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Jan 21, 2025 | verafiles.org | Blanch Marie Ancla

Social media posts bearing false information on China’s public health circulated early January, following reports there of a surge in respiratory infections caused by the virus called the human metapneumovirus (HMPV). Dr. Margaret Harris, spokesperson of the World Health Organization (WHO), clarified that HMPV is not a cause for alarm as it is expected that countries in the northern hemisphere experience a month-on-month increase in acute respiratory infections during winter.

Oct 24, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval |Rhenzel Raymond Caling

Isa ang Panay-Guimaras-Negros Islands interlink Bridge sa tatlong malalaking proyekto na sakop ng kasunduan na pinirmahan ng Pilipinas at South Korea noong Oct. 7. Matagal nang pangarap ng mga taga-Western Visayas na magkaroon ng tulay para sa mas mabilis na byahe at mas maunlad na ekonomiya sa rehiyon. Pero sa ilalim ng “one-of-its-kind” bridge project na ito, nanganganib na maubos ang critically endangered na Irrawaddy dolphins. Paano mababalanse ang pangangailangan sa kaunlaran at kapaligiran?

Oct 15, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval |Rhenzel Raymond Caling

Second of two partsThe pathway that will lead Western Visayas to greater economic heights. That’s how the government envisions the 32.47-kilometer Panay-Guimaras-Negros Island (PGN) Bridge project.

Oct 14, 2024 | verafiles.org | Rhenzel Raymond Caling |Rhoanne De Guzman |Valerie Joyce Nuval

First of two partsRex Magbanua was 7 years old when he first joined his father to fish in the waters of Bago City in Negros Occidental. Like most kids, he was amazed to see a handful of fishes caught using their long nylon ropes. Another scene he vividly remembers was the sight of dolphins swimming with them every time they went out to the sea. Those were different from the pictures of typical dolphins in grade school textbooks. What Rex saw had rounded foreheads and did not have snouts.

Jul 19, 2024 | verafiles.org | |Valerie Joyce Nuval

Proposals to amend certain “economic” provisions of the 1987 Constitution remain in limbo in the Senate despite President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s for the resolution on Charter change approved by the House in early February. Speaker Martin Romualdez said he and newly minted Senate President Francis “Chiz” Escudero have not discussed Resolutions of Both Houses (RBH) 6 and 7 before Congress adjourned its second regular session in May.