Thursday, January 31, 2013

PBSP Press Release

PBSP Chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan
with Dennis Uy (right), president and
CEO of Phoenix Petroleum Philippines
Inc. (Photo courtesy of Pbsp)

PBSP marks 42nd Founding Day
and Members Meeting

The Philippine Business for Social Progress (PBSP) recently celebrated its 42nd year of being the largest business-led social development organization in the country at the Dusit Thani Hotel in Makati with the theme “The Role of Business in Promoting Inclusive Growth”.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Story on Chinese car Lifan

Photo from Ravinian Distributors website 


Coming from profit drop, China's Lifan selling 6 models in Philippine market

Ravinian Distributors Inc., "which is doing business under the name and style of Lifan cars," is now selling six models of the Chinese vehicle. 

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Epson Phl Contest

Epson Phl Corp. Invites You to “Think Smart”


Epson Philippines Corporation (EPC) is inviting the public to “think smart” and share their ingenious tips for a chance to win exciting prizes.

Monday, January 28, 2013

PHIVOLCS Tsunami Warning System

PHIVOLCS to set up tsunami detection and warning system in Corregidor Island

The Philippine Institute of  Volcanology and Seismology and the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI), both agencies under the Department of Science and Technology, expect to set up a Community Tsunami Detection and Warning System in Corregidor Island before the end of January to serve its Manila Bay coastal communities.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Creativity Contest Press Release

Sec. Herminio Coloma, Jr., Head, Presidential Communications
Operations Office (PCOO) with Mr. William Guido, President and
CEO of Globaltronics, Inc., during the signing of the Memorandum
of Agreement and Endorsement by PCOO of Globaltronics’ 1st
National Digital Arts Awards > Fast Forward Pilipinas!  


FAST FORWARD PILIPINAS!
Creativity Contest to Leapfrog Wealth Creation for the Nation

A New Learning Revolution
The 1st National Digital Arts Awards (NDAA) Fast Forward Pilipinas! was launched November last year as a national contest to recognize young digital artists and spur the growth of the digital art industry in the Philippines.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Press Release: DOST


DOST, IPO push for intellectual property protection

“Protect your intellectual property right from the start,” advised Carmen Peralta, director of Intellectual Property Office Philippines (IPO-Phil), to a group of young technopreneurs during the Investors and Start-ups Forum held at the UP-Ayala Technohub in Quezon City last January 11.

CEGP on Anniversary of Ortega Killing

Site at Palawan where Dr. Gerry Ortega was shot.
Photo by Dennis Estopace.
PRESS RELEASE

On slain Palawan broadcaster's Second Death Anniversary: Student journalists in Southern Tagalog radio-hop for Justice

Friday, January 25, 2013

Land Use Law Passage Urged


Press Release
24 January 2013

 

Urgent cry of land use advocates to Senators


Make LAWS,
not War!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

CEGP-ST Press Release



COLLEGE EDITORS GUILD OF THE PHILIPPINES-SOUTHERN TAGALOG CHAPTER

January 15, 2013


Reference Person: Michael C. Alegre, Secretary General, CEGP Southern Tagalog

Campus journalists in Southern Tagalog support netizens’ protest at SC; Lead regional campaign to junk Cybercrime Law

Statement of the FOI Youth Initiative

On the constant delays against the Freedom of Information Bill

We in the FOI Youth Initiative (FYI) are extremely dismayed by the failure of our elected Representatives to fulfill their responsibility to attend the sessions of the House. Electoral concerns should never get in the way of their duty to pass relevant legislation like the Freedom of Information Bill. When students skip classes, we miss out on the opportunity to learn. However, when legislators skip sessions, they shirk on their mandate to serve. No to further delays! Pass FOI now!

Press Release: Southern Tagalog Militants Storm US Embassy

Stock photo courtesy of Bayan-ST.

JANUARY 21, 2012


MILITANTS CALL FOR JUSTICE AND IMMEDIATE SCRAPPING OF US-RP VFA
  
MANILA PHILIPPINES-- Militants from Southern Tagalog slams the US Embassy with the recent incident of the USS Guardian’s destruction of the Tubattaha Reef, a national protected area.

Monday, January 21, 2013

Photo Exhibit: Campaign for Land Use Planning Now!



The Campaign for Land Use Planning Now! and the Office of Senator Gregorio Honasan II, will be staging a photo exhibit entitled Yuta: Limitadong Kabtangan (Land: A Limited Resource) on January 21-31, 2013 at the Senate of the Philippines.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

National Autism Consciousness Week


Logo from Autism Society of the Philippines

17th National AUTISM Consciousness
Week Celebration
Enero 20 to 27, 2013
Theme: “Autismo Alamin: Pagtanggap at Pag-Unawa Palaganapin”

ISA sa bawat 88 na bata ang may autismo sa USA (Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network in April 2012) at marami pa ang magkakaroon ng autism sa darating na mga taon. Ang Autismo ang siyang pinakamabilis dumami na developmental disability sa mundo.

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Pahayag mula sa Kagawaran ng Agham at Teknolohiya


Boatmen at Danajon Reef. Photo by Dennis Estopace.


Abot-kayang DOST rescue boat

Los BaƱos, Laguna – Mas matibay, abot-kaya at gawang Filipino na DOST rescue boat ang ipinakikilala ng Department of Science and Technology Regional Office IVA (DOST IV-A) na alternatibo sa mga imported at gawa sa goma na rescue boat.

Friday, January 18, 2013

FOI Youth Initiative Press Release


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
18 January 2013


With 9 session days left, youth groups strengthen call for FOI passage

With only nine days left remaining for the House of Representatives to conduct its sessions, youth groups reiterated their call for the passage of the Freedom of Information Bill.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Press Release on Hunger by the United Nations



1 in 8 persons worldwide go to bed hungry; hunger, one of world's top 10 health risks; and other recent data on hunger from the World Food Programme
TOP 10 FACTS ABOUT HUNGER

1. Approximately 870  million people in the world do not eat enough to be healthy. That means that one in every eight  people on Earth goes to bed hungry each night. (Source: FAO, 2012)

2. Most of the progress against hunger  was achieved before 2007/08. Since then, global progress in reducing hunger has slowed and levelled off.  (Source: FAO,  2012)

3. Hunger is number one on the list of the world’s top 10 health risks. It kills more people every year than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. (Source: UNAIDS, 2010; WHO, 2011).

4. A third of all deaths in children under the age of five in developing countries are linked to undernutrition. (Source: IGME, 2011) 

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Photo Release from PBSP



GENERIKA RESPONDS TO PBSP’S CALL FOR SUPPORT
FOR THE VICTIMS OF TYPHOON PABLO

Friday, January 4, 2013

DOST Press Release

Philippine National Institute on Aging Executive Director Dr. Patricio
F. Reyes speaks during the DOST-NAST forum on "Quality Aging."
(Photo courtesy of DOST-STII.)


National Institute on Aging as solution to “graying Ph” pushed in DOST Forum

The National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), an advisory body of the Department of Science  and Technology,  recently conducted a Science Information Forum  on “Quality Aging” in a bid to help address health problems associated with the graying of the global population, including that of the Philippines.