by anyajulia | Nov 19, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) holds its annual Entrepreneurs’ Fair from November 19-21, 2009.
Close to 100 entrepreneurs are selling quality products and export items ranging from clothes and accessories, toys, houseware, arts and crafts and novelty items to Christmas décor, ornamental plants, linen products, plastic products, leather products, household and office items, food and fruits at manufacturers’ prices during the three-day fair.
The Fair will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is free. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Nov 19, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, Major Events
The Arroyo Administration’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) gets the needed boost as World Bank grants US$ 405 million loan to support poverty reduction.
The Washington-based lender said that the loan grant will strengthen the capacity of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) as the project implementer and as a social protection agency, finance part of the new conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, and establish a national household targeting system to identify the poor and improve targeting in social protection programs.
The program is focused on the poor families in the various municipalities and provinces of the country and it is the DSWD that chooses the program beneficiaries through the conduct of a survey called the Proxy Means Test that is conducted to determine the poorest of the poor families.
Transfers to some 376,000 households are covered by the World Bank loan, the rest being financed from the Philippine government’s own budget resources. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Nov 19, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, Major Events
The Department of Education (DepEd) and the University of Auckland (UoA) in New Zealand sealed an agreement to push for reading proficiency among selected public elementary schools in the country.
The partnership will push for the “Reading Recovery in the Philippines” Project, a research-based early literacy intervention that successfully decreased the incidence of reading and writing difficulties among children across a range of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural-social groups in New Zealand.
In the agreement, the UoA will train Philippines Reading Recovery trainers and tutors, who will be selected by DepEd. As the Department implements the Reading Recovery Project, partners from New Zealand will facilitate the project through advisory and support visits. The project is also comprised of research for moderation and evaluation and wider academic collaboration. (DepEd)
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by anyajulia | Nov 19, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, Major Events
The United Nations seeks US$143.7 million to support the Philippine Government in revised appeal for typhoon disasters.
The $144 million will cover the work of UN agencies, the International Organization for Migration and several non-governmental organizations from November until March 2010.
Only $26 million was received following the early October requesting $74 million, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Financial Tracking Service (FTS). (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Nov 18, 2009 | Foreign Exchange, Headlines, Major Events
The Philippines proposes the adoption of common visa among citizens of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in a bid to boost investments, particularly in the tourism sector.
The Philippines, through the Bureau of Immigration, is hosting the annual meeting of ASEAN immigration chiefs and consuls from the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam and officials of the Australian immigration and citizenship office.
Under the proposal, he explained that foreigners holding an ASEAN common visa can travel freely to any ASEAN member-country without the need to secure an entry visa. (PIA)
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by anyajulia | Nov 17, 2009 | Headlines, Major Events, National News
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo enjoins the public to actively participate in the observance of Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week on November 19 to 25, 2009.
Memo Circular No. 186 directs the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Global Warming and Climate Change, in cooperation with the Presidential Task Force on Climate Change, to spearhead the 2009 celebration.
All the government agencies are enjoined to participate and help in the awareness campaign on climate change through several suggested activities.
One of the suggested activities is the convening of the National Organizing Committee for the observance of the week-long celebration.
Another suggested activity is the holding of the Friday Climate Change Briefing with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Finally, in order to drum up public support for the week-long activities, the display of Global Warming and Climate Change Consciousness Week banners or tarpaulins in all government offices and GOCCs, is also suggested. (PIA)
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