MANILA – The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) has successfully launched a fourth satellite made by Filipino scientists. At 1:36 a.m. on Sunday, February 21, the International Space Station (ISS) launched the “Maya-2 CubeSat” developed by three Filipino student engineers. “To do something for the first time is great, but to be able to…
Following the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrest of a law firm employee within the Bureau of Immigration (BI) for allegedly facilitating entry visas of Chinese who are still in China, that the Immigration bureau to conduct a more in-depth investigation into such incident. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said it immediately issued a directive for…
The people of Texas are still in trouble due to the water crisis after the power supply was restored to nearly two million households. The 13 million Texans were first notified, which is equivalent to about half of the state’s 29 million residents to boil water before drinking.
Miss Philippines Samantha Bernardo from Palawan will represent the country in the Miss Grand International competition to be held in Thailand on March 27. She will be leaving for Thailand on February 24, 2021. Miss Grand Philippines 2020 is Samantha Bernardo, an empowered woman from the Philippines’ Last Frontier, Palawan. She stands 5 feet…
NASA is happy because the Perseverance rover did not have any damage when it landed on the planet Mars. A few minutes before it landed, the rover checked immediately and did not find any problems. The rover was considered the first helicopter to fly to another planet. It will rotate the Jezero Crater the so-called…
GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Pinay boxer Nesthy Petecio is mourning the death of her former teammate. Alexcel Dargantes from Barangay Bula, GenSan, was returned to the city yesterday after allegedly committing suicide in Baguio City. According to Petecio, she met Dargantes in 2013 when she joined the training until she became close friends. Just this…
MANILA – Health Sec. Francisco Duque III that the detected mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Central Visayas will not affect the possibility of easing quarantine measures in Metro Manila. “It will not affect it because NCR is (a) different region,” Duque said in a press briefing. On Thursday, the Department of Health Regional Office…
Typhoon Auring has intensified in recent hours. According to Pagasa severe weather bulletin # 3 this afternoon, from the tropical depression, this category has become a tropical storm category. The epicenter was reported 685 km southeast of Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur. It is moving slowly as it heads in a northwest direction. It has a…
Malacañang stressed that President Rodrigo Duterte not only read the Constitution but studied and memorized it because he was a lawyer and passed the Bar examination where the Constitution was included in the subject area. This is Malacañang’s response to the statement made by Sen. Ping Lacson that President Duterte should read the 1987 Constitution…
This is a notice of slightly increased seismic activity and Main Crater Lake changes at Taal Volcano. Taal Volcano’s monitoring network recorded a series of fifty (50) relatively weak tremor episodes beginning 5:00 AM until 3:00 PM today, 15 February 2021. These tremor episodes ranged in duration from two (2) to five (5) minutes and…
