Pandemic

Welcome to Farm-tok: Three Pinoy educational agri-TikTokers to binge watch At this point, there isn’t anybody who hasn’t heard of TikTok, the short form video social media platform whose popularity rose during the pandemic. Whether it be trendy dances, humorous clips or playful filters, almost everyone has probably watched at…

BAGUIO CITY: City administrator Bonifacio de la Peña lauded the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation Inc. (BFFFI) for the successful return of the Panagbenga Festival in February. The Panagbenga, also known as the Baguio Flower Festival, was held without restrictions for the first time since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.…

Health Minister Will Quince confirmed that the Department of Health spent £15,300 on 14 lavish wash and dry devices at the height of the first Covid lockdown, with Labour branding it 'one rule for them and another for everyone else' NHS staff resorted to wearing bin bags because they didn't…

He said he should not be the target of judicial reviews over his department’s failure to safeguard care home residents simply because he was Secretary of State – and that it should be the whole Government instead Mr Hancock complained that Ministers are the targets of judicial review (Image: Getty…

Hello, and welcome to this week’s selection of top stories in pictures. :: Weather and the talk of it were hard to miss as snow dominated SoCal headlines following intense winter storms that brought Los Angeles its longest cold snap in almost 20 years. The heavy snow buried California mountain…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world's rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with "predatory" interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Speaking in the Qatari capital, Doha, Guterres told leaders of more than 40 of the most deprived states that wealthy nations should provide $500…

Morsa Images | Digitalvision | Getty Images Workers and companies see benefits of remote workIn 2019, about 5% of full-time work was done from home. The share ballooned to more than 60% in April and May 2020, in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, said Nicholas Bloom, an economist…

The percentage of Americans who hold a biblical worldview fell to 4 percent during the pandemic, while the percentage of self-identified Christians and born-again Christians who hold such a worldview also plummeted, according to a new poll. The survey by researcher George Barna at the Cultural Research Center of Arizona Christian University…

2 minute read       Ritz-Carlton March, 2 2023   Olivier Lau - General Manager - Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner announced the recent appointment of Olivier Lau to the role of General Manager. With nearly two decades of hospitality experience, Olivier brings a plethora of knowledge to his new…

The White House on Thursday laid out its plan to target pandemic fraudsters and recapture stolen relief funds distributed under both the Trump and Biden administrations. A top White House official said the goal was to provide $600 million to investigate and prosecute systemic pandemic fraud, a similar amount to…