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SSS self-employed, voluntary membership up by 20.2%

The number of self-employed and voluntary members (SEVMs) of the Social Security System (SSS) has increased by 20.2% to 8.43 million as of May 2021.   SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Aurora...

U.S.-donated J&J vaccines begin to arrive in BARMM; gov’t prioritizes vulnerable and border communities

The National Task Force (NTF) Against COVID-19 and National Vaccination Operations Center (NVOC) began the deployment of the first batch of the Janssen vaccines to the Bangsamoro Administrative Region in Muslim...

3 terror group members neutralized, war materials seized in Maguindanao

Camp Navarro, Calarian, Zamboanga City, July 18, 2021 - A member of the Daulah Islamiyah-Hassan Group (DI-HG) was killed while two others were apprehended in a military operation conducted in Maguindanao on July 17.

P7.8-M worth of marijuana seized in Kalinga after citizen’s tip

A total of P7.8-million worth of marijuana bricks were seized after authorities obtained information that the illegal drugs were to be transported from Kalinga to Cagayan. Various police units set up a...

DOT calls for lowering of testing price cap, certification of more saliva test facilities

The Department of Tourism (DOT) has urged health facilities to lower the cost of RT-PCR (reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction) tests for COVID-19, to encourage more people to travel and hasten...

DOLE: Deployment to Israel underway

The deployment of Filipino workers to Israel is much underway following the lifting of the government’s suspension of its deployment in May, the labor department reported on Thursday. Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello...

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