Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno met with Australian Ambassador to the Philippines HK Yu and Australia’s Special Envoy for Southeast Asia Nicholas Moore to explore deepening Philippine-Australian cooperation on areas such as privatization of airports, development of the mining industry, and...
A total of 500 beneficiaries of the iSTAR Program, the upgraded version of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority's (TESDA) Sari-Sari Store Training and Access Resources (STAR) Program has graduated, the agency announced. In partnership with Coca-Cola Philippines, TESDA conducted...
Delegates from the Sri Lanka Ministry of Health and Asian Development Bank paid a courtesy visit to Para ñaque Mayor Eric Olivarez and 1 st District Rep. Edwin Olivarez on March 23. The delegates were accompanied by Para ñaque City Health Office (CHO) officer Dr. Olga Virtusio and Dr....
The United States will be supporting Filipino fisherfolk whose livelihood has been affected by an oil spill in Oriental Mindoro through training them to become citizen scientists in the meantime. The US Embassy in Manila said Friday that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. expressed hope that Brunei and Malaysia will continue supporting Mindanao's development initiatives as he thanked the country’s two Southeast Asian neighbors for bringing stability to the island. Marcos said this as he welcomed the two countries'...
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said the aggressive monetary policy tightening by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) would drag down the country’s economic growth this year. During the Wallace Business Forum Roundtable on Wednesday, March 22, NEDA Arsenio M. Balisacan...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) warned the public against a fraud website that uses the agency’s name to offer college scholarships. “The Department of Social Welfare and Development wishes to inform the public that ‘DSWD Financial Assistance’ is not an official DSWD...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Rex Gatchalian met with New Zealand Ambassador to the Philippines Peter Kell to explore possible partnership opportunities to provide innovative ways to implement social welfare services and development interventions for the public....
Manila 3rd district Rep. Joel Chua is calling on the government to initiate what he called a private sector-led rehabilitation of the San Sebastian Minor Basilica, or San Sebastian Chuch, which he claims is "crumbling" before our eyes. Chua made this appeal in a privilege speech during plenary...
The headline is a question because it remains to be seen if our country is truly serious in becoming a tourism powerhouse. Words, plans, even a President’s directive are all “niceties,” but are we truly ready to match the tourism prowess of Bangkok, Bali, or Hong Kong? Are we putting money...
The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has released the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the amended Public Service Act (PSA) that allows full foreign ownership of some Philippine businesses. Upon its effectivity, the amendments to the PSA shall enable the liberalization...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL As talks swirl about a plan to merge our two state-owned lending institutions, the Land Bank and the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP), it may make sense to first appreciate that this is a “revival” of an old tune — one that’s brought...
