Call for Proposals: DOT Tourism Research Grant

The Department of Tourism (DOT), in an effort to promote tourism research in the country, is calling for proposals for its 2018 Tourism Research Grant. The individual research proposals eligible for financial assistance must be aligned with the DOT Secretary’s policy direction for the current year which is to promote Farm Tourism and Culinary Tourism. The grant aims…

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Assistant Secretary Roberto Alabado’s oathtaking

Alabado started his government career as a faculty member of the University of the Philippines- Mindanao teaching Urban and Regional Planning. He was part of the  local government of Davao City as the  City Planning and Development Coordinator under then Mayor Sara Duterte (2010-2013), before joining the Department of Tourism (DOT) as Regional Director for Region XI from 2015…

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Romulo A. Aromin, Jr., MD: The doctor is “IN”-vogue

Choosing a career could be a vital pronouncement… ostensibly indistinguishable to taking a mate for a lifetime partnership. Other professions are almost impossible to actually gauge whether they were perfect choices until one is done and already engaged in the field. The perils and risks are unanticipated and unforeseen and regrets will be too late…

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Sony Pictures Television Networks, Asia Renews Partnership with SKY Cable in the Philippines

MANILA (July 20, 2018) – Sony Pictures Television (SPT) Networks, Asia has renewed its channel carriage with SKY Cable, the country’s largest cable operator, in a multi-year agreement. Effective this month, SKY Cable will continue the carriage of SPT Networks’ popular channel portfolio including general entertainment powerhouses AXN and Sony Channel; leading anime channel Animax…

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August 2018 priority dates

EACH month, the Visa Office of the State Department publishes, in the Visa Bulletin, the priority dates for that particular month, for the various family and employment based categories. A priority date is a person’s “place in line” for a visa, meaning immigrant visas (or green cards) would be available for persons whose priority date…

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Toxic agents in our home

Most cancers, in general, are caused by the body’s repeated exposure to harmful chemicals in our environment. These include tobacco, alcohol, and all dangerous ingredients in common household cleansing agents, like laundry, kitchen, walls, windows, floor, and toilet detergents. Added to these are the variety of chemicals, solutions or sprays we have in the garage,…

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Dela Rosa: Senate run is still open

FORMER Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald dela Rosa is keeping his options open as he looks forward to the 2019 elections. Dela Rosa clarified to reporters on Tuesday night, July 17, that “Senator Bato” is still a possibility, following reports saying he would run for governor of Davao del Sur after transferring his voter…

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Majority of Filipinos oppose Charter change, says survey

Two in three Filipinos are not in favor of the current administration’s moves to change the 1987 Constitution, a Pulse Asia survey released Monday, July 16, revealed. Pulse Asia’s June 2018 National Survey on Charter Change, taken from June 15 to June 21, showed that 67 percent of Filipinos were against Charter change. Out of…

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‘No strings attached’ in Chinese grants to PH

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, July 17, led the groundbreaking ceremony of two China-funded bridges with Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Zhao Jianhua and other officials in Intramuros, Manila. The projects cost over P5 billion, but the country is not expected to spend on having the bridges built as the grants are coming from China….

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The cost and culture of being a caregiver

Filipinos share their experiences in caring for others THE Philippines has for years provided the international community with caregivers who have watched over people of all ages in both hospitals and homes. At the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital in Fountain Valley, California, two Filipinos shared their experiences working at the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit…

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The bucket list

The art of “staycation” (8th of a series) ”When you clear your mechanism and tune out the noise that invades your being, you may come to a rare state of grace – that God is in His heaven and all is right with the world.” [Select a handful of those things on your bucket list…

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Gov’t may limit number of tourists in Boracay

The government is planning to control the number of tourists that can visit Boracay, although the inter-agency task force overseeing the ongoing rehabilitation of the island has not yet determined the number of people that would be allowed once it reopens in October. This was revealed on Monday, July 16, when an official of the…

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Majority of Filipinos oppose Charter change, says survey

Two in three Filipinos are not in favor of the current administration’s moves to change the 1987 Constitution, a Pulse Asia survey released Monday, July 16, revealed. Pulse Asia’s June 2018 National Survey on Charter Change, taken from June 15 to June 21, showed that 67 percent of Filipinos were against Charter change. Out of…

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