Bukidnon, Benguet, Batangas eyed as agri-tourism sites
The academic community is pushing for agri-tourism as a key to economic growth.
The academic community is pushing for agri-tourism as a key to economic growth.
Job creation is more important for the Philippines and not just economic growth, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said Wednesday.
WHILE still on schedule, Cebu City’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project may lose the support of financial institutions like the World Bank if it gets delayed further.
DESPITE the President’s deferred approval of the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project, proponents remain optimistic after World Bank officials expressed continued support for the mass transit reform. Rafael Yap, head of the Cebu Integrated Traffic Operation Management (Citom), said a WB official told him that they would help lobby with President Benigno Aquino III and [...]
Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said he worried that the World Bank and other funding institutions may start having “reservations” about financing a Bu Rapid Transit system for Cebu City after President Benigno Aquino III deferred action on it.
“We’re the most clever of species,” biologist Jane Goodall wrote. “How is it we destroy the only planet we have?”
Politicians and aid officials will gather in Japan’s quake- and tsunami-hit northeast Tuesday to discuss what lessons can be learned from disasters.
Where did the $500 million World Bank loan supposedly for relief and rehabilitation efforts in areas devastated by Tropical Storm Sendong go?
Working women in the Philippines earn just 76 percent of what Filipino men do, indicating the still significant room for improvement as far as gender equality in the country is concerned.
The Office of the Ombudsman has a new international partner in its fight against graft and corruption.
The world’s city dwellers are fast producing more and more trash in a “looming crisis” that will pose huge financial and environmental burdens, the World Bank warned Wednesday.
Could Supreme Court Administrator Midas Marquez, who is closely identified with impeached former Chief Justice Renato Corona, be the next to go?
The World Bank has considered extending technical and financial assistance to help the Philippines reach its housing targets, Vice President Jejomar Binay, also the chairman of the Philippines’ Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council, said Tuesday.
