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PhilHealth assures benefits to continue even without 2025 subsidy

The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) on Monday committed to continue providing health benefits for Filipinos nationwide, assuring the public that it has enough funds to do so.

Prices will be reflected in the October bills of end users.

In an interview, DA Assistant Secretary Arnel De Mesa said importers may surpass last year’s volume to supplement the country’s strong harvest in terms of maintaining a stable rice supply in the country.

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PhilHealth made the pronouncement after the bicameral conference committee decided to completely cut its P74.431 billion subsidy for 2025 down to zero.

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The low-pressure area (LPA) inside the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR) was forecast to develop into a tropical cyclone in 24 hours.

In a weathercast early Tuesday morning, Rhea Torres of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) said the LPA was “upgraded to high” as of 2 a.m., Dec. 17, “which means that in the next 24 hours, this LPA we are monitoring may become a tropical cyclone.”

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At last, Mary Jane Veloso is returning to the Philippines after 14 years behind bars in Indonesia, nine of which she spent on death row for a drug trafficking conviction, an Indonesian official and Malacañang announced on Monday.

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“The day of her homecoming was not [on] the horizon before, but now we see it breaking at dawn,” the National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (NUPL) said, after Indonesia’s deputy coordinator of immigration and corrections, Nyoman Gede Surya Mataram, confirmed the Filipino domestic helper’s imminent repatriation.

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