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After saliva COVID-19 test, here comes anal test. Your butt can breathe for now—it’s only in China

If you thought swab tests were invasive, wait till you hear this: Chinese officials have begun anal testing Beijing residents; says it’s more effective

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Chinese telco Dito’s new violation? Disturbing Cordilleran IP community’s ancestral land

The National Commission on Indigenous People has issued a show cause order to the Chinese company for its alleged violation of the Indigenous community’s ancestral domain rights

Before PSG, 100k Chinese POGO workers got same COVID-19 vaccine as early as Nov 2019

Is this good or bad news? If you ask Chinese-Filipino civic leader Teresita Ang See, it’s OK, “because we do not have much control (over) them”

No, Duterte is not joking. He stands by using gasoline as disinfectant in the absence of alcohol

Remember when President Rodrigo Duterte said “Kung wala kayo [alcohol]—if you want to disinfect, maghanap…

VP Robredo to gov’t: Stop importing PPEs, support local producers

The Office of the Vice President works with local community sewers to produce PPEs and distribute them to frontliners across the country

OPINION: ‘Iisang Dagat’ is propaganda under the guise of “bayanihan”

Even after the Philippines won sovereignty over the West Philippine Sea through the Arbitral Tribunal…

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Make China pay for damaged reefs and activities in West PH sea, Hontiveros urges execs

On Apr. 27, Senator Risa Hontiveros filed a resolution urging the executive department to exert…

Nikki Luna’s ‘Rape of Seas’ is a seething commentary on Duterte’s failure to protect PH territory

With the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) repealed recently by President Rodrigo Duterte, the West Philippine…

From China to Philippines: The humble origins of noodles

There is a prevailing narrative on the origin of our localized version of Chinese noodles, one…

Corona virus confirmed in PH, here's what to do next
Coronavirus confirmed in PH, here’s what to do next

The first case of the nCov or the novel coronavirus has now been confirmed in…