Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Your health needs change from year to year. And, your health plan may change the benefits and costs each year too. That’s why it’s important to…
Globe partners with PUSOD on Taal Lake protection and conservation
(By prworks.wordpress.com) From the mountains of the Cordilleras, Globe Telecom moves to expand its environment protection campaign to include Taal Lake, the country’s third largest lake which supplies up to 40% of…
Philippine Software Development Industry regains positive growth in 2010
Despite the global economic crunch in 2008, the local software development industry was able to post a 27.60% growth rate in both export revenue and employment by the end of 2010, as…
E- Governance for Taal Volcano Protected Landscape
Governance in the information age is changing more quickly than we realize. In Batangas, a maelstorm over a proposed sign on Taal Volcano has not only shown what many people think, it…
CENRO SAN JUAN conducts Ermitanyo creek clean-up and Anti-smoking campaign
San Juan City, MMDA, PA conduct Ermitanyo creek clean-up, Anti-smoking campaign intensified The MMDA, the San Juan city government, Philippine Army and the Department of Health recently simultaneously conducted a massive clean-up…
Affected workers say no to hefty PAL separation package
By Florence F. Hibionada/ PNS Thanks but no thanks. Such summed up the latest sentiments of Philippine Airlines (PAL) ground personnel who were offered a hefty separation package by the management. With…
Iloilo Parish hosts 1st ever RP ‘Vatican Exhibit of World’s Eucharistic
By Florence F. Hibionada ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES – The Parish of Immaculate Conception in Tanza, Molo, Iloilo City has been chosen as host and venue of the country’s first-ever “Vatican Exhibit of…
Globe Adventure Taal, November 26, 2011
The continuing rains may be dumping more nutrients into Taal Lake, bringing wastes and threatening its water quality. Scientists are warning that the lake is now generally eutrophic, a change from its…
iSchools advocates Open Source amid Pressures, DepEd’s Microsoft involvemen
by: Angelo Kairos Torres Dela Cruz The iSchools Project — the country’s most comprehensive government funded ICT-in-education program – affirms its ever growing support and advocacy for open source software despite external…
Townmates abroad watching over hometowns, local governments want to be invo
MANILA — ON the second decade of a landmark Philippine law granting local autonomy to cities, provinces and municipalities, constituents who became overseas Filipinos are watching over how their places of birth…
Local governments getting involved in serving overseas Filipinos
MANILA—THE PUBLIC’s accustomed to seeing acronyms such as POEA, OWWA, DOLE, and DFA in news items whenever there are issues facing overseas Filipinos. But slowly emerging is an acronym that is becoming…
Ultimate 2-day ‘Food Trip’ in Iloilo City
By Florence F. Hibionada/ [PNS Consider this – 5 restaurants each with a wide array of food choices – buffet style. No reservations needed and most important of all – you get…
ANX Home Healthcare Sponsors Seton Foundation’s 2011 Charity Golf Classic
ANX Home Healthcare Sponsors Seton Medical Foundation’s 2011 Charity Golf Classic SAN FRANCISCO, CA, October 5, 2011 – ANX Home Healthcare (www.anxlife.com), a premier healthcare service provider for home-bound patients in the…
Nature, green and technology
Arch. Celso C. Nieves, FUAP, CAAIF There are many definitions of Green. Green is color, abundance, amateur, novice, raw, and many more. There is a new definition of Green which was created…
Lessons from the ‘anti-planking’ issue
Lessons drawn from the ‘anti-planking’ issue 1. It can take a genius, a magician even, to create it as top trending topic, here in Philippines and beyond. 2. That 15-minute of fame…