The U.S Army is now offering a maximum enlistment bonus of $50,000 to highly skilled recruits who join for six years.
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TRANSPORT terminals in Metro Cebu are now being eyed as additional vaccination sites to ramp up vaccination efforts.This developed following a meeting organized by the Office of th...
THE Cebu Police Provincial Office (CPPO) has ordered an investigation into the allegation of a woman that her husband was punched by a high-ranking police official following a car...
CEBUANO big man William McAloney has chosen to become a restricted free agent after deciding not to renew his contract with the Blackwater Bossing.Even though Bossing head coach Ar...
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) announced that they have granted the Manny Villar-owned Advanced Media Broadcasting System, Inc. (AMBS) provisional authority (PA) to operate using Channel 16 Tuesday (Jan 25).
THE Visayan Electric Company still has to reenergize its 62,603 customers in its franchise area in Metro Cebu five days before January 31, 2022 -- the target date of its full power...
THE Philippine Cacao Industry Association (PCIA) celebrates its official registration with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) by holding a virtual General Membership and...
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Online articles and social media posts claim US government data reveals there are problematic batches of Covid-19 shots that are responsible for all deaths caused by the vaccines. But American health authorities have not identified issues with specific vaccine lots, independent health experts say the claim is meritless, and the data cited is not proof that a shot was responsible for a fatality."100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths were caused by just 5% of the batches produced according to official G
A collage of three images of roadblocks has been shared widely on Facebook in Ethiopia with claims that the pictures show recent demonstrations in the town of Kobo, 200 kilometres south of the Tigrayan capital Mekelle. However, the claim is false: while all the images depict scenes in Ethiopia, they are old and unrelated to the current conflict. The Facebook post, archived here, has been shared more than 950 times since it was published on January 17, 2022, on a page called “Wolkayt Tegedie Amha
Social media posts claim that a convoy heading to Canada's capital to protest Covid-19 vaccine mandates for truckers set a Guinness World Record for being the longest. This is false; the global authority on record-breaking said the honor is held by a parade that took place in Egypt in 2020, and specific conditions have to be met for an official record attempt to be registered by Guinness."The convoy in Canada has made the Guinness book of world records for the longest convoy," claims a January 2
Gabriela Women’s Party filed a resolution on Tuesday (Jan 25), urging a Congressional investigation on the alleged rape, illegal detention, and torture of a 15-year-old girl in Quezon province in the hands of Philippine security forces.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is arguably the most controversial presidential candidate running in the 2022 national elections. Let’s see what he has to say on certain key issues.
AT LEAST 11 men were arrested for allegedly participating in illegal cockfighting in Bantayan Island, northern Cebu.However, 16 others got lucky as they were able to outrun and elu...
An image of a line of helicopters on a street has circulated in social media posts alongside a claim it shows an entourage for the youngest son of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in the capital Colombo. But the image has been shared in a false context. Although Rajapaksa's youngest son has previously told local media he enjoys traveling by helicopter, the photo was actually taken in the US. As of January 27, 2022, there have been no official reports that he recently arrived in the ca
As the daughter of President Rodrigo Duterte, the political aspirations of Sara Duterte-Carpio are under constant and intense media scrutiny.
MORE than a month after Typhoon Odette devastated the Visayas region, the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (Rafi) has been working closely with the affected communities to alleviate t...
An image of a crashed bus being hauled out from under a bridge has been shared on Facebook in Ethiopia with claims that the accident happened recently in the country’s capital Addis Ababa, killing 39 people. This is false; while a crash did occur recently involving a bus, no fatalities were reported. Furthermore, this image is old; AFP Fact Check traced it back to reports of a 2019 accident in which two people died. The Facebook post, which we’ve archived here, has been shared more than 70 times
TRANSPORT terminals in Metro Cebu are now being eyed as additional vaccination sites to ramp up vaccination efforts.This developed following a meeting organized by the Office of th...
A senior firefighter was killed on duty while trying to put out a blaze in the municipality of Polangui in Albay province on Monday (Jan 24), leaving behind his pregnant wife and his children.
Seventeen journalists and bloggers from all over the world asked the same question to director Lee Jae Kyoo: “What makes this show different from other zombie titles?”Indeed, the z...
