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Endemic na talaga CEBU CITY, Philippines—As far as local officials in Cebu province are concerned, wearing of face masks in outdoor areas will remain an option. This after the Provincial Board on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, passed unanimously an ordinance effectively adopting the Executive Order (EO) No. 16 of Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia which rationalizes the use of face masks in the province. The Provincial Board held a special session on Tuesday to discuss the proposal which was authored by Board Member, lawyer John Ismael Borgonia, of Cebu’s 3rd District. It took the legislative body roughly 30 minutes to pass the ordinance on its first, second and final reading. There were only minor amendments made on the ordinance draft...

People watch a news program on North Korea's missile launch, at a train station in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday, 25 May, 2022. Source: AAP / AP Published 5 June 2022 at 12:39pm Source: AFP,Reuters,SBS North Korea launched eight ballistic missiles off its east coast on Sunday, South Korea's military said, after Seoul and Washington staged their first joint drills involving a US aircraft carrier in more than four years. North Korea fired eight short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast on Sunday, a day after South Korea and the United States wrapped up their first combined military exercises involving an American aircraft carrier in more than four years. The missiles were fired from the Sunan area of the...

Nagbanta ang China na handa itong makipag-giyera upang mapigilan ang deklarasyon ng kalayaan ng Taiwan. Ibinabala rin ni chinese defense minister Wei Fenghe na namemeligro ring madamay sa kanilang internal issue ang mga bansang nanghihimasok, tulad ng USA. Sinuman anyang magtangkang itiwalag ang Taiwan sa China ay tiyak na kanilang sasagupain anuman ang mangyari. Iginiit din ng chinese official na walang makapipigil sa Reunification ng China at Taiwan. China, handang makipag-giyera kung magdedeklara ng kalayaan ang Taiwan

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The photo immediately became viral and even caught the attention on of Xian Gaza. Xian then took to his Facebook account to react to the famous rapper’s IG story. In his post, Xian tagged Skusta Clee and said that if he is in the rapper’s shoes, he would publicize the photo via billboard, not through an IG story. As of this posting, Xian’s post already garnered over 65,000 FB reactions and almost 800 shares. Here is the post: Skusta Clee is a Filipino rapper and singer. He is also a songwriter and record producer. He is also a member of Ex Battalion, a popular Filipino hip-hop group. Last month, Zeinake Harake confirmed that she and Skusta Clee have already parted ways. During her guesting on Toni Gonzaga's "Toni Talks." the...

PLDT and their wireless unit Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) said they have doubled their efforts to protect customers against "smishing" during the first five months of 2022. In a statement, the company said that most of the cybersecurity attacks via text messages that aim to s†éál the victim's personal data were blocked. They said that almost 78,000 SIMs related to smishing were blocked, which is more than double the number compared to the same period in 2021. The statement further noted that since the start of 2022, the PLDT Group has been blocking, on average, more than 15,000 SIMs tied to fraudulent activity every month. This was made possible by the additional tools employed by PLDT and Smart that are coupled with expanded...

Incoming National Security Adviser (NSA) Clarita Carlos on Thursday said the Marcos administration will pursue a "critical engagement" with China amid the dispute in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Interviewed on GMA News’ Unang Balita, Carlos said she and President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. discussed the country's relationship with China during a meeting on Wednesday. “You mentioned the magic word ‘critical,’ yan ang isa sa mga napag-usapan namin ni President Marcos kahapon [that is among the topics that I discussed with President Marcos yesterday],” she said. “Yes, critical engagement with China would be the way to go and President Marcos already noted it will still be enhanced on all levels,” she added. In a separate...

Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst Berlin’s Ringtausch project, in which Germany will supply states with modern weapons if they give up former Eastern bloc made weapons and send them to Ukraine, serves to make a profit not only for Germany, but also the entire Western defence industry. Poland, Czechia, Slovenia and Greece have already joined the German initiative. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis agreed on the project during their May 31 meeting. Now the two countries’ defence ministers are active in this arms exchange program and have also reached an agreement on what Greek media say is the opening of a German arms factory in northern Greece. The investment is said...

Taiwan on Monday reported the largest incursion since January by China's air force in its air defence zone, with the island's defence ministry saying Taiwanese fighters scrambled to warn away 30 aircraft in the latest uptick in tensions. Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory, has complained for the past two years or so of repeated missions by China's air force near the democratically governed island, often in the southwestern part of its air defence identification zone, or ADIZ, close to the Taiwan-controlled Pratas Islands. Taiwan calls China's repeated nearby military activities "grey zone" warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan's forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan's responses. The latest...

US President Joe Biden on Thursday congratulated former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who is poised to win the presidency with a huge lead over his rivals, saying Washington will work closely with his administration to continue America’s strong alliance with the Philippines, Manila's top envoy to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez said. Biden, on board the Air Force One from Chicago, called Marcos around 9 a.m., Romualdez told GMA News Online. “It was a very good conversation,” he said. “Biden reassured Marcos Jr. that we, the US, would like to work with him and continue our relations.” In a separate statement, the White House confirmed the phone call between Biden and Marcos. “President Biden underscored that he looks forward...

