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The COVID-19 pandemic is no longer considered a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization, but the psychological impacts it had on us in those three long years cannot simply be erased overnight.The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard ...

One of the lasting, disorienting legacies of the pandemic is the warping effect it had on our perception time. Stuck inside, our lives on pause, days often blended together into one indistinguishable, monotonous mass.Nowhere is that phenomenon more apparent than when ...

On April 2, 2020, the Philippines imposed a nationwide rule compelling people to wear face masks indoors and outdoors. As COVID-19 cases continued to rise, the country took harrowing measures to keep people's faces covered with medical-grade face masks. ...

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. said Wednesday he was inclined to retain the state of public health emergency due to COVID-19 until the end of the year to ensure that the country would continue receiving international aid.The state of public ...

Hobbes & Landes, a toy and hobby shop popular for its selection of imported toys and board games, is closing its last company-owned physical store at Bonifacio High Street in Taguig.In a statement posted on its Facebook page, the company said ...

It's 2:30 a.m. as I reach for my alarm, half-awake after a 14-hour slumber. I was recovering from a summer trip during my off days in a little-known city in Austria called Klagenfurt, about to fly ...

It's not the first time doctors have prescribed hobbies and adventures as medicine for the soul. Doctors in the U.K. once prescribed gardening for patients struggling with anxiety and depression, and now, Belgian doctors are prescribing peaceful museum tours for ...

By now, most of us have reconciled with the fact that we won't be traveling anytime soon, at least not anywhere far. Out-of-town vacations? Yeah, let's move that next year, or the year after even. But by some ...

In case you were wondering, Boracay still looks beautiful. The sand is still white, the coconut trees still sway in the breeze, and the waves still gently lap the beach. But one of the country's top tourist destinations has been ravaged ...

A new survey of Filipinos' sentiments over a year into the coronavirus pandemic found that 63 percent of respondents say life has gotten worse. Twenty-nine percent said that nothing has changed in their households, while eight percent claim life has actually ...

People serious about "getting away from it all" are taking social distancing to the next level. In Japan, there's been a noticeable spike in people expressing interest in buying their own deserted island during the pandemic. According to a Nikkei Asia ...

The incidence of violence against children, mostly by parents and caregivers, dramatically increased globally during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a global research conducted by Save the Children, loss of income from lockdown measures have resulted to increased negative feelings and ...