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SEARCH FOR NCR OUTSTANDING BARANGAY NUTRITION SCHOLAR BEGINS
Wednesday 22nd of May 2013
QUEZON CITY, May 22 (PIA) -- The Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) of the National Capital Region (NCR) is now evaluating the performances of the outstanding barangay nutrition scholars in the 17 local governments in NCR for the “2012 Regional Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar (ROBNS)” award.
Barangay Nutrition Scholars(BNS) are evaluated yearly by their local nutrition program coordinator based on the criteria set by the National Nutrition Council.
In each barangay, a BNS with exemplary performance will be chosen as the outstanding barangay nutrition scholar (OBNS) of the city/municipality and will have the chance to vi...
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16May2013LOS BANOS, Laguna, May 16 (PIA) --The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through the Science Education Institute (SEI) has released the names of the scholarship qualifiers for 2013. The new scholarship awardees must seek admission in any of the priority science and technology (S&T) fields of study at any state college, university or CHED-identified centers of excellence/centers of development. Each qualifier shall receive a notice of award from the DOST-SEI or DOST regional office s...
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15May2013BACOLOD CITY,May 15 (PIA6) -- Some 50 grantees of the Bacolod City Scholarship Program gathered at the Bacolod Government Center recently for a testimonial thanksgiving, with the city officials, a statement from the city said. The scholars lauded the city administration for its support and commitment to the scholarship program. The graduates included 40 from the Bacolod City College, five at the Technological University of the Philippines in the Visayas, two each from the University of St. La...
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10May2013NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, May 10 (PIA6) -- The provincial government gave recognition to Negros Occ. Scholarship Program (NOSP) scholars who graduated and received academic honors and distinctions from their respective colleges and universities, in a ceremony held at the Negros Occ. Multi-purpose Activity Center in Bacolod City, last April 30, a statement from the Capitol said. During the same ceremony, 128 NOSP grantees for the school year 2013-2014 were also welcomed. As has always been the tradit...
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09May2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, May 9 (PIA) -- Scholars of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OWWA-ARMM) from Maguindanao and Lanao Del Sur gathered together for a two-day conference at Awang Hillside Resort and Hotel, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao. A total of 56 scholars participated the activity which began yesterday in various games designed to have them interact and work together for a common goal which focused on self-awareness, team ...
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08May2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, May 8 (PIA) -- New beneficiaries of the scholarship programs of Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in Region 12 inked a memorandum of agreement that finalized their status as official OWWA scholars starting this school year 2013-2014. The new scholars, one for Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP), three for Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program (CMWSP), and 56 for the OFW Dependents Scholarship Program (ODSP), along with their p...
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08May2013ROXAS CITY, Capiz, May 8 (PIA) -- Members of the Government Service Insurance System has still a month more to apply for the agency’s scholarship program. This after GSIS President and General Manager Robert Vergara said in an online news that the deadline for filing of application for the scholarship program of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is extended until May 31, 2013. Capiz GSIS Manager Glorietta Dublas disclosed that Vergara has granted the extension of the deadline ...
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07May2013LAOAG CITY, May 7 (PIA) -- A supporter of reelectionist Pagudpud Mayor Matilde Sales was killed while two others were injured after an exchange of gunshots between supporters of the incumbent mayor and her rival Marlon Sales in barangay Poblacion in that town past 2 pm today. Police said killed was Ryan Calventas, Matilde’s bodyguard and supporter, while injured was Roger Ragasa, a supporter of incumbent Vice Mayor Marlon Sales. Hit by a stray bullet was Remedios Asuncion, a bystander whose ...
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06May2013MANILA, May 6 (PIA) -- Children of agrarian reform beneficiaries can pursue a college degree in agriculture with financial support from the Land Bank of the Philippines under its Gawad Patnubay College Scholarship Program. Landbank recently partnered with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) for the implementation of a scholarship program for dependents of farmers and fisherfolk in agrarian reform communities who will major in the fields of agriculture and fisheries. Slated to comm...
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03May2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato May 3 (PIA) -- Some 5,510 scholarship slots are now open to young people in Soccsksargen Region who are interested on taking technical vocational education, an official here announced today. Zeus Ampuyas, regional director of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) – 12 told Philippine Information Agency 12 that the national government has allotted P29,344,000 for agency’s two flagship scholarship...
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02May2013DUMAGUETE CITY, May 2 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) is offering more scholarship slots for out-of-school youth (OSY) beneficiaries under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Cash for Training Project (C4TP) in Negros Oriental. Tesda Director General Joel Villanueva, in a press conference recently held here, said the P1.3 billion national project is in partnership with the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program of DSWD. It intends...
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29Apr2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, April 29 — A Filipino company that provides renewable energy solutions for all types of property owners said that solar energy is still the best option to solve the so-called Mindanao power crisis. Solar energy is a solution to the power crisis in the southern Philippines and in the pursuit of a lasting and ultimately cheaper power sources in Mindanao, said Engr. Winston Lorenzana Mendoza, chief executive officer of Mendoza Solar, LLC. Mendoza Solar, LLC is an energy com...
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26Apr2013DAVAO CITY, April 26 (PIA) -- The police in Davao Region has accounted a total of 172 gun ban violations from its January 13 implementation up to April 24, 2013. Speaking in the AFP-PNP Press Corps conference at the Task Force Davao Headquarters, Superintendent Marlon Pinote, supervisor of the Election Monitoring Action Center of the Police Regional Office XI said the campaign led to the confiscation of a total of 106 assorted firearms, 33 high powered weapons and 73 of low caliber. He said a ...
