The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has renewed its partnership with Samsung Electronics Corporation (SEPCO) to help the agency strengthen its training programs on electronics and information and communications technology (ICT). In a statement, TESDA said that this is...
HOTSPOT There’s a country whose economy grew by 60.2 percent, with Gross Domestic Product rising from $222.27 billion in 2012 to $356.7 billion in 2022 The businesses of this country experienced happy times from 2012 to 2019, with net incomes or profits growing by 72 percent from $35.8 billion to...
Even back when he was just starting to carve a name in show business, many were already predicting Joshua Garcia's success. True enough, after his stint as contestant on "Pinoy Big Brother," he was able to quickly snag projects left and right. Critics noted his acting prowess, giving him the tag...
Sarah Geronimo and John Lloyd Cruz will be returning to the big screen together. Sarah's talent management agency announced the said reunion project recently via social media, sharing photos of the two. View this post on Instagram A post shared by VIVA ARTISTS AGENCY (@vivaartistsagency) The caption...
LANDSCAPE Eminent Filipino historian, Dr. Floro Quibuyen, shared two ChatGPT stories about Marx and Batman. The first one was from a blogger who prompted, “write a story of Marx and Batman.” ChatGPT made Marx and Batman fight and the latter won. With titanic imagination, Dr. Quibuyen asked...
The Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA) announced on Monday, May 22 that it will not charge first-time jobseekers when acquiring National Certificates (NCs), Certification, Authentication and Verification (CAV), and Certificates of Competencies (CoCs). "First-time job seekers...
HOTSPOT We've been hearing a lot of warnings from friends who are into horoscopes to be careful during "mercury retrograde." It turns out, a more urgent problem is out there, oppressing us daily: Mercury rising. Yes, we've been experiencing (and enduring!) extraordinarily-high temperatures and heat...
Former Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar (Malacañang photo) Former Department of Agriculture (DA) secretary William Dar, the agriculture chief during the latter half of the previous Duterte administration, has "a lot of explaining to do" in connection with the onion price surge...
LANDSCAPE During a Mothers’ Day dinner, I told my son and daughter-in-law that their only child had asked me to write my memoirs. My son immediately accessed ChatGPT to ask for a Gemma Cruz memoir. At warp speed, ChatGPT presented a table of contents (with errors): I. Introduction – early life...
Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo, onions (Screenshot from Zoom, MANILA BULLETIN) Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo ended the House Committee on Agriculture and Food's three-month inquiry on the agricultural hoarding issue by attempting to put faces on the alleged cartel...
Graduating players Mars Alba and Jolina dela Cruz heaved a huge sigh of relief as they are set to leave De La Salle as UAAP volleyball champions again after five years. The newly crowned Finals Most Valuable Player and Best Setter Alba and 1st Best Outside Spiker dela Cruz, though, are unsure of...
Bureau of Fire Protection/MANILA BULLETIN One person died while four others were injured in a fire that gutted 400 houses on Oroquieta St., Barangay 310, Sta Cruz, Manila, on Sunday morning, May 14. The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) identified the injured victims as Danilo Roque, 29, who...
