The Philippine Star - August 04, 2020

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August 04, 2020

Hotels reject OFWs for quarantine stay

BACOLOD CITY – Some hotels and inns in this city are refusing to accommodate returning overseas Filipino workers for quarantine due to the failure of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to pay for the services extended to the OFWs.

1 min

SpaceX brings NASA astronauts home safe in milestone mission

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States’ first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.

1 min

White House experts: US infections ‘extraordinarily widespread'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections “extraordinarily widespread” in rural areas as well as cities, White House coronavirus experts said on Sunday.

1 min

How to thrive despite crisis

Avin Ong, the founder and CEO of Fredley Group of Companies, started out packing and assembling hangers to help his family make a living. He got himself into tutoring at the age of seven. He even dabbled in the F&B industry as early as high school, selling fruit shakes at the nearby wet market.

4 mins

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