Empowering local communities starts with appreciating and valuing their indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSP) to get them involved and to collaborate. Through the campaign “Kinaiya it Kailayahan: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices of Nabaoynons in Malay, Aklan in...
The “Surf2Sawa– Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) Wi-Fi project” or the “free Wi-Fi for all” has been launched in Quezon City, the Commission announced. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Feb 22, PCUP disclosed that the project was launched on Monday, Feb. 21 at Upper Lilac...
How can you save the future without facing your past? Present Adam and future Adam with their father. Directed by Stranger Things' Shawn Levy, this time-travelling action-adventure film “The Adam Project” stars Ryan Reynolds as a pilot who must travel to the past and team up with his younger...
The official pilot testing of the “Surf2Sawa Wi-Fi Project” or the “free Wi-Fi for all” initiative of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is set to be conducted on Feb. 21, 2022. (Unsplash) The “Suf2Sawa Wi-Fi Project” aims to provide an accessible internet connection...
In 2013, when Typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines, it made its first landfall in a small island called Sulu-an, a few kilometers off the coast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. While most people know of Yolanda’s destruction in Tacloban and other major cities in the Visayas, most Filipinos have not heard...
A total of 47 beneficiaries of “Dagdag Puhunan Livelihood Project” of the Pasay City government received cash and grocery items to help them start their chosen businesses. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said of the 47 beneficiaries from Districts 1 and 2, 34 chose to buy grocery items worth P3,000...
Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC) is raising P10 billion from the capital market, including a planned stock rights offering (SRO), to complete its development of 10 GW of solar projects. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said its Board of Directors has...
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez (left foreground) and JICA Chief Representative Azukizawa Eigo (right foreground), joined by (background from left) DOTr Undersecretary Timothy John Batan, Finance Undersecretary Mark Dennis Joven, and Ambassador of Japan to the Philippines KOSHIKAWA Kazuhiko at...
Centro Escolar Community Outreach Department initiated the Project C.O.P. ( C EU helps O dette victims and survivors in P alawan) a donation drive to extend help to the victims of the onslaught of the recent Typhoon Odette in Northern Palawan. Cash donations were accepted from December 20,...
The governments of the Philippines and Japan signed a P112.87 billion loan agreement, the second tranche funding for the construction of the Metro Manila Subway Project, the country's first-ever underground railway. Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, on behalf of the Philippine government, and...
Let the binging begin! As the pandemic stretches out, we continue to stay within the comfort and safety of our homes. What better way to reward yourself after a hard day’s work in front of the computer than to lay down on your couch and browse endlessly on Netflix? Kidding aside, here are some...
Last November 2021, at the 26 th United Nations Climate Change Conference, world leaders came together to discuss the future of the planet and the target to keep global temperature rise within 1.5 degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Today, the Earth is 1.2 degrees Celsius warmer than it was...