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26Apr2013MANILA, April 26 (PIA) -- The deadline for filing of application for the scholarship program of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is extended until May 31, 2013. In a statement, GSIS President and General Manager Robert G. Vergara said the extension of the deadline would give more time to qualified GSIS members to prepare the requirements in applying for the program. Dubbed GSIS College Scholarship Program (GSP), the scholarship grant seeks to help GSIS members, especially those w...
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25Apr2013DAVAO CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- A police officer assured that the peace and order in Mabini, Compostela Valley has gone back to normal after two armed men opened fire on the police station using a grenade launcher 7:35 pm Tuesday. Senior Superintendent Camilo Cascolan, director of the Compostela Valley Police Office said police and military observed an alert level three since Tuesday night by putting up checkpoints and conducting pursuit operation against the perpetrators who took advantage of t...
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25Apr2013ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, April 25 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology Rizal Provincial Science and Technology Center said 83 students qualified as DOST- Science Education Institute (SEI) scholars. The agency identified 60 RA 7687 scholars and 23 merit scholars from the province’s 13 municipalities and 1 component city which indicates an increase from the 2012 Rizal scholars with 61 RA 7687 and 10 merit scholars respectively. RA 7687 scholars or those under the the S&T Scholarship...
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22Apr2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, April 22 (PIA) -- Driven by a strong urge to help scholars improve their individual academic performances and personality, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) 12 gathered its educational program beneficiaries in a conference at EMR Center, Koronadal City on April 18 and 19. Seventy scholars from the entire region participated in the event: 12 from North Cotabato, 19 from Sarangani and General Santos, 5 from Sultan Kudarat, and 33 from South C...
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12Apr2013CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan, April 12 (PIA) -- Access to quality college education will become more affordable in Bataan after top officials in the province announced that the scholarship grant will increase from P6,000 to P10,000 annually. Under the Iskolar ng Bataan program, thousands of scholars from the 2nd District of the province will get an additional P4,000 in the coming months as a retroactive grant even if this school year has ended, said Governor Enrique “Tet” Garcia, Jr. It is cla...
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09Apr2013LUNGSOD NG LUCENA, Abril 9 (PIA) -- Nagbabala ang National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) sa pamamagitan ni Nelson Bautista, Regional Communications officer ng NGCP, south Luzon region sa mga taga Quezon at karatig lalawigan nito partikular yaong malapit sa transmission lines na maging maingat ngayong bakasyon. Sa panayam ng mga mamamahayag ng Quezon, sinabi ni Bautista na kapag bakasyon, maraming kabataan ang nagpapalipad ng saranggola malapit sa mga tower at transmission lines n...
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08Apr2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, April 8 (PIA) -- Words cannot express the feeling of OFW Evangeline Gloria when she found out that her daughter is one of the new scholars of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). Evangeline has been working in Dubai for almost 8 years and her hard work paid off when the news broke that her daughter ranked 21st among 105 passers of the Education for Development Scholarship Program of OWWA across the country. “Indeed, it is a very big help since ...
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05Apr2013ILOILO CITY, April 5 (PIA) -- Six students from Western Visayas have qualified for the Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). OWWA-6 officer-in-charge Reynold T. Pigar said among the 100 national qualifiers for the EDSP are three high school graduates from Iloilo, two from Aklan and one from Antique. The following are the qualifiers from Iloilo: Christine Angelica Leal Losañes and Romie Angelo Granja Azur, both from the Phil...
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04Apr2013LUNGSOD NG COTABATO, Abril 4 (PIA) -- Dalawang anak ng OFW mula sa Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ang mapalad na napabilang sa mga bagong iskolar ng Overseas Workers Welfare Administration o OWWA. Sina Ahmed Razlie M. Sahibul at si Harlene Joie J. Sawadjaan mula sa Sulu National High School sa Jolo, Sulu ay nakapasa sa ginawang qualifying exams para sa Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program (CMWSP) noong nakaraang Nobyembre 2012. Ang mga bagong iskolar ay maaaring kumuha ng s...
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03Apr2013CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, April 3 -- An additional 149 science and mathematics-inclined youth from Region 10 are among the incoming DOST scholars starting school year 2013-2014. They are to join the thousands of on-going Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholars who are to become future scientists and engineers. Of the 149 passers, 127 belong to the economically-disadvantaged families (Republic Act 7687) while other 22 qualified under the Merit category of the scholarship program. The ...
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02Apr2013NEGROS ORIENTAL, April 2 (PIA) – Forty-three (43) high school graduates in Negros Oriental passed the nationwide scholarship exams of the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) for June 2013 school year. DOST provincial director Gilbert Arbon announced that the 40 passers are qualified as scholars to science and technology under the RA 7687, a scholarship program for talented and deserving students belonging to economically disadvantaged families, while ...
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02Apr2013KALIBO, Aklan, April 2 (PIA) -- Thirty-five (35) graduating high school students are now assured of going to college next school year after having successfully passed the Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute (DOST- SEI) Scholarship for School Year 2013-2014. Most of the passers are from public high schools located in various municipalities of the province with only 3 coming from private schools here. Regional Science High School (RSHS) based in Old Buswang, K...
