Each of the candidates brought their own cheering squads. Chants and shouts of the supporters filled the Cebu Cultural Center where the 3rd Inquirer Senate forum was held on Friday.
“We stand corrected. It was an honest mistake,” Philippine Daily Inquirer’s editor-in-chief Letty Jimenez Magsanoc said Saturday.
We started our Kariton Program in Novaliches, Quezon City. The class is being held once a week in a vacant lot. After a few weeks, we noticed a big improvement among our street children beneficiaries.
The next suicide to rock the country’s education system might be that of an underpaid teacher.
PRINT, DIGITAL NEWSSTAND, KINDLE: The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Cebu Daily News and Bandera will have no issues on Good Friday and Black Saturday; Inquirer Libre will have no issue on Maundy Thursday as well.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) honored the late Philippine Daily Inquirer publisher Isagani Yambot Sr. and four others as “Press Freedom Heroes” for their role in advancing press freedom in the Philippines.
He’s a medical anthropologist, a veterinarian, a social scientist, the dean of the University of the Philippines’ College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, and an Inquirer columnist.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer remains the country’s most read newspaper, according to the latest survey by The Nielsen Co. The latest Nielsen Media Index/Consumer and Media Views survey, covering the third quarter of 2012, found that the Inquirer is the newspaper of choice of 47.5 percent of respondents nationwide who had read a newspaper the day before. The Inquirer is way ahead of the Manila Bulletin (33.7 percent) and the Philippine Star (33.2 percent).
A Makati court has dismissed the P5-million damage suit filed by the family of Hubert Webb against the Philippine Daily Inquirer in 1995 for “sheer dearth of merit.”
The city prosecutor’s office has dismissed a P100-million libel suit filed by the developer of Camp John Hay against the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) for notices it published in newspapers that warned the public against investing in John Hay projects.
The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) on Thursday denounced an aide of Zambales Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr. for berating an Inquirer correspondent whom he accused of false reporting, especially on issues involving the provincial executive and mining in the province.
Responding to appeals for help, the Philippine Daily Inquirer has teamed up with the Philippine Red Cross to extend relief to victims of this week’s deadly floods, as the government mobilized various agencies to rush aid to 2 million people affected by the disaster.
Soldiers and a sorority launched “Project Shoe box” in February hoping to collect 1,000 shoe boxes and fill these with school supplies for children in some of the poorest parts of Southern Luzon.
