’s where you can virtually attend Holy Week mass celebrations
Several prominent Catholic churches in the Philippines posted schedules of the live broadcast of Holy Mass celebrations in observance of Holy Week. The Luzon-wide enhanced...
‘Virtual Visita Iglesia’ made possible via a decade-old website of CBCP
The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has a website that offers an interactive view of some of the churches in the Philippines...
Lani Mercado mistakenly refers to COVID-19 as ‘COVID-14’ in video message
The phrase "COVID-14" landed on the top trending list of local Twitter because of a video message by Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado where...
Zoom sued for overstating, not disclosing privacy, security flaws
Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and...
Filipinos are helping daily wage earners affected by COVID-19 quarantine through Facebook groups
Filipinos are maximizing Facebook groups to help daily wage earners who are the most affected during the enhanced community quarantine over Luzon.
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Facebook group "SuperTsuper"...
Dole Philippines or DOLE? A Facebook user who mistook the two received P5,000 worth...
A local fruit company gave P5,000 worth of its products to a Facebook user who previously mistook it as the labor agency. On Wednesday, fruit...
‘We smile as one’ tribute video: Resilience, compassion and a classic tune
The Department of Tourism over the weekend released a tribute video dedicated to today's heroes, the COVID-19 frontliners. “As a tribute to our modern-day heroes,...
Urgent probe sought into barangay captain’s ‘sexy dance’ punishment for curfew violators
A barangay captain’s move to punish curfew violators by making them perform lewd acts and then airing it on social media is also a...
Ateneo praised for decision to pass students and give tuition fee refunds
Ateneo de Manila University will give its students passing marks and refunds to their tuition fees in response to the global health crisis spurred...
People allowed to leave China’s Wuhan as coronavirus lockdown eases
WUHAN, China— The central Chinese city of Wuhan began allowing people to leave on Wednesday for the first time since it was locked down 76 days...
Largest supermoon of 2020 rises on a world battling COVID-19
The largest, brightest supermoon of 2020 rose in the night sky on Tuesday over hushed cities, stilled factories and countries in lockdown due to the...
In fight for masks, hospital janitors sometimes come last
Katina McDavis spends 40 hours a week cleaning hospital rooms at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Masks are in short supply these days. So,...
Teddy Locsin apologizes for tweet ‘stigmatizing’ people with HIV
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. apologized to the community of people afflicted with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) after he tweeted that being...
Duterte once again claimed that COVID-19 is ‘in the air.’ But here’s what health...
President Rodrigo Duterte made a misleading statement during his late-night national address that the novel coronavirus is airborne when health organizations repeatedly said it...