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30Mar2013DUMAGUETE CITY, March 30 (PIA) -- “Sometimes it’s a choice between to have lunch or have a book photocopied," says Churchel Avila of Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental one of the 19 students from the Pantawid Pamilya beneficiaries in the province that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) granted college level scholarship through its Students Grant-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGP-PA). "We do extra research time at the library because we cannot afford an internet...
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27Mar2013MANILA, March 27 (PIA) -- GSIS President and General Manager Robert Vergara has announced that the pension fund is accepting applications under its College Scholarship Program (GSP) in which 200 slots are available for Academic Year 2013-2014. The program provides an opportunity for state workers to send their children to colleges and universities that provide quality education. "We introduced amendments on the program to make it more equitable and responsive particularly to our low-income mem...
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26Mar2013ILOILO CITY, March 26 (PIA6) -- Sixteen college scholarship grants are available for children of members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for Academic Year 2013-2014 according to Manager Eleanor Gregorio of the Iloilo Branch. Of the sixteen, it is not yet known how many will be allocated to the different GSIS branches in Western Visayas but they are already accepting applications under the College Scholarship Program (GSP) for the next school year. The program provides an opp...
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22Mar2013DUMAGUETE CITY, March 22 (PIA) -- Out of the total 200 college scholarship slots available nationwide, the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has allotted 38 slots this year for Visayas applicants. The 200 scholarship slots are made available in National Capital Region (41 slots), Luzon (76), Visayas (38), and Mindanao (45) for school year 2013 to 2014. The program provides an opportunity for state workers to send their children to colleges and universities that provide quality educati...
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21Mar2013ILOILO CITY, March 21 (PIA) -- Seventy two slots are open for dependents of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in Western Visayas who want to avail of the scholarship program offered by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) for the school year 2013-2014. Rizza Joy Mapa, OWWA-6 Welfare Officer, said the OFW Dependent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) is an educational assistance offered to qualified dependents of OFWs who intend to pursue any four-year or five-year baccalaureate degree o...
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20Mar2013SURIGAO CITY, Mar. 20 (PIA) – Mokabat sa 52 ka mga eskolars nga nakapahimulos sa City Scholarship Program sa syudad ang gikatakdang mogradawar karong bulan sa Marso sa mga nagkalain kurso ug tulunghaan dinhi sa Surigao City. Sa 52 ka mga eskolars, 18 niini ang mogradwar sa mga nagkalain-laing mga kurso gikan sa Saint Paul University Surigao, 27 gikan sa Surigao State College and Technology, upat ang gikan sa Systems Technology Institute, ug tulo ang mogradwar gikan sa Surigao Education Center...
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17Mar2013CALOOCAN CITY, March 17 (PIA) -- Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives arrested two notorious pushers of a drug group operating in Caloocan City during the implementation of simultaneous search warrants on March 14, 2013. PDEA Director General Undersecretary Arturo G. Cacdac, Jr. said that the suspects are both members of the Bandiola Drug Group and residents of Phase 8B, Bagong Silang, Caloocan City. Agents of PDEA Regional Office-National Capital Region (PDEA RO-NCR), under D...
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16Mar2013SIQUIJOR, March 16 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) at Lazi National Agricultural School (LNAS) is now accepting applicants for the 2013 Training for work Scholarship Program (TWSP). In a statement, TESDA-LNAS said there are 265 scholarship slots that are open for interested Siquijorians to avail and enroll in various qualifications/courses offered at LNAS, Lazi, Siquijor. The program is offered to the youth, out of school youth, college drop outs, fres...
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15Mar2013ILOILO CITY, March 15 (PIA) -- Geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) in Western Visayas will be prioritized by the Department of Health- Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD 6) for its programs and projects this 2013. This is in line with the over-all goal of the Universal Health Care or Kalusugan Pangkalahatan (KP) which is a focused approach to health reform implementation, ensuring that all Filipinos especially the poor receive the benefits of health reform. Dr....
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09Mar2013MAKATI CITY, March 9 (PIA) -- At least 10 Filipino Muslim students from the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao were given full scholarship courtesy of the Universiti Utara Malaysia, an offical said Friday. According to Bureau of Muslim Economic Affairs Director Aleem Siddiqui Guiapal, the scholars will be provided with either a two-year post graduate or a four-year undergraduate course of their own choosing. Guiapal said the scholars, which underwent a very competitive selection process se...
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06Mar2013KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Mar. 6 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Region 12 (OWWA 12) inked a Memorandum of Agreement with two schools in Midsayap, North Cotabato to intensify its education programs for OFW dependents. The signing was led by OWWA-12 Dir. Abdulghani Umag together with Fr. Rogelio Tabuada, OMI, president of the Notre Dame of Midsayap College (NDMC) and Westre Santos, vice president of I-Link College of Science and Technology. The agreement strengthen...
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05Mar2013SAN JOSE, Antique, March 5 (PIA) -- The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) in Antique continues to support 41 scholars in their college education in accredited government schools. Provincial Head Jeffrey Gabucay of 4Ps said the scholars are children of 4Ps beneficiaries in the seven towns of the province who passed the criteria set by the program. The seven towns, namely Bugasong, San Remigio, Laua-an, Caluya, Culasi, Patnongon and Hamtic have six scholars each, however, one student fr...
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01Mar2013CEBU CITY, March 1 (PIA) -- Applications are now open for the 2014 Australia Awards, a bilateral scholarship program of the Australian government. The Australia Awards scholarship is open to Filipinos from the public and private sectors for post-graduate studies (Masters and PhD). Applications are open from Feb. 1 to April 30, 2013. Programs of study available under the scholarship cover 12 areas, including Basic Education, Climate Change Adaptation, Foreign Relations, Disaster Risk Reducti...
