MANILA, Philippines -- The Professional Regulation Commission has announced that 1,054 out of 1,985 passed the Physician Licensure Examination given by the Board of Medicine in the cities of Manila and Cebu this month.
MANILA, Philippines -- From P400 million in 2006, the Department of Education’s “Adopt-a-School” Program last year received a record P4.05 billion, or more than a 900-percent increase, in donations from the private sector.
MANILA, Philippines -- The new committee on reforms at the House of Representatives wants congressmen to liquidate their “pork barrel” before they would be given the next tranche of their multimillion-peso entitlement euphemistically called the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).
MANILA, Philippines -- From the original budget of P26.48 billion, the Department of Education plans to scale down the ambitious open and distance learning, or cyber education, program to a “doable P3 to 4 billion.”
MANILA, Philippines -- Vice President Noli de Castro said on Thursday it’s still premature and highly speculative for certain officials of the ruling Lakas political party to make him its standard bearer as the 2010 presidential election was still “too far away.”
MANILA, Philippines -- Two major players in the 1986 "people power" revolt that ended Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship will go separate ways at the 22nd anniversary celebration of the historic event on Monday.
MANILA, Philippines -- The Philippine National Police (PNP) has formed a special team to arrest former Abra governor Vicente Isidro Valera, the alleged mastermind in the killing of Abra representative Luis Bersamin Jr., once the court issues a warrant for his arrest, an official said Thursday.
MANILA, Philippines -- The Department of Justice (DoJ) said Thursday that Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr., the key witness in the Senate probe of the national broadband network (NBN) deal, and Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) chairman Romulo Neri could be criminally liable for violating a Palace circular on secrecy.
