Korean pop rock band DAY6’s Young K, 27, enlisted in the military on Oct. 12 and bid goodbye to fans. Young K will be serving as an active duty soldier under the KATUSA, or Korean Augmentation To the United States Army, becoming the first K-pop idol to be admitted to the soldier program. Young K...
The Sun Life Investment Management and Trust Corp. (SLIMTC) has appointed global financial giant Citi as its middle office service provider in the Philippines. In a statement, Mike Enriquez, SLIMTC president said the mandate made Citi the first bank in the country to onboard a middle office client,...
Volunteer nutrition workers who have rendered at least two years of service in barangays may apply for first level eligibility, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) said on Thursday, Oct. 7. Civil Service Commission (CSC/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The CSC said barangay nutrition scholars may apply...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has extended its work-from-home (WFH) arrangement after the government decided to continue the pilot implementation of the new Alert Levels System for coronavirus (COVID-19) response in the National Capital Region (NCR) until Oct. 15. Civil Service Commission...
The registered examinees of the cancelled March 15, 2020 Career Service Examination-Pen and Paper Test (CSE-PPT) in the National Capital Region (NCR) have until October 31 to file their Request for Refund Form (RRF), and that the payout will be conducted until Dec. 31 this year. Civil Service...
The Philippines’s food service sector is expected to shrink further this year to $7.4 billion following a 44 percent fall in 2020, on the weight of the spread of COVID-19’s Delta variant as well as the government’s abrupt implementation of different quarantine restrictions. This is according...
A group of education workers on Friday, Oct. 1, sought the intervention of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) amid the the “failure” of the Department of Education (DepEd) to release the guidelines for the grant of service credits for public school teachers’ overtime work in the last school...
The conduct of the Fire Officer Examination (FOE), Penology Officer Examination (POE), and Basic Competency on Local Treasury Examination (BCLTE) initially set on Oct. 10 has been deferred, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) announced on Friday, Oct. 1. (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) The CSC issued...
A group of teachers on Thursday, Sept. 30, lambasted the Department of Education (DepEd) over a memorandum released by the agency purportedly to compensate for the extra days and duties performed by teachers last school year under distance learning. (ALI VICOY / FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)...
The Philippines is seen importing more chicken meat until end this year despite declining demand, data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) showed. The latest forecast of USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) in Manila (Post) showed that the Philippines’ “chicken meat...
In recognition of the “invaluable work” of teachers especially during the pandemic, the Department of Education (DepEd) on Thursday, Sept. 30, announced that their allowable service credits last school year have been expanded. (Photo from DepEd) “DepEd acknowledges that many teachers have...
For more than six decades, one of the country’s leading pawnshops, Villarica has continuously served the Filipino public with a host of services that have evolved with the changing, and digital, times as well as the needs of the Filipinos. Boasting of having one of the highest, if not the highest...