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28Feb2013BOHOL, Feb 28 (PIA) -- Aside from marvelous white beaches, old churches and ancestral houses, there are a-thousand-and-one other reasons to visit Bohol. Bohol now has a new adventure theme park that offers captivating attractions for everyone. It is called Zoocolate Thrills! The theme park is located in Barangay Gotozon in Loboc, Bohol operated by Zoomanity Group under the Yupangco Group of Companies. Zoomanity Group operates other parks like the amazing Zoobic Safari in Subic Bay; Zoocob...
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12Feb2013DUMAGUETE CITY, Feb. 12 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) announced that 91 elementary pupil-examinees in Central Visayas qualify for the scholarships in the Philippine Science High School (PSHS-DOST). DOST Negros Oriental assistant provincial director Roslyn Tambago said of the 91 passers, 11 students from Negros Oriental are qualified to be admitted as freshmen in the PSHS-DOST scholars for school year 2013-2014. The pupils now will be accepted at the Philippine Scie...
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05Feb2013ILIGAN CITY, Feb. 5 -- Barangay Health Workers (BHW) and Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) in the city will soon enjoy an increase in their honorarium. Mayor Lawrence Ll. Cruz announced yesterday that an increase of P1,000 will be given to BHW and BNS starting January this year. In his message during the flag raising program at the City Hall, Monday morning, from P3,000 pesos every month, these health workers will now receive P4,000. This followed after the Iligan City Council gave him auth...
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01Feb2013ILOILO CITY, Feb. 1 (PIA) -- Ten scholarship slots are available for children of small coconut farmers,tenants,farmer workers residing in Panay Island (Iloilo, Antique, Guimaras, and Aklan) who are willing to enroll at the Western Visayas College of Science and Technology (WVCST), Main Campus, Iloilo City. In a PIA interview, WVCST Main Campus Student Affairs Dean Dr. Susan Marie Dela Cruz said the scholarship qualification criteria include: must be a child of a small coconut farmer or coconu...
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29Jan2013KALIBO, Aklan, Jan 29 (PIA6) -- Seven graduating elementary pupils here successfully passed this year’s National Competitive Examination of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS) System given on September 29, 2012 at the Northwestern Visayan Colleges (NVC). Of the passers, four came from Aklan Learning Center (ALC) – Lady Yzabelle T. Biray, Rya Zenilde T. Cawaling, Angelica Shalene T. Estera and Allyzza T. Mationg, while Samantha Lauren E. Alvarez was the lone passer from Wadeford Scho...
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18Jan2013MANILA, Jan. 18 (PIA) -- The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) recently honored a Filipino member of the sixth Philippine Contingent to Golan Heights. Technical Sergeant Herman Galiza received the Peacekeeper Month Award from UNDOF chief Major General Iqbal Singh Singha in a simple ceremony held at the UNDOF Headquarters, Camp Fauoar, Syria. According to Commanding Officer of the Philippine Contingent Lieutenant Colonel Nolie Anquillano, Galiza received said award for his e...
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17Jan2013BALANGA CITY, Bataan, Jan 17 (PIA) -- The city government of Balanga revealed that its newly founded University Town of the Peninsula Foundation, Inc. earned P10 million from private donors which will be used to increase the number of scholars in the city. Fifty new scholars every year will be added to the current 2,000 beneficiaries from Balanga City in the Iskolar ng Bataan program, said Mayor Jose Enrique Garcia III. “As support of the private sector to our vision, they have built a found...
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17Jan2013CORTES, Bohol, Jan. 17 (PIA) -- Usa ka Bol-anon ang apil sa kawaloan og tulo (83) ka mga kandidato ang manggi-ilog sa 12 ka mga pwesto sa pagkasenador sa piniliay sa Mayo 13, 2013. Kini base sa datus nga makit-an sa Commission on Elections Website www.comelec.gov.ph. Ang Bol-anon nga si Severo Maluenda Jr., natawo sa Loon ug kasamtangang nanimuyo sa Nahawan Clarin, mipasa sa iyang Certificate of Candidacy isip independente niadtong Oktubre 5 sa may alas 3:12 sa palis. Si Maluenda, kinsa mia...
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10Jan2013CEBU CITY, Jan. 10 (PIA) -- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) urges public and private schools, universities and colleges in Central Visayas to establish a plant nursery facility of native tree species within their respective campuses in a move to boost the “greening” campaign. DENR 7 regional executive director Dr. Isabelo Montejo encourages school institutions to join in the national greening program (NGP) as key area in the Philippine Development Plan (PDP). ...
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09Jan2013DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 9 (PIA) -- The Land Transportation Office (LTO) stepped up arresting helmet law violators as it apprehended nine government vehicles and 99 motorcycles in a five-day campaign in Negros Oriental since the implementation of the National Helmet Law on January 3. In a provincial peace and order council meeting recently, Land Transportation Office (LTO) district chief Roland Ramos said the agency is strictly enforcing the law with the 23 deputized Philippine National Police p...
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02Jan2013BUTUAN CITY, Jan. 2 (PIA) – The Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is now accepting applications for Fulbright scholarship grants for school year 2014-2015. This was learned from the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-Caraga Regional Office through its website at www.chedcaraga.com. In a letter addressed to CHED-Caraga Regional Director Dr. Isabela Mahler, PAEF Executive Director Esmeralda Cunanan said the granting of scholarship will be conducted through competition where...
