Statement of the President: On economic growth in the 1st quarter of 2007 I am pleased to announce that the…
The government said today that the Philippine economy grew by an impressive 6.9 percent in the first quarter of 2007, surpassing the forecast of between 5.3 and 6.1 percent. The services sector proved crucial for this growth, growing at 9.1 percent. “The Philippines is on a roll,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said this morning in Australia.
MANILA — The government is ready to implement its old but effective measures to avert the domino impact on the…
MANILA — Mitigating measures to help exporters and families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) cope with the adverse effects of…
MANILA — Malacanang has ordered the Department of Health (DoH) to look into allegations that the governments Philippine Health Insurance…
By Rose Palacio City Health Officer Dr. Josephine Villafuerte said the city government, as instructed by Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte,…
By Rose Palacio President Arroyo ordered government agencies to pool and intensify their efforts and seek the cooperation of the…
According to Kabataan partylist, CHED granted the tuition increase even before consultations in schools for such an increase has yet to be completed. It said the hike came after a meeting between President Arroyo and COCOPEA, the organization of private schools. The CHED’s “unilateral and shameless act shows the commission’s subservience and capitulation to strong pressure from school owners even at the expense of students.”
We all know that smoking kills… The solution is simple: 100% smoke-free environments. What isn’t so simple is overcoming tobacco industry untruths about smoke-free policies.”
A Moro child in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in one of the schools being supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency recently conducted a one-week training class for ustadzes (Islamic teachers) to integrate English, science, and math into the basic Islamic and Arabic teaching in madrasahs. At a ceremony to mark the training, ARMM Department of Education Undersecretary Manaros Boransing said that implementing the Revised Basic Education Curriculum is important to develop future Moro leaders who are deeply rooted in their Islamic faith while being fully attune to developments in the Philippines and the global community. (US Embassy photo)
