MANILA (Philippines Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Portugal stands ready to export pork products to the Philippines as soon as it becomes an accredited supplier in two to three months, a group of Portuguese producers said.
Philippines police has asked the public to beware of fake news circulating on social media recently on supposed robberies in three different restaurants in Quezon City – a Japanese restaurant, a well-known coffee shop, and a Chinese restaurant.
Several schools and local government units in the Philippines have suspended in-person classes and work operations in anticipation of a seven-day work strike organised by several transport groups nationwide next week.
Families who lost loved ones in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs have invoked the right to object formally to the Philippine government’s effort to stop the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from investigating the thousands killed during the crackdown.
As most Grade 5 students in the Philippines and its poorer neighbours do not have the minimum reading and mathematical skills expected at the end of primary education, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) stressed the need to “harness the potential” of early childhood education (ECE).