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28Dec2012QUEZON CITY, Dec. 28 (PIA) -- More disaster risk reduction (DRR) workshops are being planned this coming year to reach not only cities but also provinces and barangays for a more disaster resilient Philippines, a statement from Senator Loren Legarda said. Legarda, environmental legislator and United Nation’s (UN) Regional Champion for disaster risk reduction (DRR ) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) for Asia – Pacific said she aims to conduct more DRR workshops in 2013 to reach not only ci...
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20Dec2012DASMARIÑAS CITY, Cavite, Dec. 20 (PIA) -- The municipality of Tanza was the chosen area for a proposed $180-million solar power plant project to be put up in Cavite because of its good climate, sunlight, and surroundings. This project was confirmed in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by Cavite Governor Jonvic Remulla and Korean executives of LG CNS Co., Ltd., a South Korea business corporation at a golf and country club here recently. This project was approved by concerned sectors...
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19Dec2012CEBU CITY, Dec 19 (PIA) -- Overpricing of Noche Buena products will be dealt with accordingly, warned the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as it advised buyers to carefully check labels of Christmas food products. DTI recently released a Holiday Supplement dated Dec. 4, 2012 bearing suggested retail prices of popular food products served during the traditional Noche Buena. These include prices of hams and ingredients for pastas and salads. For hams, one kilo of all types of hams ranged...
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12Dec2012BACOLOD CITY, Dec. 12 (PIA) -- Public school teachers in the city have more reasons to celebrate this yuletide season as P500 will be added to their emergency cost of living allowance(Ecola) in January. Currently, the teachers receive a P1,500 Ecola monthly. Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia made the announcement to some 2,500 public elementary and high school teachers at the Bacolod City Government Center to celebrate the 61st Teachers’ Day. "Starting 2013, we will again increase your E...
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05Dec2012DAVAO CITY, Dec. 5 -- The Maritime Industry Authority Regional Office XI (MARINA XI) is appealing to all motorboat and fishing boat operators in Mati City and in nearby localities to provide assistance in carrying needed goods and supplies to isolated towns in Davao Oriental. This as the towns of Cateel, Baganga and Boston has been rendered inaccessible due to roads and bridges destroyed by typhoon Pablo which struck the province last December 4. The MARINA XI appeal comes in the wake of Dep...
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03Dec2012TAGBILARAN CITY, Dec. 3 (PIA) -- The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) clarified that the P12 port access fee that was collected beginning December 1 is the trike drivers' responsibility and not the passengers. PPA manager Manuel Boholano said "we are only implementing PPA administrative order 04-2009 to regulate port access." The December 1 implementation has stirred concern among the riding public and the tricycle drivers who may have to pay an additional P12.00 for every entry at the po...
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27Nov2012SURIGAO CITY, Nob. 27 (PIA) -- Gimando ni Pangulong Benigno S. Aquino III ang pagmugna og special teams aron maoy mohimog imbestigasyon kalabot na sa mga human rights abuses nga nahimo sa gobyerno ug non-state forces ug aron maseguro ang pokus nga imbestigayon ug dali nga solusyon sa tanang mga wala pa masulbad ug bag-ong mga kaso, matud ni Executive Secretary Paquito N. Ochoa Jr. kagahapon. Sumala pa ni Ochoa nga ang special teams maoy maglangkob sa inter-agency committee (IAC), nga gimugna sa...
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23Nov2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Nov. 23 (PIA) --- More skilled workers and technical vocational education and training (TVET) trainers-assessors in Region 10 are expected to benefit from the National TVET Competency Assessment and Certification (NatCAC) Program. According to the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA), the NatCAC program which is supposed to end on October 26, 2012 is extended until December 15, 2012. NATCAC is a simultaneous nationwide conduct of competency assessme...
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21Nov2012BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, Nov 21 (PIA) -- Agbalin nga katulungan dagiti mangiwaywayat ti linteg nga mangibawbawal ti panagsigarilyo kadagiti matatao nga lugar ditoy Nueva Vizcaya dagiti kameng ti media. Sigun kenni Virginia Galapon, Tobacco Control coordinator ti Nueva Vizcaya, madaman iti inda panangaramid kadagiti Identification Cards wenno ID nga usaren dagiti media tapno agbalin dagitoy nga katulungan ti Philippine National Police (PNP) nga mangpasardeng iti panagsigarilyo kadagiti matao ...
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17Nov2012NAVAL, Biliran, November 17 (PIA) – The local government unit (LGU) of Naval and its three private partners turned over a project aimed at providing water to upland communities in the country through its Agos Ram Pump Project, Philippines. The LGU-Naval, Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc. (CCFI), Earth Day Network Philippines, Inc. (EDNPI) and the Alternative Indigenous Development Foundation, Inc. (AIDFI) turned over the hydraulic ram pump water system project to the residents of the Gob...
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17Nov2012NAVAL, Biliran, Nov. 16 (PIA) -- The project officer of the Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, Inc. (CCFI) said the company envisioned to build 100 ram pump water system projects in the country. Victor Manlapaz, CCFI project officer, said the plan to build 100 ram pump water system project in the country is in line with the 100th anniversary of the company next year. “The installation of these water system projects is one way of giving back to the community the water being utilized by the c...
