Latest

LEGAZPI CITY -- DENTAL AND MEDICAL Missions including relief distribution and engineering works are being conducted by units of the Philippine Army in the typhoon-stricken locality and surrounding villages of Hubo,  Magallanes in Sorsogon province, where 18 people had died and scores of dwellings lost  in destructive landslides.

The 901^st Brigade, PA community relations office in Camp Simeon Ola here reported, that Dental and Medical missions including engineering works in the affected villages were conducted from May 7 to 13.

MANILA, May 14, 2009- Zero Waste activists, a prominent church leader, a distinguished public servant and pro-environment beauty titlists spoke as one in urging political parties and wannabees to think "green" as they woo the "pinoy" votes.

With just one year to go before the polls, Caloocan Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez, Jr. and Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Rene Sarmiento joined the EcoWaste Coalition and the Miss Earth Foundation in exhorting all election stakeholders to heed the plea for reduced campaign on waste and pollution.

NEW YORK, May 16 -- Crude prices retreated on Friday on the weak outlook for global energy demand.

The International Energy Agency forecast the global oil demand would hit a 28-year low this year, saying optimism about an economic recovery was not reviving appetite for energy.

The Paris-based organization cut the global daily energy demand to 83.2 million barrels per day in its latest monthly report, 3 percent lower than last year, and "the sharpest single year's fall since 1981."

SORSOGON CITY, May 15 (PNA) - Certain provisions of the Local Government Code of 1991 have been breached and thousands of poor families here would be groping in the dark.

This developed amidst non-receipt for the past 11 months of their royalty shares by the city and eight barangays that play host to a giant geothermal energy facility being operated by the Energy Development Corporation (EDC).

Naga City (May 11) - With the existing global financial crisis nowadays, the government found a way to mitigate its impact to our country through our very own nurses. The fact that more and more nurses migrate each year for higher salaries and more job opportunities also leads to the fact that many nursing graduates here in the Philippines remain to be either underemployed or unemployed.

The government has come up with a project, the Nurse Assigned in Rural Areas (NARS),

On May 11, ANC sponsored a “Leadership Forum” at the Ateneo de Manila University for prospective presidential candidates for the 2010 elections. Those who attended were Chiz Escudero, Dick Gordon, Ed Panlilio, Mar Roxas and Gilbert Teodoro.