by anyajulia | Sep 14, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, National News
Three Filipino students go for the gold in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Drawing Competition which will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. This is in line with the Celebration of the 2009 ASEAN Day for Disaster Management and the International Day for Disaster Reduction.
The three winning entries came from Jamia Mei Tolentiono and Trisha Co Reyes, both Grade V pupils of St. Stephen High School and Jerrika Shi, a Grade VI – Student from St. Jude Catholic High School. All schools came from the National Capital Region.
This year’s theme of the contest is “SAVE HOSPITALS: HOSPITALS OF ASEAN SAFE FROM DISASTERS.” (DepEd)
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by anyajulia | Sep 10, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, National News
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is scheduled to meet Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) who is expected to brief her on the progress of the climate change negotiations for a new climate change protocol.
With only three months to go, world leaders from more than 180 nations will forge an agreement that will contain what may be mankind’s largest challenge in the 21st century–a new global treaty on climate change.
The United Nations climate-change conference is scheduled to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December. A potential successor to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012, it will attempt to hammer out a new international treaty to curb greenhouse-gas emissions,.
The Philippines had earlier submitted a position paper asking industrialized countries to cut their CO2 emissions by more than 30 percent to 40 percent from 2013 to 2017 and by more than 50 percent from 2018 to 2022, using the 1990 levels as jump off point.
The Kyoto protocol, which took effect on February 16, 2005, is an international agreement that sets a target reduction of GHG emissions for 37 industrialized countries and European communities from 2008 to 2012. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Sep 9, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines
Since August, of this year, mobile officers of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) were dispatched to Hongkong. This action is in line with providing access and information to Filipinos on the agency’s membership updates and renewal, claims and benefits, and premium remittance concerns.
The task of PhilHealth mobile officers is to attend OFWs gatherings or meetings and coordinate with Filipino organizations in Hongkong to facilitate information drives promoting the agency’s programs and services.
PhilHealth, complementing its extension services overseas, also signed and entered into a Collection and Remittance Agreement with Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) accrediting them as the official collecting partners for OFW premium contributions. (PhilHealth/PIA)
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by anyajulia | Aug 26, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines
Department of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Esteban B. Conjeos, Jr. praised the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh for their quick and effective action on behalf of the non-government organization (NGO) members and other Filipinos involved in the alleged mixed gathering in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
In its on-line news, the DFA said that the embassy in Riyadh reported that the Saudi Arabia Prosecutor’s Office has dropped the case against 18 Filipinos arrested for an alleged mixed gathering on August 14.
According to the report, Saudi prosecutors requested the Embassy officials to reiterate to Filipinos in Saudi Arabia that mixed gatherings are not allowed under Saudi laws during their discussions. They added that a repetition of the same incident in the future will be dealt with strictly.
The DFA said that Saudi laws forbid the gathering of men and women in private and public places, unless they are married couples or with their families and in alleged immorality cases, only the Saudi Prosecutor’s Office can order a release after the conduct of police investigation. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Aug 25, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines
The Japanese Grant Aid for Human Resource Development Scholarship (JDS) for government workers is now accepting applicants. This is for a Masters degree scholarship at Japanese higher education institutions (HEIs) for Japanese Academic Year 2010-2011.
Its objective is to support the human resource development policies of the government of the Philippines, and eventually to extend and strengthen the bilateral relations between Japan and the Philippines.
The courses offered under the program are Public Administration, Economics, Business Administration, Information and Communication Technology and Industrial Development. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Aug 24, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, National News
SA LABING unang higayon, mo-export ang Pilipinas ug 50 mil ngadto sa 150 mil toneladas nga yellow corn nagdto sa Vietnam.
Matud ni Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap, ang commercial nga pag-export sa mais masugdan samtang gihipno na sa kagamhanan ang pagsabutay sa Vietnam.
Kini nga balita usab gikalipay sa mga mag-uuma nga medyo gitugkag kabalaka sa dagwayg sobra nga produksyon sa mais ning panahona.
Padayon pa ang Isabela, Pangasinan, Mindoro, Bukidnon ug ubang lalawigan sa maidason sa produksyon samtang giplastada na sa kagamhanan ang palit gikan sa mag-uuma.
Gikan sa tag 6.50 matag kilo, paliton na sa kagamhanan ang mais sa tag P10 ang kilo, matud sa Departamento sa Agrikultura. (PIA)