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16Nov2012OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, Nov. 16 (PIA) -- A delegation of 20 members was sent by the local government of Ozamiz to attend the 2nd National Conference of Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS) on Nov. 15-16, this year in Davao City. The delegation is composed of some of the BNS and officers of the Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholars in the city, Mayor Nova Princess Parojinog- Echavez said. The conference aims to update the BNS with the recent developments of the Nutrition Program fo...
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16Nov2012MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Nov. 16 (PIA) --- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) has called on all out-of-school youth and unemployed adults in the province to avail of its scholarship programs. A total of 2,594 scholarship vouchers for the Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) and the Private Education Student Fund Assistance (PESFA) program are still up for grab this year said Tarhata S. Mapandi, Tesda provincial director. She said the 1,619 slots will b...
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15Nov2012MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur, Nov. 15 (PIA) -- A training fund of P11.70 million under the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) stimulus package has been allotted for the province to finance the technical-vocational education and training of 1,619 beneficiaries. Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Provincial Director Tarhata S. Mapandi said it has started implementing the scholarship training programs which is part of the Transition Investment Support Plan (TISP)...
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14Nov2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Nov. 14 -- About 2,000 high school graduating students from Region 10 are to take the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) college scholarship examination scheduled on Sunday, November 18. In Region 10, the testing centers are as follows: Central Mindanao University-Education Hall, Musuan, for Bukidnon; Misamis Occidental National High School-Main Building, Oroquieta City, for Misamis Occidental; Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology-College of ...
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14Nov2012MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, Nov 14 (PIA) -- Realizing the urgent need for collaborative effort to curb malnutrition, the provincial government of Bukidnon, in coordination with the National Nutrition Council Region 10, spearheaded the 2012 Barangay Nutrition Scholars Congress recently held in Kaamulan Open Theater, Malaybalay City. Anchored on the theme “Pagkain ng gulay ugaliin, araw-araw itong ihain,” the activity focused on the intensification of the Garden, Go, Grow and Glow (G4) program...
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12Nov2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Nov 12 (PIA)- With barely a week before the Scholarship Qualifying Examinations, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration- Region 12 is conducting a free review classes at its regional office for 150 hopeful OFW dependents. Programs and Services Division Officer-in-Charge Marilou M. Sumalinog said examinees from North Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, General Santos City and Saranggani already had their review sessions last November 10 and 11, while examinees from Sou...
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09Nov2012QUEZON CITY, Nov. 9 (PIA) -- The National Nutrition Council (NNC) will give due recognition today to 2011 top performers in nutrition program implementation. Around 22 local governments and Barangay Nutrition Scholars who have performed exemplary in nutrition program management and delivery of nutrition services will receive their award from President Benigno S. Aquino III during today’s’ 2012 National Nutrition Awarding Ceremony at the Reception Hall in Philippine International Convention ...
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08Nov2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Nov 8 (PIA) -- Some 195 Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and dependents in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao will take the qualifying examinations of the OWWA Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) and the Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program (CMWSP) on November 18. The province of Maguindanao has the highest number of applicants with 141 for the EDSP and 17 for CMWSP, followed by Sulu with 20 for EDSP and 3 for CMWSP. Tawi-Ta...
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06Nov2012LUCENA CITY, Quezon, Nov 6 (PIA) -- SM City Lucena through SM Foundation Inc. is now accepting applicants for their college scholarship program for school year 2013-2014. The scholarship program is open to poor but deserving students or high school graduates who are willing to take college courses. She added that Quezon has five slots for the program said Lilibeth Azores, SM public relations manager. Interested applicants must fill out the SM college scholarship application form and attach a c...
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19Oct2012OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Oct 19 (PIA) -- The deadline for submission of applications to this year’s Annual Nationwide Search for Young Arts Scholars (Ansyas) was set on October 31. Applicants must be Filipino citizens, who have the outstanding ability in ballet or folk dance, instrument or voice music, creative writing, theater and visual arts, Schools Division Superintendent (SDS) Jonathan S. Dela Peňa of the Misamis Occidental Schools Division (MOSD) said. Graduating pupil in G...
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05Oct2012QUEZON CITY, Oct 5 (PIA) -- The Quezon City (QC) government, through QC Mayor Herbert Bautista, has signed into law a measure that will enable the less fortunate but deserving city residents to take up postgraduate courses. In a statement, the Quezon City government said Ordinance No. SP-2165, s-2012 seeks to establish a postgraduate scholarship program that will offer a free postgraduate study to deserving Quezon City students who cannot afford to enroll for higher courses. The scholarship pr...
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03Oct2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Oct 3 (PIA) -- Qualified graduating high school students in Northern Mindanao who are interested in science and technology careers have until October 5, Friday, to submit their application for scholarship. Alfonso Alamban, Department of Science and Technology (DOST)-10 director, said about 4,000 slots nationwide every year are being awarded to those who pass the examination for the undergraduate scholarships, which for this year is scheduled on November 18. The undergradua...
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02Oct2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Oct 2 (PIA) -- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) Secretary Joel Villanueva on Wednesday keynoted two mass graduation rites of over 4,000 technical-vocational (tech-voc) scholars in Nueva Ecija and Pampanga. In his speech at the Nueva Ecija ceremony, Villanueva said, “Tesda is the college of jobs. More than 60 percent of our graduates across the archipelago land careers here and abroad. The remaining 40 percent are being catered by our...
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02Oct2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Oct 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) encourages graduating high school students in Central Luzon who wish to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the fields of science, mathematics, and engineering to take the 2013 undergraduate scholarship exam of the Science Education Institute (SEI), scheduled November 18. The SEI undergraduate scholarship exam is an aptitude test designed to measure the scientific ability, quantitative ability, mechanical...
