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The chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means said the lower chamber will push for a higher agriculture budget in the proposed 2022 General Appropriations Act (GAA) to fight inflation and hasten the country’s economic recovery. Albay Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda, the panel chairman, said lawmakers are eyeing…
Published July 7, 2021, 9:09 AM Davao City 1st District Rep. Paolo Duterte and ACT CIS Partylist Rep. Eric Yap, together with their businessmen friends, pledged a P5 million donation to the families of military personnel and civilians who perished in the July 4 C-130 crash in Sulu. Reps. Paulo Duterte (1st District, Davao City) and Eric Go Yap (ACT CIS Partylist) – Photo by PNA Duterte said portion of the amount will also go to the injured victims. Latest developments on the incident indicated that the death toll rose to 53 while 45 were injured. “To us, they are heroes and we salute the...
Hi-tech lab taps advanced technology to boost Singapore's future pandemic response Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Pathnova Laboratories, a medical diagnostic company backed by Temasek Life Sciences Accelerator and headquartered in Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, is contributing to Singapore's COVID-19 diagnostic capability through its partnership in a new clinical diagnostic laboratory. Amid the ongoing global COVID-19 situation, the lab plans to tap advanced technology like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data analytics to innovate, boosting the country's ...
July 01, 2021 BAGUIO CITY – To ensure that people are well informed about the government’s coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccination program, the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has installed a system that will provide free Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) to the residents of Mankayan town in Benguet. Mankayan Mayor Frensel Ayong on Wednesday said the project is a joint undertaking of the DICT, the Mankayan local government unit (LGU), and Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC) to provide connectivity to the primary vaccination site establish...
Holding back: Media split on covering Bong Go's poor performance in Senate CMFR 31 May 2021, 16:13 GMT+10 LAST MAY 20 and 25, neophyte Senator Christopher "Bong" Go struggled to answer veteran politician and Minority Floor Leader Franklin Drilon's questions about Go's proposed bills to increase bed capacities and to re-nationalize hospitals. Some reports noted Go's faltering performance, the kind of coverage Go has not quite gotten from the media. Other news organizations stuck to their PR-type coverage of Go, or cited officials who favored him. Go's legislative capacity As chair of the Senat...