by aimee | Apr 2, 2014 | Headlines, National News
PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino III reiterated his obligation to defend the country’s sovereignty adding other countries should recognize the Philippines’s rights to defend its own interest in West Philippine Sea (South China Sea).
In an interview during the graduation rites at the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) in Silang, Cavite, the President said his government is not challenging China or initiating a provocation.
But he said he believes that China should recognize the country’s right to defend its sovereignty. He also said the country is pursuing a requirement on a peaceful and rules-based approach in resolving the dispute in the West Philippine Sea when it elevated its case to the international tribunal.
“We went through arbitration primarily because that is a means to resolve the dispute na consistent with the policy na peaceful, at saka in conformity with the international law,” he told reporters.
Another track being pursued by the country is the crafting of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea).
So far, ASEAN member countries only agreed in the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea in 2002, and the Philippines wants to push a Code of Conduct after ten years. The Philippines has no other choice but international arbitration, he said, arguing that the Ayungin Shoal currently being contested by China is clearly within the country’s 200 exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
The President also commended the members of the Armed forces who have been manning a government position in the Ayungin Shoal through a dilapidated ship.
“I should pay special tribute to the men of the AFP. We have men who had to be provisioned in Ayungin Shoal. They accomplished the mission without, I believe, increasing the tension and did it in a way that didn’t pose a threat to any other country–again consistent with the peaceful approach,” he said.
Changing personnel and bringing supplies are becoming a challenge for the Philippines as China has started to block supply ships from reaching government’s position.
On Sunday, the Philippines filed a memorial or a written pleading in the international tribunal containing evidence and basis for its claims in the West Philippine Sea. (PND)
by aimee | Apr 2, 2014 | Headlines
The Department of Trade and Industry Central Visayas is organizing an ASEAN Economic Integration Workshop for the Manfacturing, Trade/Retail, and Creative Industries on April 4, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Marco Polo Plaza Hotel in Cebu City.
In cooperation with the Export Marketing Bureau, Regional Development Authority (NEDA 7) and Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCCI), the activity seeks to identify action plans and strategies that would prepare and capacitate industry sectors for the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) integration.
Resource speakers from Manila will discuss on the overall direction of industry development, impact of AEC integration, and its advantages to the manufacturing, retail/trade and creative industries; while resource speakers from Cebu will share their knowledge, experiences and expectations to the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community integration.
Outputs of the workshop will be utilized as main inputs to the Central Visayas Roadmap to AEC integration and will serve as guiding document for the stakeholders in their preparation for the AEC integration.
Those who would like to participate in the ASEAN Economic Integration Workshop may call the DTI 7 Business Development Division for registration at 2550036, 255-0037 or 412-1989 local 601.
2015 marks the birth of the ASEAN Economic Community and the start of free trade between the 10 member-countries where products and services, among other things, will have a single market and production base and where labor, investments and capital will have a freer flow. (end)
by aimee | Mar 31, 2014 | Headlines
MANILA, Mar. 31, 2014 (PIA)–Adunay nagpaabot nga halos 96,000 ka trabaho sa mga bag-ong mo-graduwar sa kolehiyo ug bisan sa mga tambay, sa mga pribado ug pampublikong korporasyon karon sa nasud.
Kini ang gipahibalo kagahapon ni Kalihim Herminio ‘Sonny’ Coloma Jr. sa Presidential Communication Operation Office (PCOO), mao nga gi-aghat niini ang mga bag-ong ni graduwar nga aplayan ang maong mga bakanteng trabaho.
“Pinahuhusay ng Department of Labor and Employment ang Phi¬l¬jobnet, ang siyang na¬ngungunang job search and job and skills matchin¬g portal sa Pili¬pinas, na naglalaman ng 95,935 na bakanteng posisyon sa iba’t ibang korporasyon, ahensya at kompanya mula sa pribado at pampublikong sektor,” matud pa ni Coloma.
Matud pa nga asistahan sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), kauban na ang Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) ang mga bag-ong graduates aron makakuha sila dayon og trabaho.
Giingong mopahigayon usab ang DOLE sa pakigtambayayong sa Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) og application caravan ug e-services nga programa aron ipaduol ang serbisyo ug matabangan ang mga nilampos sa ilang pagtuon sa kursong nursing ug pagtudlo kanila sa pagkuha og permit alang sa ilang licensure examinations.
Gibanabanang mokabat sa 700,000 ang mga motapos sa Kolehiyo sugod karong bulan hangtud sa mga mosunod nga adlaw mao nga madugangan na usab og duha ka porsyento ang labor forces sa Pilipinas nga nikabat na sa 41.1 milyon niadtong 2013. (PIA7-Bohol/ECB)
by aimee | Mar 31, 2014 | Headlines, National News
The government continues to expand its employment programs to provide jobs for thousands expected to graduate this year and those who remain unemployed, Malacañang said on Sunday.
In an interview over dzRB Radyo ng Bayan, Presidential Communications Operations Office Secretary (PCOO) Herminio Coloma said 95,935 positions in different private and public corporations and agencies are currently up for grabs.
This is according to the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DOLE) www.phil-job.net, an internet-based job and applicant matching system, which aims to fast track the jobseeker’s search for employment and the employer’s search for manpower.
Coloma added the government is also providing financial aid to self-employed individuals, landless farmers, non-wage domestic workers, young workers with dependents, low-income earners, and those who do not have permanent employment due to calamities through the Integrated Livelihood and Emergency Employment Program.
