BORONGAN CITY – Mayor Jose Ivan Dayan Agda here said that their hosting of the fourth leg of the NextGen Pilipinas Surfing National Tour helped raise the popularity of this city as a surfing site and gave pride to the people. AGDA (FB) "The impact of this surfing competition in Borongan is...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – A minority legislator here has said that budget deliberations at the city council should be scheduled to enable them to carefully examine the programs and projects of each department and determine if enough money has been earmarked for these. ABBU (FB) “If you see...
PEACE-MAKER Before the demise of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011, another Middle East strongman with whom we also had interesting encounters fell from power in December 2003: Saddam Hussein. As with Gaddafi, we first met him in the 1970s when we were a pioneering businessman in the...
The Maharlika Investment Corp. (MIC) plans to conduct international roadshows with the aim of attracting potential investors to invest their money in the Philippines' first sovereign wealth fund. Rafael Jose D. Consing, Jr., MIC president and chief executive officer, said newly-created fund would...
Leading VisMin developer Cebu Landmasters Inc. (CLI) of the Soberano family posted a 28 percent growth in consolidated net income for the first nine months of the year to P3 billion from the P2.4 billion recorded in the same period last year. In a media and analysts briefing, CLI said its...
The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has started realigning its housing programs to the global standard in the development of smart cities in the Philippines. DHSUD Secretary Jose Rizalino Acuzar explained that the development of smart cities, which is now being...
PEACE-MAKER Timor Leste President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jose Ramos-Horta arrived in Manila two days ago for a state visit. He met with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in Malacañang, where they discussed educational, technical, economic, and political cooperation between our two...
Coach Louie Gonzales’ absence was hardly felt as Jose Rizal University escaped a late-game scare from Letran, 79-74, to return in the winning track in the NCAA Season 99 men’s basketball at the at FilOil EcoOil Centre in San Juan City on Saturday, Nov. 11. Agem Miranda shines for the JRU Heavy...
The Philippines and Timor-Leste have agreed to prioritize their cooperation on higher education, health and social security, among others, as their leaders commit to improve the lives of their peoples. This came as Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta came to the Philippines for a state...
Timor-Leste is seeing the Philippines in a "brotherly" figure as the new independent Southeast Asian country is charting its own roadmap for excellence. Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta said his country is being "guided" by the Philippines in terms of which path to follow because of the...
President Marcos described his bilateral meeting with Timor Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta as a "productive" one as he thanked the latter for supporting the Philippines in the South China Sea issue and expressed a desire to enhance the cooperation between both countries in various areas. PH-TIMOR...
Timor Leste President José Ramos-Horta thanked the Philippines for its support to his country's goal to be a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. and Timor Leste President José Ramos-Horta hold a bilateral meeting in...
