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Mike Smith of Zero Co recently mobilised a team of more than 250 environmental rangers and volunteers to clean up a portion of the Taguig-Pateros River located south of Metro Manila, dredging up 147,000kg of garbage from the waters, mostly plastic.
Dr Albert Domingo, an official in the Philippines’ Department of Health, told This Week in Asia that 862 cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, had been recorded in the first three months of this year.
On Good Friday in Quezon City, hundreds could be seen flocking to the ‘Little Gaza’ neighbourhood to savour a range of dishes prepared by a group of Filipinos.
Filipinos expressed their anger online as the hashtag #JusticeforKillua dominated social media platforms such as Facebook and X – the latter of which saw nearly 70,000 tweets, with major celebrities chiming in.
Jaemark Tordecilla, a former editor-in-chief of GMA News Online and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, recently created an AI programme, built atop OpenAI’s ChatGPT, that has been configured specifically to summarise the audit reports of Philippine government agencies for journalists.
Senator Robin Padilla told local media on March 14 that he was getting “impatient” with the bill, which he filed two years ago and was languishing in the Senate.
Dozens of protesters in Manila marched on March 15 at the grounds of the Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST) over the video showing the tearful transgender student having her hair snipped off by a schoolmate. The video was shared on Facebook by the national LGBTQ alliance Bahaghari.
The Bureau of Immigration revealed in early March that immigration officers had intercepted a 20-year-old Filipino woman and a 34-year-old Chinese man who were attempting to travel to Shenzhen on February 28 as a married couple.