The Department of Budget Management allocated 15 million pesos for the emergency repatriation of overseas Filipino workers in the Middle East.
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Filipina first to receive ASEAN Woman Leader Award
(Eagle News Service) — A Filipina brought honor to the country recently when she bagged the first ASEAN woman leader award in Myanmar, at the start of the ASEAN Summit. Ms. Sandra Sanchez-Montano from the Philippines is the first-ever ASEAN Woman Leader Awardee in the recent ASEAN Business Awards (ABA 2014) held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. Her award was presented during the GALA Dinner of the ASEAN BUSINESS & INVESTMENT SUMMIT (ABIS) and witnessed […]
President Aquino arrives at Myanmar
President Aquino arrived at Myanmar to attend the ASEAN summit, where other world leaders, most notably United States President Barack Obama, will also attend to discuss issues like the territorial dispute in West Philippine Sea, the Ebola virus and ISIS.
Binay’s camp denied Trillanes’ allegations of promised support
Senator Antonio Trillanes remarked that Vice President Binay’s withdrawal from their debate is a reminder of Binay’s lack of trustworthiness, saying that he did the same when Trillanes staged his coup attempt last 2007, wherein Binay promised support but did not made an appearance. Binay’s camp denied Trilanes’ allegations.
LPA has small chance of becoming a storm
PAGASA spotted a low-pressure area east of Surigao City but said that it has a low chance of becoming a storm.
Classy Federer on brink of semis, Murray stays afloat
(Reuters) – Roger Federer’s class shone like a beacon over the murky waters of round-robin tennis with a 6-3 6-2 defeat of Kei Nishikori at the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday before Andy Murray stayed afloat by defeating Milos Raonic. The 33-year-old Swiss maestro, bidding for a seventh title at the ATP’s year-ending shootout, oozed confidence as he racked up his second consecutive victory in Group B. However, Murray’s 6-3 7-5 defeat of big-serving […]
Japanese shares hit seven-year highs on tax-relief hopes
(Reuters) – Japanese stocks scaled seven-year highs on Wednesday on growing expectations Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will postpone a planned sales tax hike to avoid damaging a fragile recovery, and call a snap election to bolster his political standing. Equity markets in the rest of Asia moved little after a flat close in a holiday-thinned Wall Street session, with MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan off just 0.1 percent in early trade. Japan’s Nikkei […]
Randy Jackson exits ‘American Idol’ after 13 seasons
(Reuters) – “American Idol” judge and mentor Randy Jackson is leaving the Fox TV singing competition after 13 seasons, the network said on Tuesday, after the show suffered a decline in ratings in recent years. Music producer Jackson, 58, was one of the show’s original three judges along with Paula Abdul, who departed the show in 2009, and Simon Cowell, who left in 2010. Jackson left the judges’ panel after 12 seasons, but continued as […]
New York doctor now free of Ebola discharged from hospital
(Reuters) – A New York doctor who has recovered from Ebola left the hospital on Tuesday and urged support for U.S. health workers treating patients in West Africa so they do not face “stigma and threats” when they return home. The discharge of Dr. Craig Spencer, who worked with Ebola patients in Guinea and had been held in isolation at Bellevue Hospital Center since he was diagnosed with the virus on Oct. 23, means no one […]
Informing the Public about the ASEAN organization
Many people still lack awareness about the ASEAN organization itself and its purposes. In fact there has been a report that citizens of ASEAN member nations generally don’t know much about or are uninterested in the regional grouping even as the 2015 ASEAN integration nears. A study released by the ASEAN secretariat also found that three out of four people “lack a basic understanding” of what ASEAN is and what it is striving to do. […]
Addressing administrative corruption in preparation for the ASEAN Integration
In this episode of ASEAN in Focus, Director Liza Agamata, Director IV of the Civil Service Commission’s Public Assistance and Information office, tackles the issue of combating administrative corruption in preparation for the ASEAN integration. How ready are the Philippine civil servants for the ASEAN integration given this perceived corruption in some of their ranks? In this episode, Agamata talks about the role of the Civil Service Commission in addressing corruption in the government’s administrative […]
Educators increase access to schools; donate bikes to students living in far-flung areas in Cebu
CEBU CITY, Nov 12 — The Philippine Educators Association of CESOs and Eligibles, Inc. (PEACE) handed over 18 bicycles to students of Lusaran National High School in support of the Department of Education’s (DepEd) Pedals and Paddles Project, a campaign to bring boats and bikes to schoolchildren in far-flung areas aiming to boost access to education. DepEd statement released yesterday quoted Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro FSC as saying that the department remains committed to […]
