The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW) lauded proposed legislative measures protecting women's and children's rights in both Houses of Congress, especially on raising the age of sexual consent in rape cases and prohibiting child, early, and forced marriages. (Unsplash) On Sept. 21, the Senate...
Golden Haven Memorial Parks, the country’s first integrated deathcare services firm, said its sustainability measures have reduced carbon emissions of their memorial parks projects in the country. Golden Haven has turned their vast and expansive memorial parks into stunning models of...
To protect women's health amid the pandemic, government agencies and private firms have been utilizing digital avenues to provide more women access to reproductive health products and services. (Photo from Unsplash) According to the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM), family planning...
The Philippine Commission on Women (PCW), the project holder of Supporting Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) Project signed Memoranda of Agreement (MOA) with four private organizations that will complement government efforts in making the business environment responsive to women...
PRC/MB The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said on Friday, Sept. 24, that 1,084 examinees passed the Physician Licensure Examination (PLE) this month. The PRC said that a total of 1,546 took the PLE. The examinations were held in Baguio, Cagayan De Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi,...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the P6 billion market debut of AllDay Marts, Inc. and the P18- billion bond offering of Petron Corporation. 34600 In its meeting last September 23, the Commission En Banc resolved to render effective the registration statements of AllDay...
The health maintenance organizations’ (HMO) net income nearly doubled in the first three months of the year owing to lower benefit and claim payments, the Insurance Commission (IC) said. Based on the preliminary financial statements submitted to the IC, HMOs reported that the industry’s...
The new passers of the Sanitary Engineers Licensure Examination will have their online oathtaking on Oct. 7, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said Thursday. PRC/MB The online oathtaking at 1 p.m. will be spearheaded by PRC Tacloban through Microsoft Teams. PRC said inductees shall wear...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) said the “root cause” of its billions of unobligated funds last year was the COVID-19 pandemic, following the request of the private sector for the Agriculture Secretary William Dar to explain the findings of Commission on Audit (COA) on the agency’s...
At least eight power generation companies (GenCos) have been formally tagged by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) for penalties for breaching allowable forced outages in their electric generating facilities, that in turn triggered rotational blackouts and rate spikes last summer. ERC Logo In...
President Duterte asked Commission on Audit (COA) Chairman Michael Aguinaldo if he had ever taken any measures at all to hold Senator Richard Gordon accountable for his disallowances amounting to at least P86 million. Commission on Audit (COA) Chairman Michael Aguinaldo and President Duterte (File...
Retired Philippine Army Major Gen. Mario Fontanilla Chan is the new Philippine ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil. Retired Army Major Gen. Mario Chan (right) takes his oath as the new Philippine ambassador-designate to Brazil before Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Civilian Security...
