MANILA, Philippines – Climate change is happening faster than we believed only two years ago. Continuing with business as usual almost certainly means dangerous, perhaps catastrophic, climate change during the course of this century. This is the most important challenge for this generation of politicians. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines—The European Union and some international funding agencies have urged local governments to strengthen alliances to avert the damaging impact of climate change and the global financial crisis on local communities. Read the rest of this entry »

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) is enlisting the help pf teachers, police and IT groups to help survey available network infrastructure in preparation for the 2010 elections. Read the rest of this entry »

THE BANGKO SENTRAL NG Pilipinas expects remittances to grow by more than 3 percent this year.

Under the BSP’s original forecast, remittances was supposed to register a flat growth this year from last year’s $16.4 billion. Read the rest of this entry »

FORTY-FIVE local companies and overseas recruitment agencies are expected to join the first district-wide job fair in Cebu “Trabaho alang sa Quinto Distrito” on Sept. 26 at the Danao Civic Center, Danao City, Cebu. Read the rest of this entry »

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – Some 20,000 Filipinos are needed to work at the newly established Integrated Free Export Zone (IFEZ) Incheon, South Korea, according to presidential economic adviser and Albay governor Joey Salceda. Read the rest of this entry »

A Malacañang survey reported that Noynoy’s Sept. 5 to 6 rating of 51 percent has gone down to 33 percent by Sept. 21. Veteran campaigner, DILG Secretary Ronnie Puno expressed the view that the euphoria from President Cory’s death will not last till election day. Recall that in the survey of The Center, headed by FVR PR man Ed Malay, Noynoy Aquino got only 11 percent. In that survey, Lakas-Kampi-CMD president Ed Ermita claimed that Gilbert Teodoro’s rating has gone up from 0.2 percent to about 5 percent, still way below four opposition presidentiables. Read the rest of this entry »

Catholic bishops earlier threatened presidential and congressional candidates who support the birth control bill their withdrawal of support come election day, unless these candidates turn their back on the same legislative measure. Read the rest of this entry »

The proposed automated elections next year now face a new hurdle, computer trans-missions, which, if not assured for at least 25 percent of the country, would make the Commission on Elections (Comelec) revert to manual polling next year, Comelec Chairman Jose Melo said yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »

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Adisclosure notice. As I am an official of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), I must inform readers of this column that all the issues, statements and information written in this space are my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the position of the Office of Programs and Standards (OPS) in particular and the CHED in general except those that pertain to policies, standards, guidelines and other information issued by CHED, Executive Orders issued by the Office of the President and other policies, rules and regulations of other government and nongovernment institutions. Read the rest of this entry »