by Delon Porcalla (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Voting 224-0, the House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill that aims to institutionalize the alternative learning system in basic education for out-of-school individuals.

by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Starting September, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) will be offering a free contact tracing training program.

by Cathrine Gonzales, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Online classes may be extended to about seven to eight hours, as the coming school year should end by May next year, the Department of Education said Monday.

by Joanna Rose Aglibot, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 SUBIC, ZAMBALES —- The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) on Monday began the mass testing for over 200 port workers following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a port area inside the Subic Bay Freeport.

by (Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — As it gears towards the opening of classes on October, the Department of Education on Monday announced a number of benefits to be made available to public school teachers in the coming months.

by Darryl John Esguerra, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — There are currently 1,245 clusters of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection nationwide, the Department of Health (DOH) reported Monday.

by Joanna Rose Aglibot, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 17 Aug 2020 SUBIC, ZAMBALES —- Five power plant workers in Masinloc, Zambales have tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and could have been exposed to a co-worker who also contracted the virus, authorities said.

By Ian Nicolas Cigaral(Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE 1 7:05 a.m., Aug. 18) — Money sent home by Filipinos overseas snapped a three-month downtrend in June, helping narrow the six-month contraction as countries around the world start reopening their economies from coronavirus pandemic-led lockdowns.

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino senior citizens are forced to dip into their own savings to shoulder rising health costs that come with age, highlighting the insufficiency of public health resources that have come under intense scrutiny amid the pandemic and corruption allegations.

by Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Slower declines in economic output can be expected in the second and third quarters of the year leading to a full-year contraction of eight percent, according to a former head of the National Economic and Development Authority.

by Louella Desiderio (The Philippine Star), 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday issued guidelines for additional protocols in the workplace, which include designating an occupational safety and health (OSH) committee and officer and providing temporary isolation facilities for symptomatic employees.

by The Straits Times/Asia News Network, 16 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — By 1 pm, dietitian Violah Koh, 39, has already received her fifth package of the day: two plants, pots and some garden soil.

By JON VIKTOR D. CABUENAS,GMA News, 16 Aug 2020 Adult joblessness in the Philippines rose to a record-high of 45.5% in July with half of the unemployed saying they lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic, a recent poll of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) revealed.

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by Manila Standard, 16 Aug 2020 The number of overseas Filipino workers seeking assistance due to the effects of the COVID pandemic surged to more than 600,000, the labor department reported on Sunday.

By BusinessMirror, 16 Aug 2020 The mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant provides a massive background to science journalists’ photo op during their tour of the facility a few years back. The interest in nuclear power program is in high gear once again with government experts throwing their support for it after Malacañang gave a go…

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by Robertzon Ramirez (The Philippine Star), 15 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld its previous ruling allowing Mary Jane Veloso, the overseas Filipino worker on death row in Indonesia, to testify against her alleged illegal recruiters.

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The Civil Service Commission releases an update on the number of government employees, who were infected with Covid-19 as of 1:30 pm. @BusinessMirror pic.twitter.com/fhipqHDgRP — Samuel Medenilla (@sam_medenilla) August 14, 2020

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by Mayen Jaymalin (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2020 CALABARZON, Philippines — The transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 in workplaces has been blamed for the increase in cases in Calabarzon.

by Janvic Mateo (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — One in every three Filipino micro-entrepreneurs started a business during the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey conducted by web-hosting company GoDaddy showed.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 14 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Seventy-nine percent or four in five Filipinos have claimed that their lives worsened in the last 12 months, a recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey released Thursday has shown.

by Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star), 14 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Microcredit extended by GCash amounted to P2 billion in the first half, double the amount from the same period last year as the fintech compacontinues to provide more Filipinos access to alternative credit facility.

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