The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is not yet finished drafting the Coconut Farmers and Industry Development Plan (CFIDP), which will serve as the government's ultimate guide in the distribution of the P100-billion coco levy fund and assets. In the meantime, the agency launched the Coconut...
Senator Sonny Angara is seeking passage of a bill that would provide free annual medical check-up for all Filipinos, which is a vital preventive health care service that can help stop any potential critical ailments at an early stage. As one of the authors of Republic Act 11223 or the Universal...
Filipino inventor Ismael Aviso unveiled a tantalizing "free energy" breakthrough over 10 years ago--the kind that would make oil company owners shake in their shoes should it be developed further. It went nowhere. Ismael Aviso (Screengrab from Aviso's YouTube video) Aviso's free energy technology...
The implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of some sections of the Republic Act (RA) No. 11524 or an Act Creating the Coconut Farmers and Industry Trust Fund (CFITF) are now in effect. But farmers are claiming that no consultation was done so they can raise their concerns about the contents of...
The Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources has moved to strengthen the Philippines' wildlife conservation and protection law to address the persisting problem in illegal wildlife trade and similar offenses. A Philippine pangolin captured in Balayan, Batangas is rescued by the...
The government agency tasked to ensure ease in doing business in the country failed to make it easy for Commission on Audit (COA) to conduct an audit examination of its financial transactions last year. COA, in its 2020 annual audit report for the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA), said the agency’s...
Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has vowed to support the United Nation’s program to promote human rights-based approach in combatting terrorism and illegal drugs in the country. The United Nation’s Joint Programme on Human Rights is the first ever...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said the government has set up a registry that will monitor the status of the assets acquired using the multibillion-peso coconut levy fund. In a statement, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said they have established the Coco Levy Asset Registry that will...
The Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) said it was targeting that all 1,600 local government units (LGUs) will have their electronic Business One-Stop Shop (e-BOSS) before President Duterte's term expires on June 30 next year. Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) Director-General Jeremiah Belgica (Photo from...
The education system is again forced to close face-to-face learning and continue with the Department of Education's (DepEd) blended learning program amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Children listen to their online class. The Philippines has been implementing blended learning program as schools remain...
Minister Hwang Hee of Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (left) and BTS (MCST / Big Hit Music) K-pop superstars BTS will be recommended if they file an application to postpone their military service until age 30. The so-called “BTS Military Service Act” took effect in South...
BTS (Big Hit Music) The new law that will allow K-pop superstars BTS and other pop culture artists to postpone their military service until age 30 took effect today, June 23. On Dec. 22, 2020, the Korean government promulgated the so-called “BTS Military Service Act” to give outstanding pop...
