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Agricultural Education

The Senate proposed a bill that aims to promote agricultural education and to promote “agri-preneurship”. Senate Bill 2384 or Entrepreneurial Agricultural Education Act proposed by Senator Sonny Angara aims to create training programs for agricultural entrepreneurship, especially in rural areas. The Senator also wants the establishment of Agricultural Manpower Education and Entrepreneurship System or AMEES and to also establish AMEES Development School or Farm Business School in all regions including the NCR. Under AMEES, educational […]

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Price of petroleum products

Oil company Flying V, implements a price rollback of 20 centavos per liter of diesel and kerosene. While the price of their gasoline increased by 20 centavos per liter. Said price change was implemented last midnight.

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INC LINGAP – HOUSTON FILIPINO COMMUNITY EVENT

The city of Houston held its first largest Filipino celebration – “Fiesta Mo sa Texas” to promote Filipino arts and culture. Members of the Church of Christ (Iglesia ni Cristo) participated in the event by volunteering their time to set up booths providing free health checks and medical services. Texas correspondent Abigal Bonifacio reports.

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About 60,000 Syrian Kurds flee to Turkey from Islamic State advance

(Reuters) – About 60,000 Syrian Kurds fled into Turkey in the space of 24 hours, a deputy prime minister said on Saturday, as Islamic State militants seized dozens of villages close to the border. Turkey opened a stretch of the frontier on Friday after Kurdish civilians fled their homes, fearing an imminent attack on the border town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani. A Kurdish commander on the ground said Islamic State had advanced to […]

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Storm “Mario” moves closer to Taiwan; storm signals now lowered

MANILA, Philippines (ENS) — Tropical Storm “MARIO” has maintained its strength as it continues to move closer to Southern Taiwan, according to the country’s weather bureau, PAGASA. Most of the storm warning signals in the country were lowered as of 4 a.m., Sunday morning as “Mario” was located at 155 kilometers northwest of Itbayat, Batanes.   It is forecast to move north northeast at 17 kilometers per hour. Only the Batanes group of islands is placed under […]

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Philippines, Germany agree to address worsening effects of climate change

President Benigno S. Aquino III underscored the need for cooperation between developed and developing countries to combat the destructive effects of climate change, citing the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. During a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel following their meeting, President Aquino emphasized the shared determination of both nations to address the adverse impacts of climate change. “This commitment to upholding the welfare of peoples is also reflected in our shared determination […]

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Goodell tackles NFL domestic abuse crisis with vow to reform

(Reuters) – A chastened NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Friday that the league’s poor response to its domestic violence crisis will prompt an overhaul of how it deals with player behavior and punishment in America’s most popular sports league. Goodell has been under fire since the NFL’s slow and fumbled response to the domestic violence incident involving Baltimore Ravens star Ray Rice, whose knock-out punch to his then-fiancee was captured in a video that […]

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More than 700,000 affected by storm “Mario”; no “significant damage” reported

MANILA, Philippines (ENS) — More than 710,000 people were affected by tropical storm “Mario” which is expected to leave the Philippine Area of Responsibility on Sunday afternoon. Floods have also generally subsided in Metro Manila and Luzon, and only pockets of floodwater have remained, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said on Saturday, Sept. 20. NDRMMC executive director Alexander Pama said that 710,120 persons or 153,976 families were affected in the Ilocos […]

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RESPONDE

Follow @RespondeNet25 “Tugon. Aksyon. Ngayon.” These three words serve not only as a tagline; it is the solemn promise of Net 25’s new public service program, RESPONDE. And these three now familiar words that have served as the tagline of this program have also become a byline in public service. RESPONDE may not be the first of its kind in the local broadcasting industry and there exists many public service oriented shows in Philippine Television […]

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French jets strike in Iraq, expanding U.S.-led campaign vs Islamic State

(Reuters) – French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target inIraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighboring Syria. President Francois Hollande said Rafale jets hit “a logistics depot of the terrorists” near the city of Mosul, which has been held by Islamic State for more than three months. It promised more operations in coming days. […]

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