HEADS UP: How to Rescue-Buy From Farmers Who are Throwing Their Harvest Away (Sept. 29)
Here’s what you need to know today.
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Here’s a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Sept. 29:
NEWS YOU CAN USE
- Here’s how you can rescue-buy fruits and vegetables from highland farmers to stop them from throwing their produce in the trash.
- Do face shields expire? The DOH explains how the materials in the face coverings deteriorate over time.
- You can still pay using the P20 bills, the Bangko Sentral said as it quashed reports that it was being demonetized.
- A DOST study has shown that COVID symptoms ease faster when patients take virgin coconut oil or VCO.
- Here’s how you can move to flourishing from languishing with an “emotional vaccine”.
2022 ELECTIONS
- Will the Eraserheads reunite again? Ex-frontman Ely Buendia says “Pag Tumakbo si Leni”.
- Sen. Panfilo Lacson, who is running for president in 2022, said he was in talks with popular broadcaster Raffy Tulfo to join his senatorial ticket.
- The Liberal Party named five senatorial bets -- incumbents Kiko Pangilinan, Leila de Lima and Risa Hontiveros, ex-senator Bam Aquino and human rights lawyer Chel Diokno.
- The deadline for voter registration will likely be extended from Sept. 30, Comelec said.
- Labor leader Leody De Guzman said he would run for president to push for workers’ rights.
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PIXEL WORLD
- How big is TikTok’s one billion users? It’s nine times the Philippine population. Gen Z’s favorite platform said its exponential growth continues.
NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the expansion of COVID-19 immunizations to the general public by October.
- The 2020/21 Bar Exams were moved to early next year and the Supreme Court advised aspiring lawyers to treat the delay as an opportunity to prepare for their future careers,
- U.S. President Joe Biden got his COVID-19 booster shot to encourage more Americans to get vaccinated.
- Pfizer said it would trial an mRNA vaccine against the flu, seeking to replicate the success of its COVID jab that uses the same tech.
- Here’s a roundup of potential COVID treatments: what works, what might work and what doesn’t work.
- A milestone for Black women in the #MeToo movement as R.Kelly is convicted of sexual abuse that operated like a syndicate for decades.
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