SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? Confident that the emergence of the East Asia Community is inevitable, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said on Sunday the region will be up to the task of leading a more dominant role in world economic and political affairs.
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SINGAPORE (via PLDT) ? Saying that the Philippines is firmly on a “path to permanent economic growth and stability,” President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo urged Saturday foreign investors to invest in her country and partake of its economic surge.
“I hope that the gentlemen and ladies around this table?. and for those of you who are the movers and shakers of the business community, please come and be a part of the profitable part of the Philippines economic surge,” the President said in her speech during the dinner with the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum (WEF) on East Asia 2007 at the Shangri-La Hotel here.
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Councilor Angela Librado-Trinidad delivered a privilege speech at the City Council this week denouncing the so-called "re-engineering" of the bureaucracy, which, she said, threatens the job security and welfare of government workers in the city.
DAVAO CITY??How could the management of Marsman not have known that their workers are being ferried from their farms and packing houses on work hours to attend ?meetings? where agents of the military are ?lecturing? them about wars and communism??
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DAVAO CITY — AT LEAST 130 stakeholders from the construction industry of Mindanao converged in Davao City recently to discuss issues concerning the government procurement policies and procedures.
The activity, which was spearheaded by the Southern Philippines Construction Core Group (SPCCG), was attended by those coming from government agencies involved in the implementation of procurement policies and procedures and private companies engaged in construction and selling of construction materials.
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