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25Sep2012CAGAYAN, Sept 25 (PIA) -- Some 566 students have received their scholarship grants from the provincial government of Cagayan, through Governor Alvaro Antonio, in an awarding ceremony held at the Kammaranan Hall, Tuguegarao City. Reizel Gelacio, coordinator of the Bin-I Ti Agtutubo (BTA) scholarship program of the provincial government, said the program is one of the priorities of the government as part of Antonio’s 10-point agenda. The students were selected based on the result of the qualif...
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22Sep2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Sept 22 (PIA) -- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) and Coca-Cola Philippines will team up with several local government units and women's organizations in Northern and Central Luzon in training over 10,000 females to be productive sari-sari (convenience store) owners. Tesda and Coke recently signed a memorandum of agreement with several stakeholders to partner in the Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (S3TAR) project. In ...
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22Sep2012MANILA, Sept 22 (PIA) -- Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim led the unveiling of the historical marker “Kalye Mendiola” Thursday, September 20, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the proclamation of Martial Law. In a statement, Lim together with Human Rights Advocate lawyer Rene Saguisag, National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) board member Dr. Ferdinand Llanes, and Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocate chairperson Max de Mesa unveiled the marker along Mendiola in ...
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19Sep2012PARAÑAQUE CITY, Sept 19 (PIA) -- Another chance awaits jobseekers to work in a world-class hotel, resort and gaming complex at the PAGCOR Entertainment City. In a statement, the Solaire Manila-Bloomberry Resorts Corp. in partnership with the Parañaque City Government will again hold a job fair on September 21 and 22, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SM City-Sucat Building B Event Center in Brgy. San Dionisio, Parañaque City. This is to fill its vacant positions in preparation for its opening ...
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18Sep2012NABUNTURAN, Compostela Valley Province, Sept 18 (PIA) -- Ten rice farmers’ organizations have been tapped to receive solar dryers from the Department of Agriculture. These organizations, which were chosen by Governor Arturo T. Uy, are Lateral B and C Farmers’ Irrigators Association, Lagab Farmers’ Irrigators Association, Lateral E Bagongon Irrigators Association, Curvada Lagab Farmers’ Irrigators’ Association, Lateral B East Farmers’ Irrigators Association, San Jose-Lagab-Aurora La...
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15Sep2012KAYAPA, Nueva Vizcaya, Sept 15 (PIA) -- At least 30 indigent youths from the 30 barangays here are set to receive scholarship grants from the local government unit as part of its program to help poor but deserving students in their college education. Mayor John Balasya said the Scholarship Financial Assistance Program (SFAP), which was embodied in a municipal ordinance and already approved by the provincial board, is given to indigent members of indigenous people whose families are classified a...
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12Sep2012PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan, Sept 12 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda), Coca-Cola Philippines and the city government forged a partnership last Monday aimed at helping 1,000 sari-sari store owners become better entrepreneurs. The signing of the joint memorandum of agreement (MOA) signaled the start of the implementation of the Sari-Sari Store Training and Access to Resources (S3TAR) Program in the city with the members of the Charity Women’s Foundat...
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11Sep2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Sept. 11 (PIA) --- The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) through its Workers Organizational Development Program (WODP) scholarship grant has paved way for the fulfillment of Bea Jane S. Reponte’s dream of becoming a registered nurse. Bea Jane became a WODP scholar beneficiary when her father, Diosdado T. Reponte, bagged this scholarship prize during the 2007 Search for Most Outstanding Employee in Region 10 sponsored by the Regional Tripartite Industrial Peace Cou...
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08Sep2012LAOAG CITY, Sept 8 (PIA) -- Indigent students from Laoag City in Ilocos Norte can continue with their education through a scholarship program of its local chief executive and private citizens. The "Iskolar ni MVF" scholarship program started in school year 2004-2005, where Mayor Michael V. Farinas, Association of Barangay Captains (ABC) President Chevylle Farinas, with the help of private donors, shoulder the education expenses of students. This year, 5,861 students were sent to 33 elementary ...
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06Sep2012ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, Sept 6 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) will be open for college scholarship applications through the DOST-Rizal Provincial Science and Technology Center until October 5. DOST-SEI will award Bachelor of Science degree scholarships to graduating fourth year high school students nationwide, who will pursue priority field studies in science, mathematics, and engineering in accredited universities. According to DOST-Riz...
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05Sep2012OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Sept. 5 (PIA) – Mikabat sa kapin upat ka libo ug lima ka gatus (4,567) ka mga kwalipikadong estudyante sa kolehiyo sa Amihanang Mindanao ang nakabenepisyo sa scholarship nga gihatag sa Commission on Higher Education (CHED), region 10, sa tuig-tingtungha (school-year) 2011-2012. Niini nga gidaghanon, duloan sa usa ka libo ug lima ka gatus (1,444) o duolan tryanta e dos porsento (31.61%) ang gipa-ubos sa CHED-Traditional Scholarship Grants (TSG), samtang kap...
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04Sep2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, September 4 -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) now accepts application for 2013 Undergraduate Science Scholarship. About 4,000 scholarship slots are to be awarded nationwide. Qualified to apply are natural-born Filipino citizens who belong to the upper five percent (5%) of the regular high school graduating class or a member of the graduating class of any DOST-identified or DepEd-recognized science high school, a resident of the municipality/district for ...
