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TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is confident of attracting more tourists to Eastern Visayas through the launching of tour programs that will link islands in the Visayas. DOT-Eastern Visayas Regional Director Karina Rosa Tiopes said officials and tour operators from the three regions have been meeting to come up with a tourism program for the three regions as part of the ‘One Visayas’ initiative. ‘There have been exploratory meetings, and we have identified tour operators willing to do the costing as we come up with thematic tour programs for the three Visayas regions. This will be revealed

Manila: The country has logged 18 confirmed cases of mpox (formerly monkeypox) as of Aug. 18, Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa said on Monday. Herbosa said five of the cases have recovered. “This means na-release na sila sa isolation, eleven na lang po ang nasa home isolation, anim po sa Calabarzon, isa sa Cagayan Valley, ‘yung nalang po ang mga naka-confine (they have been released from isolation, eleven are in home isolation, six in Calabarzon, one in Cagayan Valley, these are the only ones confined),” he said in a press conference. All of the cases have no epidemiological link as they

KUALA LUMPUR, A strong earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck the Mariana Islands region at 7.36 pm today. The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) said in a statement that the epicentre of the earthquake was located at 17.1 degrees north and 147.2 degrees east at a depth of 112 kilometres (km), 2,156km southeast of Yokosuka, Japan. “The quake does not pose a tsunami threat to Malaysia,’ read the statement. Source: BERNAMA News Agency

KOTA KINABALU, The opposition’s rejection of the government-proposed memorandum of understanding (MoU) on opposition allocations does not mean that negotiations on the matter have ended, said Unity Government spokesman Fahmi Fadzil. Fahmi, who is also the Communications Minister, said the government remains open to collaboration or negotiations with the opposition. “Since the day he was sworn in, the Prime Minister has kept his doors wide open for collaboration or negotiations. “The government is ready if the opposition wishes to continue negotiations on the MoU, and Deputy Prime Minister II Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof has also said that we are awaiting

KUALA LUMPUR, The Secretariat of the Administrative and Diplomatic Officers’ Alumni Association (Alumni PTD) has debunked rumours circulating on social media about the death of former Chief Secretary to the Government (KSN), Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali. In a brief statement, the PTD Secretariat informed that they had received numerous inquiries regarding claims of Abdul Halim’s death, who is also PTD Alumni president, from yesterday. “The PTD Alumni would like to confirm that the news is fake,” the statement said. Several media portals had previously reported the passing of the former Chief Secretary to the Government, at age 81, this