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Two days before the nation welcomes another year, Filipinos will commemorate Jose Rizal’s execution on Dec. 30, which the late president Emilio Aguinaldo first declared a holiday on Dec. 20, 1898.

Around 12.7 million children aged 12 to 17 are expected to get inoculated against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) following the government’s decision to expand the eligible recipients of the nationwide vaccination rollout.

What are the types of drug tests and how long does cocaine stay in the body? What is the most accurate test to detect these illegal substances?

The official campaign period has not started, but presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is already facing four petitions before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to prevent him from running in the May 2022 elections.

The House Committee on Ways and Means is moving to suspend or reduce excise taxes on selected fuel products as temporary relief for consumers amid skyrocketing prices of oil and petroleum products in the past few months.

Tensions ran high between the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) during the ninth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). The two government agencies did not see eye to eye on key issues involving novel tobacco products.

Twenty-seven days after Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. filed his certificate of candidacy (COC) at the Commission on Elections (Comelec), a group of civic leaders asked the poll body to cancel it for making “material false representations” on his “alleged eligibility to run” for the presidency in the 2022 elections.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has so far found “no grounds” to cancel its P536-million contract with F2 Logistics for the transport of equipment, supplies, and paraphernalia in the 2022 elections amid concerns of a possible “conflict of interest” raised by poll watchdogs.

Some 572 aspirants vying for national positions in the 2022 elections filed their certificates of candidacy (COC) from Oct. 1 to 8 at the Garden Tent, Hotel Sofitel in Pasay City.

The Commission on Elections (Comelec) en banc unanimously granted an extension of voter registration for 16 days between Oct. 11 and Oct. 30 to allow more people to participate in the May 2022 elections amid calls from public interest groups and Congress.

President Duterte cites history when he talks about Mindanao, but never mentions human rights abuses under Marcos.

As cases continue to grow in the country during the second half of 2021, misinformed claims that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are “ineffective and unsafe” keep circulating on social media.