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Government

NEA Embarks on Massive Rural Electrification Drive to Boost Rural Development – MASONGSONG

The National Electrification Administration (NEA) is allocating P35.57 billion in 2017 as it embarks on a massive electrification campaign targeting 23,710 towns in far-flung areas in the country. The program is a landmark effort of NEA Administrator Edgardo R. Masongsong who characterizes it as the realization of the agency’s mandate “to bring electricity, empowerment, business […]

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Politics

INC Founding Anniversary to be Declared as a National Non-working Holiday – PRIMICIAS-AGABAS

  The House committee on revision of laws has approved four bills seeking to declare July 27 of every year as a special national non-working holiday in commemoration of the founding anniversary of the Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) in the country. The declaration is in recognition of the significant contribution of the INC and its […]

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Sports & Entertainment

Is the Philippines Ready for the Olympics?

The question above was raised by journalists in a media forum in Manila last November 2016 before the Philippine Olympic Committee elections when the Pangilinan-backed Ricky Vargas of the Philippine Amateur Boxing Association guested at the Kapihan sa Manila Bay media forum at Cafe Adriatico. Vargas was then running against the incumbent Peping Cojuangco, who […]