He said this program also covers those who are listed in the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s national household targeting system.
The Communications Secretary further mentioned that the DOLE, in cooperation with the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), would conduct application caravan and e-services to bring their services closer to the fresh graduates of nursing and education courses in preparation for their licensure exams.
In a press briefing held in Malacañang last March 13, DOLE Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz said there is an estimated 600,000 to 700,000 new entrants to the labor force this year, although they have not yet studied as to how many among those would immediately be looking for jobs. (PND)
by aimee | Mar 27, 2014 | Headlines
MANILA, Mar. 27, 2014 (PIA)–Padayon ang administrasyong Aquino sa pagtutok sa pagpaningkamot aron makab-ot ang paglambo sa nasud nga maoy angay unahon sa gobyerno.
Kini ang gitumbok ni Kalihim Herminio Coloma, Jr. sa Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) kagahapon isip tubag sa gipahigayong survey sa research group nga Ibon Foundation diin migawas nga daghang Pilipino ang naningkamot nga magbaton og pambayad sa mga nag-unang panginahanglan sama sa pagkaon ug tambal.
“Patuloy na nakatuon ang pagsisikap ng pamahalaan na makamtan ang kaunlaran upang mabawasan ang karalitaan at lumaganap ang pagkalingang panlipunan alinsunod sa Philippine Development Plan,” matud pa ni Coloma.
Giingong padayon ang mga hingtungdang mga ahensiya sa gobyerno sa pagbantay sa presyo sa mga nag-unang panaliton ug naghimo na og mga mahinungdanong lakang aron matabangan ang katawhan, ilabi na ang mga kabus nga sektor sa katilingban.
Matud pa sa Kalihim nga gitagaan og pagtagad sa administrasyong Aquino ang resulta sa maong survey sa Ibon sugod Enero 18 hangtud 24 nga 1,500 ang gipangutana.
Sa gipahigayong survey, 54.8 porsiyento sa mga gipangutana ang miingon nga naglisud silang makapalit og igo nga pagkaon sa milabay nga 3 ka buwan, samtang 53 porsiyento usab ang nipahayag nga naglisud sila sa pagpalit og tambal o pagbayad alang sa pagpa-konsulta sa doktor kun aduna sila’y sakit.
Gitumbok ni Coloma nga sa nasudnong budget sa 2014, nigahin ang gobyerno og P87.1 bilyon alang sa Universal Health Care, ilabi na sa mga serbisyong may kalabot sa paglikay sa mga sakit ug aron maapil sa health insurance coverage ang may 14.8 milyong kabus.
Gawas niini, nigahin usab og P79 bilyon ang gobyerno aron masigurong hapsay nga mapatuman ang mga mahinungdanong serbisyo ilabi na ang mga gipaubos sa gipalapdang P62.6 bilyong programang Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino.
Gipasabot usab sa Kalihim nga gihimo ang Ibon Survey sa dihang nisaka sa 4.2 porsiyento ang inflation tungod sa mga nahitabo sa kalibotan, ilabi na ang patakaran sa US Federal Reserve nga nakaapekto sa pinalitay sa dolyar sa peso.
Matud pa ni Coloma nga padayong misalig ang atong mga economic managers nga ang inflation mapadayon sa 3 hangtud 5 ka porsiyento nga target sa Development Budget Coordination Committee. (PIA7-Bohol/ECB)
by aimee | Mar 26, 2014 | Headlines, National News
MANILA, Mar. 26, 2014 (PIA)–Ang Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), pinaagi sa Listahan o ang National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTSPR), mang-hire ug mobansay sa 1,245 ka staff nga mopahigayon og special validations alang sa mga beneficiaries sa Social Pension alang sa Indigent Senior Citizens ug Modified Conditional Cash Transfer (MCCT) Program.
Ipadala sila isip area coordinators, area supervisors, enumerators ug encoders.
Sa kinatibuk-ang gidaghanon sa nga staff nga e-hire, 878 niini ang ipadala nga mo-validate sa status sa 132,000 ka beneficiaries sa Social Pension nga wala sa listahan sa database, samtang 371 ang mo-assess sa mga potential beneficiaries alang sa MCCT Program. Target sa DSWD nga iapil ang naa sa 63,000 ka pamilya sa MCCT Program.
Ang Social Pension gi-implementar pinasubay sa Expanded Senior Citizen’s Act of 2010. Kini naghatag sa mga kwalipikadong beneficiaries og P500 nga binuwang stipend matag beneficiary aron idugang sa ilang pang adlaw-adlaw nga panginahanglan ug panginahanglang medical.
Samtang ang MCCT sa laing bahin, mohatag sa cash grants alang sa mga street ug displaced nga pamilya, nomadic indigenous peoples (IPs) o kadtong nagpuyo sa geographically isolated ug disadvantaged nga mga lugar basta lang kay mosunod sila sa mga kundisyon sa panglawas ug edukasyon.
“For the Social Pension, the purpose of the special validation is to verify the poverty status of its current recipients and ensure that only the poor senior citizens will continue receiving benefits,” pasabot ni DSWD Secretary Corazon Juliano-Soliman.
Ang DSWD Field Offices ang mo-facilitate sa recruitment ug screening sa mga aplikante sugod Abril 2014.
Ang mga interesadong aplikante mahimong moduso sa ilang aplikasyon sa pinakaduol nga buhatan sa DSWD o ngadto sa Social Welfare and Development Team Office.
Ang special validations magsugod sa ikaduhang kwarter sa 2014. (PIA7-Bohol/ECB)