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has been proclaimed the president-elect of the Philippines, undoing the legacy of a democratic revolt that ousted his dictator father from office in 1986. Congress declared Marcos Jr. the presidential poll winner on Wednesday after he amassed more than 31 million votes in the official tally. His running mate Sara Duterte-Carpio, daughter of outgoing autocrat Rodrigo Duterte, was proclaimed vice president-elect with some 32 million votes. The incoming administration thus unites the two leading political dynasties of the Southeast Asian country of 110 million. Both the president and the vice president are limited to a six-year term under the Philippine constitution. Marcos Jr. and Duterte-Carpio will...

MANILA, Philippines — “China cannot find a greater champion than my mother in the Philippines,” President-elect Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. said of former first lady Imelda Marcos. This, as the Association for Philippines-China Understanding (APCU) and the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines on Friday honored Imelda in a ceremony in Makati along with other awardees. The former first lady was among those inducted into APCU and the embassy’s Hall of Fame in 2021 for “strengthening friendly ties and promoting mutual understanding.” “Thank you for putting in the Hall of Fame my mother and—I may be biased—I think it is just right because China cannot find a greater champion than my mother in the Philippines,” said Marcos Jr., who was...

Turkey has steadily continued to voice its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak reported that Turkey has set Sweden and Finland 10 conditions for lifting the veto on their NATO membership. The conditions reportedly include: Support for Turkey in its fight against terrorist organizations, including the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, DHKP/C, DAESH, FETO and their affiliates. Establishment of “legal norms” and “legal infrastructure” in Sweden and Finland to combat terrorism. The countries should stop attempts to open representative offices of Kurds on their territories. To prevent the activities of FETO and to close the media affiliated with the organization. Comply with the requirements to freeze the...

The Department of Finance (DOF) has ordered the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to cut off electricity supply to Maguindanao Electric Cooperative (MAGELCO) and Lanao del Sur Electric Cooperative (LASURECO) for failure to pay their combined outstanding obligations amounting to over P16 billion. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez has instructed PSALM to strictly enforce its credit and collection policy against MAGELCO and LASURECO. DOF said it is not PSALM’s mandate to subsidize electricity costs and that the agency does not have the budget to do so. MAGELCO and LASURECO’s poor payment performance has been a long-standing problem, stemming from both cooperatives’ financial mismanagement and low collection...

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The battle for the city of Severodonetsk continues. As of June 7, all the city districts are under control of Russian-led forces. Fighting continues in the industrial area, on the territory of the Azot chemical plant. Russian Minister of Defence confirmed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) were repelled from the residential areas. destruction in the Azot chemical plant Despite the threat of the encirclement of the Severodonetsk-Lisichansk metropolitan area, the Ukrainian military command continues reinforcement of the AFU units deployed in the region. According to local reports, the Ukrainian special forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (GUR) headed by major general Kirilo Budanov...

Illustrative Image Early on June 4, the first reports confirmed that Russian and Ukraine exchanged bodies of dead servicemen. The exchange procedure was carried out at the contact line in the Zaporozhye region, which is one of the most stable front lines in Eastern Ukraine. The exact area of the exchange was not revealed. 160 bodies of the dead Ukrainian servicemen were exchanged for 160 bodies of Russians. Negotiations on the exchange of the bodies of dead servicemen were previously held between the Human rights Commissioners. Apparently, an agreement was reached.

Ukrainian service members manning a FH70 howitzer in the Donbass region The Ukrainian authorities are urging Western countries to supply the country with huge batches of modern weapons. However, Kiev is already facing problems in justifying the trust of its ‘allies’, as the AFU (Armed Forces of Ukraine) have not made much progress so far. In their turn, Western countries continue to supply weapons. The video shows the loading of the famous American M113 armored personnel carrier. Russian servicemen have previously encountered similar armored personnel carriers, Turkish ACV-15 armored personnel carriers, which are a modern modification of the M113, in Syria. Some of the armored vehicles were hit by aircraft, while others were destroyed...

The landing ship Georgiy Pobedonosec on exercises in the Barents Sea. Source: the Russian Ministry of Defense (https://мультимедиа.минобороны.рф/multimedia/photo/gallery.htm?id=24858@cmsPhotoGallery) A Russian Navy task force made up of 12 landing ships from the Northern, Baltic and Black Sea fleets is ready to perform combat tasks in the Black Sea, a Crimean security source told the TASS news agency on June 3. According to the source, the task force includes the Pyotr Morgunov, Olenegorsky Gornyak and Georgy Pobedonosets landing ships from the Northern Fleet, the Korolev, Minsk and Kaliningrad landing ships from the Baltic Fleet and the Yamal, Orsk and Nikolay Filchenkov from the Balck Sea Fleet. All the landing ships are from the...

Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in Mariinka; The AFU reportedly launched counter attack in the city of Severodonetsk; Russian forces claimed full control over the village of Komyshuvakha; Russian forces took control of the village of Shchurove; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in the north of Toshkivka; Clashes between the AFU and Russian forces continue in Zolote.

Vladimir Putin may already be dead as rumours spiral about the Russian leader's death, MI6 sources say. They claim that a body double may have been used for the president's recent appearances, as Kremlin officials would be keen to cover up his death in a bid to cling onto power. There has been much speculation about Putin's wellbeing in the last few months, with the 69-year-old's face appearing bloated and some alleging he his suffering from blood cancer. Senior MI6 bosses say the world leader has been seriously ill in recent times, but that his death would likely not be made public for some time.

Late on June 4, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) deployed large reinforcements near the town of Ain Issa in the northern Raqqa countryside, which is controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SAA and the Russian Military Police established a network of positions in SDF-held areas in northeastern Syria in 2019 to reinforce a de-escalation agreement that froze the conflict between the group and Turkish forces. The positions spread from the northwestern Aleppo countryside to the northern Raqqa countryside and the northern countryside of al-Hasakah. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the reinforcement that arrived in Ain Issa included several battle tanks, armored vehicles, howitzers and...

The Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed the Czech-made RM-70 MLRS in Severodonetsk. In mid-April, it was revealed that the Czech Republic had sent two dozen RM-70 MLRS to Ukraine. The first evidence of the RM-70 MLRS deployment near the combat zone only on May 10. The RM-70 (Raketomet vzor 1970) is a Czechoslovak version of the Soviet MLRS BM-21 “Grad”. The first RM-70 was brought into service in 1971. The Czech Republic has long since decommissioned its RM-70 and has now found a way to get rid of such equipment in storage providing it to the Ukrainian Army.

(UPDATE) THE United States on Thursday backed the Philippines in criticizing a unilateral seasonal ban on fishing declared by Beijing in the dispute-rife South China Sea. The State Department pointed to a 2016 ruling by a court in The Hague that rejected Beijing's claims, as well as the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, ratified by China although not by the United States. "The PRC's unilateral fishing moratorium in the South China Sea is inconsistent with the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal ruling and international law," State Department spokesman Ned Price wrote on Twitter, using an acronym for the People's Republic of China. "We call upon the PRC to abide by its obligations under international law." The Philippines, a treaty-bound ally...

MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Leni Robredo has yet to consider the possibility of returning to the government as she is currently focused on finishing her term and preparing for the non-government organization she intends to launch on July 1, her spokesperson said. © Joselle Reyes for Philstar.com‘Return to government still out of Robredo’s mind’ “As of now, the focus of VP Leni is to finish her term smoothly and have an orderly transition and closure of the programs of the OVP (Office of the Vice President) under her leadership,” Robredo’s spokesperson Barry Gutierrez said in Filipino during an interview with One PH’s “Sa Totoo Lang” on Wednesday night. “She is also (preparing) to be a private citizen who will work as part of...

Amid the ongoing media campaign aimed at discrediting the Russian military, facts and footage from the war-torn regions confirm that Russian servicemen are acting in accordance with the law of war and that the order to avoid the destruction of civilian infrastructure given by the Russian military command is strictly observed. Another prove of the respect of the norms of humanity by Russian forces in Ukraine are the leaflet distributed among the Russian servicemen:

Events on the battlefields of Ukraine over the last month show that Russia is quite clearly winning the war. Although you would not know this, from any articles or news broadcasts in the Western media. Since late February, the collective Western media has engaged in a quite deliberate misinformation campaign whose central narrative is that Russia has suffered huge casualties in men and materials while suffering numerous defeats at the hands of the Ukrainian forces. That is some defeat when Russia and DPR/LPR forces control over 20% of Ukraine’s territory. This misinformation campaign asserts that Russia failed in its attempt to capture Kiev and Kharkov during the early stages of the current war. Of course, anyone with an elementary...

Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Raigorodok with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Nikolaevka with high-precision missiles; On May 30, 290 AFU members were killed and 23 weapons and military equipment were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Donetsk, Makeevka in the Donetsk region, Popasnaya in the Lugansk region, Liptsy, Bolshie Prokhody in the Kharkiv region.

Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Raigorodok with high-precision missiles; Russia attacked military assets of the AFU near Nikolaevka with high-precision missiles; On May 30, 290 AFU members were killed and 23 weapons and military equipment were destroyed by the Russian Armed Forces, according to the Russian MOD; Russian air defense systems shot down 6 Ukrainian drones near Donetsk, Makeevka in the Donetsk region, Popasnaya in the Lugansk region, Liptsy, Bolshie Prokhody in the Kharkiv region.