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  • MANILA, June 19 - The salary increase of government workers nationwide takes effect July 1, 2009, Malacañang said today.

    Executive Secretary Eduardo R. Ermita said that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Executive Order (EO) No. 811 on June 18 to effect the hike in the salaries of government workers.

    The directive provides for the appropriation of P18.4 billion from the 2009 General Appropriations Act and savings of different departments, bureaus, offices and agencies of the national government.

  • MANILA, July 14, 2009-A group of former seminarians would help raise funds for the campaign of Pampanga Gov. Ed Panlilio should he run for the presidency in 2010.

    The Philippine Alliance of eX-Seminarians (PAX) said they would support the priest-turned politician because he stands for a different kind of politics.

    According to one of its convenors, Atty. Ricardo Ribo, the governor is exactly the kind of leader that the country needs.

    "At the moment only Among Ed personify our advocacy. We are most willing and we should all be willing to do that," Ribo said.

  • 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.

  • MANILA, July 15, 2009-A Mindanao-based prelate said the government should not just rush amnesty in favor of the Abu Sayyaf members responsible for the kidnapping and release of ICRC volunteers "because of the track record of kidnapping" over the past few years.

    In a radio interview, Prelature of Marawi Bishop Edwin Angot Dela Pena, MSP, said previous Abu Sayyaf victims are asking for justice.

    "I think we have to satisfy the demands of justice as there are minimum requirements of love and justice although we can talk about amnesty later," the prelate said.

  • MANILA, July 15 -- Freed International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) worker Eugenio Vagni left for Italy Wednesday morning following his release over the weekend from Abu Sayyaf bandits.

    Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC) said Vagni took the KLM flight 804 at 10:45 am at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) bound for a stopover in Amsterdam and then fly to Italy.

    The Filipino community in Florence, Italy has prepared a Thanksgiving Mass for Vagni.

  • MANILA, June 5 (PNA) - Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri on Friday lauded the Senate and the House of Representatives for passing the Home Development Mutual Fund Law of 2009, also known as the Pag-IBIG Fund Law.

    Zubiri said Congress' approval of the new law on Pag-IBIG Fund will "help over 1.5 million Filipinos who are renting houses to better plan for their housing needs."

  • NAGA CITY—The only Jesuit learning institution in Bikol region is also the first among all other schools and universities in the country to have institutional accreditation from Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU).

    Ateneo de Naga University (AdNU) beat all the major Manila-based universities to the accreditation.

  • MANILA, July 7, 2009-Roman Catholic bishops will choose one among them on July 11 who will serve the top post of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).

    The 98 active bishop "electors" will gather on Saturday to Sunday for the CBCP's 99th plenary assembly at the Pope Pius XII Catholic Center in Paco, Manila.

    Highlight of the meeting is the election of a new president who would fill the shoes of outgoing CBCP head, Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo.

  • Naga City  -- While many Bikolanos celebrated and enjoyed SM's opening in Naga City, few were conversant of the crisis brought by typhoon "Dante" which ravaged areas due to landslides particularly in Catanduanes and Sorsogon. Other vicinities in Bikol were also affected due to the floods brought by the typhoon.

    According to the National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC), "Dante" killed 25 people in Bikol while three remain to be missing. Damages were estimated to reach P191.2 million including P170.535 million in 25,117.11 metric tons of crops; and P127.7 million in infrastructure.

  • MANILA, July 24 -- In his quest to clinch the presidential nomination of the ruling coalition, Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro on Friday formally took his oath as a member of the merged Lakas-Kampi-CMD (Christian Muslim Democrat) party.

    Party president and Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita administered the oath on Teodoro at the party headquarters along Ortigas-Edsa, in San Juan City.

    Teodoro's wife, Tarlac Rep. Monica Prieto-Teodoro, also took her oath as a member of the newly-merged ruling party.