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...
‘Wash! Wash! Wash!’: Pikotaro’s 2020 PPAP song encourages handwashing
Remember the Japanese comedian-singer who is behind the hit song “Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen” or “PPAP”? He is back with a reminder to wash your hands amid the...
Duterte asks finance chief to ‘generate’ more funds for COVID-19 response despite P275B budget
President Rodrigo Duterte in his latest late night address ordered Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III to "generate" more funds for the government's response to...
Is DENR’s memo vs employees’ online dissent against free speech?
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources released a memorandum discouraging its employees from posting criticisms against the government’s COVID-19 efforts on social media. The memo...