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Labor department requires employees to have 5 min break every 2 hours

October 19, 2017

The Department of Labor and Employment is requiring companies to allow their workers who sit for long periods, to have five minute breaks every two hours. Based on Department Order No. 184-2017, it ordered employers and establishments to adopt the

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UN secretary general to attend ASEAN summit

October 19, 2017

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will join several world leaders including US President Donald Trump for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Manila on November, Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said Thursday. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese

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Duterte’s deadline to modernize jeeps “expression of urgency”: LTFRB

October 19, 2017

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) told a congressional committee Thursday that a deadline by President  Rodrigo Duterte to remove old jeepneys on January 1 2018 was  just an “expression of urgency”. “I’d like to put this in

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Three Russian navy ships arriving Friday for six-day visit

October 19, 2017

Three Russian navy vessels will arrive Friday for a six-day visit, the Philippine Navy said Thursday. Capt. Lued Lincuna, Philippine Navy spokesman, said Admiral Panteleyev, Admiral Vinogradov both anti-submarine ships, and large sea tanker Boris Butoma will arrive at Pier

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20 terrorists killed, military checking if Mahmoud among them: Ano

October 19, 2017

The military said 20 terrorist members were killed in a series of encounters in Marawi City and it is trying to find out if the alleged Malaysian financier of the nearly five-month long siege is among the casualties. Sixteen soldiers

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Duterte’s trip to Japan being finalized: Cayetano

October 19, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte is set to visit Japan again before the end of the year, Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said on Thursday. In an interview with reporters in Pasay City, Cayetano said it will be the Office of the

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Palace hopes Trillanes giving correct information to US

October 19, 2017

Malacanang expressed hope on Thursday that opposition Senator Antonio Trillanes IV gave an impartial information about the situation in the Philippines to the United States’ officials whom he talked with during his recent trip there. In a press briefing, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto

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Duterte says tirades of foreign critics done on purpose

October 19, 2017

President Rodrigo Duterte admitted his tirades against some foreign critics on his war on drugs were done on purpose. In a speech on Wednesday night in the seventh anniversary of a television show for overseas Filipino workers in Pasay City, Duterte said

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