Bayan Muna Representative Neri Colmenares said power company Meralco “has raked in P17 billion in profits in 2013 and it should refund customers” and “double it for damages.”
Labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) accused owners of Kentex company for asking the survivors and families of the 72 victims who were killed in a factory fire early May “to sign waivers surrendering their right to file charges in exchange for a meager amount.”
The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is offering scholarships to qualified Junior Level College students to teach science and mathematics in secondary schools in the country.
Dabawenyos took part in a nationally-coordinated fun run to raise funds for helping young children.
The Government of the Philippines (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) negotiating panels signed an agreement Tuesday creating the Task Force for Decommissioned Combatants and their Communities.
President Benigno S. Aquino III and some cabinet secretaries will be spending P34.6 million of taxpayer’s money for their Tokyo visit early this week.
A non-government organization concerned with workplace safety said they are disappointed over the report of Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III regarding the Kentex slippers factory fire tragedy which claimed almost 80 lives.
Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the P3.2 million collected from violators of the Expanded Anti-Smoking Ordinance or Ordinance No 0367-12 here will be used to support the cancer patients.
A total of 12,750 sets of school packs, consisting of notebooks, papers and pens, were distributed by the City Government of Tagum to the scholars of the local government and children belonging to the indigenous peoples and Muslim communities on Friday.
A political prisoner who is also a mother of a seven-month old baby wished she would be freed during her birthday on Sunday.
