The Commission on Election's (Comelec) temporary suspension on its partnership with news website Rappler is an "attack on press freedom" a group said Saturday, March 12. On March 8, the poll body halted its partnership with Rappler, a day after the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) filed a...
A women-led enterprise assisted by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through its Provincial Science and Technology Center (PSTC) in Misamis Oriental now helps housewives to earn extra income. Workers clean the pouches before putting the products in the Fully Automatic Double Layer...
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOST-PCHRD) has allotted a P3.2 million fund to iSULAT (intelligent stroke utilization, learning, assessment, and testing) project to address handwriting problems. In a taped report, DOST Secretary...
Funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), the De La Salle University (DLSU) has created a mobile electronic dictionary (e-dictionary) to help save the country's dying languages. (Photo from DOST) According to DOST, there are 187 Philippine languages, but only 183 are living, while...
Over 300 educators and staff from San Beda University (SBU) aired support for presidential candidate Vice President Leni Robredo and her running mate, Senator Kiko Pangilinan. Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Kiko Pangilinan (Photo from Vice President Leni Robredo's Facebook page) The...
CEBU CITY— The Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI) with its newly-elected president Charles Kenneth Co hopes for a more competitive Cebu and is very optimistic that the business community here can recover well from all the challenges and adversities that negatively affected the economic...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has dismissed a petition seeking to disqualify the candidacy of Antonio Agapito “AA” Legarda Jr., brother of senatorial aspirant Loren Legarda. (Photo from AA Legarda Facebook page / MANILA BULLETIN) The petition, filed by a certain Salvador Ungsod, sought...
Commission on Elections (Comelec) spokesman James Jimenez assured on Friday, March 11 that in the execution of its contract, F2 logistics, a firm said to be controlled by Duterte campaign donor and Davao-based businessman Dennis Uy, will not be without oversight. Comelec/MANILA BULLETIN file photo...
The Social Security System (SSS) has extended operating hours of its branches in Metro Manila to improve frontline services following the influx of transactions. In a statement, newly-installed SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Michael G. Regino said on Friday, March 11, that he ordered...
FDA The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Pfizer's Covid-19 treatment drug Paxlovid. "Masaya kong ibinabalita sa inyo na naaprubahan na po namin ang Paxlovid kahapon (I'm glad to announce that we already approved Paxlovid yesterday)," said FDA...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the initial public offering (IPO) of stock brokerage firm CTS Global Equity Group, Inc. worth up to P1.38 billion. The Commission En Banc resolved to render effective the registration statement of CTS Global covering 6.88 billion common...
What’s my favorite food? Depends on my mood or what’s calling me at the moment Whenever I’m asked what my favorite food is, my immediate response would be, “depends on my mood or what’s calling me at the moment.” This week was a mix of many. My Foodprints/Casa Daza team and I went to...
