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Published April 24, 2021 4:46pm Scientists have discovered three extinct species of giant cloud rats, locally known as buot, in the Philippines. After a four-year study, scientists from University of the Philippines, National Museum of the Philippines, and Field of Museum of Natural History in the US discovered
Carpomys dakal, the largest of the fossil cloud rat named so because it was “much larger compared to the known living species in the same genus”;
Crateromys ballik, which was “slightly smaller than the living Crateromys species in Luzon”; and
Batomys cagayanensis, named after the place where the archeological sites were located.
De La Salle University (DLSU) (dlsu.edu.ph)
The policy is in effect starting Term 2 of the academic year 2020-2021 until further notice.
“The No Fail Policy means that the grade of withdrawn (W) shall be reported in place of a 0.0. A mark of W means that credit is not earned for the course but it is not considered a failure. The W mark is not included in the computation of the GPA,” the university said.
Ineligibility rules are likewise suspended.
According to DLSU, the policy of W instead of 0.0 is applicable to every undergraduate and graduate student, including the College of Law.
Published April 24, 2021, 7:00 AM
President Duterte has formally appointed Karl Kendrick T. Chua as socioeconomic planning secretary as well as head of the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
One-year after serving the positions in an acting capacity, Chua is now officially the government’s chief economist and development planner.
Chua, a former official in the Department of Finance (DOF), was appointed as acting NEDA director-general after former Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia stepped down from office in April last year.
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua (Photo credit https://www.neda.gov.ph/secretarys-corner/)
Prior to joining the government, Chua served as senior country economist of the World Bank for the Philippines. He was with the Washington-based multilateral institution for 12-years from 2004 to 2016.
Dr. Ted Herbosa (Ted Herbosa’s Facebook)
On Friday, April 23, Herbosa reacted to reports of a senior citizen who succumbed to a heart attack while in line at a community pantry organized by Angel Locsin in Quezon City.
In a Twitter post, Herbosa described the death of the senior citizen as “death by community pantry,” adding “I told you so!”
Herbosa since apologized, saying his tweet “may have sounded like a criticism but was ill-judged.”
“I support community pantries as acts of kindness. What I had intended to say was I object to violations of public health standards, which increase transmission of COVID-19,” he wrote on Facebook late Friday.