Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Philippine Arts Festival 2013

Pangalay dance by Melengas
Dance Ensemble. Photo from NCCA.
January 23, 2013

NCCA Gets Ready for the Philippine Arts Festival 2013

The whole month of February of every year, the Philippines celebrates the National Arts Month (NAM).

President Aquino lied -FOI Law Advocates

FOI: Mag-Ingat sa Hindi Tunay

TODAY, we close our people's campaign for the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill in the 15th Congress. We have, to the extent that our capacities and limited resources permitted, exhausted all avenues that we thought were open to us to get positive, decisive action from the leaders of the House of Representatives and from President Aquino no less.

Australian Embassy Media Release

Photo from Australian Embassy.
For immediate release
4 February 2013

Australia responds to appeal for more aid for ‘Pablo’ victims

Monday, February 4, 2013

PNoy certifies land use bill as urgent

CAMPAIGN FOR LAND USE POLICY NOW!(CLUP Now!)
Press Release
02 February 2013
Contact:
Angelica Carballo 

President Benigno S. Aquino III certified the two-decade old land use bill as urgent last Friday.

United Nations Press Release on Hunger


US$0.25 go to hungry for each "healthy" meal we take

TABLE FOR TWO (TFT) has partnered with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in a unique "calorie transfer" programme based on saving food and sharing with hungry people.

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Australian Embassy Media Release

2012 Photo of Royal Australian Navy
crew of the HMAS Sydney doing commu-
nity service in Tondo, Manila.
(Photo courtesy: Australian Embassy)
29 January 2013

Visiting Australian Parliamentary delegation focused on good governance and law enforcement cooperation

DOST says new lab to cut scan procedure costs

Photo of first Technetium-99mGenerator.
From Wikipedia.

STARTING this year, Filipinos  may avail of cheaper medical diagnostic tests as the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) is set to locally produce Technetium-99m (Tc-99m).