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DAVAO CITY - This city has received the national 2021 Gawad Paglilingkod sa Sambayanan (GAPAS) Award for Best LGU (local government unit) Implementing Day Care Service Category given by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). In a statement on Friday, the city government said the award was received by Davao City Social Welfare and Development Office, Preschoolers and Children's Concerns Division (PSCCD) Chief Gilda Dela Gente-Salvana and Dr. Melodina Pardiollo on February 28...

SAFE. Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. executive Krizle Grace Mago is under the protective custody of the House of Representatives on Friday (Oct. 1, 2021). Magno requested protection while investigation is ongoing on the face shields that Pharmally sold to the government. (Photo courtesy of Arturo Catarata/HOR) MANILA - The House of Representatives (HOR) has placed Pharmally Pharmaceutical Corp. executive Krizle Grace Mago under its protective custody, days after her revelation at a Senate inquir...

NLEX Corporation is planning to begin the construction of a two-kilometer expressway that links Mindanao Avenue to Quirino Highway in early September.  As part of the current administration’s Build Build Build Program, the P2-billion project will be integrated into the future NLEX expansion to C-5/C.P. Garcia near Katipunan Avenue, and is projected to alleviate traffic congestion along Mindanao Avenue for motorists passing through NLEX, according to J. Luigi L. Bautista, NLEX Corp. President...

Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo A few years back while attending the Leaders in Development programme of Harvard Kennedy School, our professor asked us to write one thing which we aspired to achieve in the next ten years. We wrote it in a piece of paper and placed it beside our name card. I thought for a moment and scribbled — “Philippines achieving its full potential.” In the 1960’s the Philippines had the second highest per capita income in Asia, behind only Japan. A decade later, South Korea ...