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Ang Thong Hospital issued a public clarification after doctors were criticised for smiling and laughing during a press conference about the death of an infant and a gathering held inside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Hospital executives, led by director Parichat Sirawat, held the press conference on July 21 after the parents of a …

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Cebu risks losing ground to its Southeast Asian competitors unless government and business leaders adopt a unified, ecosystem-based strategy for investment and trade, according to the Philippine chair of the East Asia Business Council (EABC).

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr’s push for nuclear energy in his  State of the Nation Address should no longer involve the four-decade old Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong town, which Bataan Vice Gov. Maria Cristina Garcia describes as an outmoded automobile that should be junked. “We have been struggling

MANILA, Philippines — A House bill, filed on Tuesday by Speaker Faustino Dy III and Majority Leader Sandro Marcos, would allow more Filipino workers to keep a larger portion of their earnings by raising the annual tax-free income ceiling from P250,000 to P350,000. The two House leaders filed House Bill No. 10345 in response to

MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has confiscated almost P13 million worth of fake skincare and cosmetic products carrying the brands of four well-known companies, which were being sold in the stores of Binondo and Divisoria in the City of Manila.  In an interview with reporters on Wednesday, NBI spokesperson Palmer Mallari

CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro — Government troops are engaged in an ongoing firefight with suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Naujan town, Oriental Mindoro, on Wednesday (July 29), according to the Philippine Army’s 76th Infantry (Victrix) Battalion. In an initial report that was posted mid afternoon on social media, the battalion said

PAGADIAN CITY, Zamboanga del Sur – Joint operatives arrested a newly-identified high-value individual (NHVI) and seized approximately 250 grams of suspected shabu worth P1.7 million during a buy-bust operation in Barangay Malagutay, Zamboanga City, officials confirmed Wednesday. Maj. Shellamie Chang, Police Regional Office-9 (PRO 9) information officer, said the joint anti-illegal drug operation was conducted

A patient with private health insurance in Thailand is admitted to a hospital in Bangkok, and the hospital still asks for a deposit before it will begin treatment. That isn’t a clerical error or a rare exception. It’s how the system is designed to work, and most expats only discover it once they’re standing at …

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Police arrested a Chinese man for stealing customers’ credit card information and using it to make purchases, causing losses of more than 29 million baht. Officers from the Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) raided three businesses in Chiang Mai and on Yaowarat Road in Bangkok after receiving complaints from Chinese nationals about suspected credit card …

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Thai authorities are working through tens of thousands of companies suspected of holding land for foreign buyers. The assumption underneath the whole exercise is that foreigners who wanted a house here had no lawful route to one.  That assumption is wrong. A narrow legal route has existed since 1979, written into a statute almost nobody …

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