Archbishop Charles J. Brown
Pope Francis has named U.S. Archbishop Charles J. Brown as the new nuncio to the Philippines, the Vatican announced Sept. 28. The New York native, who will turn 61 Oct. 13, has been the Vatican’s diplomatic representative in Albania since March 201 (See Cruxnow.com for story).
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday that Facebook <FB.O> could not stop him from promoting the objectives of his government, telling the social media giant that they should talk about its purpose in his country (See Yahoo/Reuters for story).
President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. The president in 2017 paid $145,400 in taxes in India and $156,824 in the Philippines, compared to just $750 in U.S. income taxes (See story in Associated Press).
An independent survey released Sunday said the proportion of families experiencing hunger due to lack of food to eat reached a new record-high of 30.7 percent, or an estimated 7.6 million households in the past 3 months (See ABS-CBN News for story).
The University of the Philippines, despite its meager resources, has outranked some of the world’s top universities — including Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard — in a global index in terms of its clinical, pre-clinical and health research citations. The piece of good news comes from Senator Pia S. Cayetano, who congratulated UP for the high scores it obtained in the latest World University Rankings (See BusinessMirror.com.ph sfor story).
Facebook has shut down over 100 fake accounts traced to police and military units in the Philippines for engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” (CIB), according to Nathaniel Gleicher, cybersecurity policy chief of the social media giant (See Inquirer.net for story).
Dr. Rhoel Dinglasan (Source: https://www.epi.ufl.edu/)
Dr. Rhoel Dinglasan and his team of researchers won a prestigious award from the technology competition sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a rapid, smartphone-based saliva test they developed which could diagnose COVID-19, along with other blood-borne diseases such as malaria and anemia, (See GoodNewsPilipinas.com for story).
Ermita police station commander Lt. Col. Ariel Caramoan was relieved from his post over his alleged failure to enforce physical distancing rules on visitors to the “white sand beach” in Manila Bay (See Inquirer.net for story).
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