PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo abolished yesterday the office that manages all government-owned broadcast stations and its official news agency. The President signed Executive Order 576 abolishing the Government…
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Atong Ang to arrive in RP Friday
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — AUTHORITIES’ eyes will be at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport tomorrow morning as controversial trader Charlie “Atong” Ang arrives at 5:30 at the NAIA Centennial Terminal via Philippine…
Iglesia loses land case in SC
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Supreme Court has junked the suit filed by the Iglesia ni Cristo, assailing an order of a Quezon City Regional Trial Court over a land dispute between…
Cruz quits amid calls to resign
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — AMID fresh reports that the majority of the Armed Forces officers corps wants Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz, Jr. removed for allegedly delaying the AFP modernization program, the beleaguered…
BSP won’t accept won, yuan
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — South Korea and China have asked the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas to make their currencies convertible in the Philippines, citing increasing trade with the Philippines, a senior official…
RP’s Silicon Valley soon to rise in QC
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE country’s version of the famous Silicon Valley in California, USA will soon be replicated in Quezon City. This, after the contract for the development of a new…
World pool under way in RP
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — IN his two previous trips in the country, Mika Immonen has broken the hearts of Filipinos by twice beating pool icon Efren ‘Bata’ Reyes in two separate international…
Solons hit FVR over Cha-Cha claim
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — CHARTER change supporters in Congress yesterday shunned former President Fidel Ramos’ statement that Charter change is finished and it was time for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to move on….
Erap not afraid of Atong Ang
PHILIPPINES NEWS SERVICE — FORMER President Joseph Estrada has said he is neither threatened nor disturbed by the impending extradition of his erstwhile trusted friend Charlie “Atong” Ang, his co-accused in the…
Opposition wooing SC chief
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE opposition is wooing Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban to run for the Senate next year after the Supreme Court threw out a people’s initiative to shift to a…
RP to send nurses to China
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE government will send 1,000 student-nurses to China to share their knowledge and expertise in hospital work with their Chinese counterparts, the Commission on Higher Education said yesterday….
RP to build fuel plants with China
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — The Philippines will produce almost half a million liters of ethanol daily as an alternative to fuel oil under three agreements it will sign with state-owned China Machineries…
P49.76 to a dollar
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE peso climbed to a four-year high against the dollar yesterday, moving some companies to prepay some of their dollar loans to take advantage of its strength, an…
Gov’t workers swarm VP Noli’s housing fair
OVP/ PNS — MORE than 1,000 government employees trooped to Glorietta in Makati yesterday to participate in the country’s biggest housing fair organized by the Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC)….
Misedukasyon
Napakadamin sa ating bansa na patunggkol sa misedukasyon. Sa aking panunood sa isang film na ginawa ng ibon foundation, isa-isang tinalakay ang mga problemang ito. Ilan sa mga problemang ito ay ang…