News: DOT Chief keeping 'Love' alive amid promo mess

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DOT Chief keeping 'Love' alive amid promo mess

July 6, 2023

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DOT chief keeping 'Love' campaign despite mess

The Department of Tourism (DOT) is not ditching its "Love the Philippines" campaign which got off to a rocky start when the advertising agency behind the P49-million project was abruptly fired after it admitted to using stock footage of other countries for the promotional video.

By Tina G. Santos and Melvin Gascon

For safer alternative health-care services

The Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care pushed for the regulation of its sector that includes acupuncturists, chiropractors, Chinese medicine and naturopathy experts and the like. An ongoing profiling showed that just around 1 percent out of nearly 100,000 practitioners were registered. The call was made to protect the public against unscrupulous individuals and ex- orbitant fees.

By Dona Z. Pazzibugan

CONSTABLE'S CAMERA WON'T LIE Traffic constables of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) put on their newly issued body cameras at a press briefing on Wednesday. These recorders can work two ways: monitor the conduct of the motorist being flagged down, and make the enforcers think twice about accepting bribes. —GRIG C. MONTEGRANDE

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5.4% inflation rate lowest in 13 months

The inflation rate cooled to a 13-month low in June, easing to 5.4 percent and surprising most economists. Analysts on Wednesday said the rise in the prices of basic commodities was still fast, but they agreed that it should slow down as early as September.

By Ronnel W. Domingo

OPINION

PhilHealth transfer not enough

It was PhilHealth itself that broached the idea of moving from the DOH to the OP for reasons still unknown. And this refusal to come out in the open about the very reasons behind a move is symptomatic of the lack of transparency that PhilHealth had long been pilloried for.

By Editorial

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