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03Sep2012BATANGAS CITY, Sept 3 (PIA) -- A total of 3,135 scholars of the city government have received their allowances for the 1st semester. Out of the total number, 1,680 are high school students while 1,455 are in college. Under the Eddie B. Dimacuha (EDB) scholarship program, each college scholar receives a scholarship grant of P8,000 per semester in which the P5,000 is directly paid to the schools for tuition fees. The high school student scholars get P3,000 each. During the distribution, Mayor ...
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02Sep2012OROQUIETA CITY, Misamis Occidental, Sept. 1 (PIA) -- A total of 4,567 college scholarships were granted to qualified beneficiaries in Northern Mindanao through the Commission on Higher Education (CHED), region 10, for school-year 2011-2012. Of this figure, 1,444 or 31.61 percent were granted under the CHED Traditional Scholarship Grants (TSG) while 3,123 or 68.38 percent were granted under the Special Study Grant Program for Congressional Districts (SSGP-CD). In turn, 447 or 30.95 percent of t...
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31Aug2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, Aug 31 (PIA) -- Dependents of active Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) are encouraged to avail of the Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) and the Congressional Migrant Workers Scholarship Program (CMWSP) for school year 2013-2014. Dr. Avelina Manganip, Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Kalinga chief, said, interested applicants in the province are advised to apply at the DOLE Kalinga office not later than September 19. The EDSP are for those interes...
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25Aug2012LUNGSOD NG KORONADAL, Agosto 25 (PIA) --Inihayag kahapon, Biyernes ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST) 12 ang pagbubukas ng mga scholarship na maaring aplayan ng mga papasok sa kolehiyo sa School Year 2013-2014. Partikular na hinihikayat ni DOST 12 Regional Director Zenaida Hadji Raof-Laidan, ang mga mag-aaral sa fourth year na napapapabilang sa top five percent ng graduating class at nagnanais kumuha ng kurso sa sciences, mathematics at engineering. Ang mga s...
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24Aug2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Aug 24 (PIA) -- The Soccsksargen Region office of the Department of Science and Technology today announced the opening of scholarships available to incoming freshmen students in school year 2013 – 2014. Dr. Zenaida Hadji-Raof-Laidan, DOST 12 regional director, said the scholarships will be awarded to students who would like to pursue bachelor’s degree in priority courses in sciences, engineering, and mathematics. Deadline for submissio...
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23Aug2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Aug 23 (PIA) -- Umabot sa 107 na kabataan sa South Cotabato ang inaasahang makikinabang sa technical vocational training na inihahanda ng pamahalaang panlalawigan at ng Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda). Kaninang umaga inihayag ni South Cotabato Gov. Arthur Y. Pingoy Jr. na kabilang dito ang 15 slots para sa bulldozer operator heavy equipment operator NC II , 15 sa wheel loader heavy equipment operator NC ...
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16Aug2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Aug 16 (PIA) --The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) through the Science Education Institute (SEI) is once again looking for a new set of scholars for 2013. Under RA 7687 scholarship program, DOST-SEI will award Bachelor of Science degree scholarships to poor but deserving natural-born Filipino students to pursue priority fields of study in science, mathematics and engineering. The department will also award scholarships to students with high aptitude in science and m...
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15Aug2012ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Aug. 15 (PIA6) – Graduating high school students will now have the opportunity to avail themselves of a government scholarship program. Provincial head Gerbe Dellava of the Department of Science and Technology in Capiz disclosed that the DOST is now giving the chance to all graduating high school students under the DOST’s Undergraduate Scholarship program. Dellava said that the scholarship grant is open to those who intend to pursue science and technology courses by the ...
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10Aug2012DAVAO CITY, Aug. 10 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is accepting applications for its Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) for school year 2013-2014. Ma. Elvira Ador, OWWA-XI regional director, said this scholarship grant is offered to qualified dependents of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), who are members of OWWA. Eligible applicants must meet the following requirements: must be a child of a married OWWA member or brother/sister of an unmarried O...
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03Aug2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, Aug 3 (PIA) -– The Department of Science and Technology, through Science Education Institute, announced that their office is now accepting applications for the Junior Level Science Scholarships (JLSS). DOST-SEI offers two JLSS program: RA7687, which is open to poor but talented students, and the Merit scholarship. Qualifiers will be selected based on their performance in the 2012 JLSS scholarship examination on September 22. Any regular third year college student of AY 2...
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02Aug2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Aug 2 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Negros Oriental is now accepting applicants for this year’s Junior Level Science Scholarships (JLSS). All regular third year college students enrolled in the identified Science & Technology (S&T) courses in Silliman University and Negros Oriental State University for the school years 2012-2013 are urged to apply for the scholarship. Applicant must have a general weighted average of 83 percent and has no faili...
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27Jul2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, July 27 (PIA) -- The National Commission on Disability Affairs (NCDA), through the persons with disability (PWD) association here, announced the intercultural full scholarship program to the US for high school students and Muslims. Amalia Decena, president of the PWD women association in Cagayan, said the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (KL-YES) program aims to build bridges of understanding and mutual respect between the US and countries around the world. “It is a f...
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26Jul2012PARAÑAQUE CITY, July 26 (PIA) -- The Parañaque City government will hold a two-day job fair in time for the opening of the new Solaire Manila, a resort and gaming complex located at the PAGCOR Entertainment City in Parañaque. Parañaque City Mayor Jun Bernabe said the city government is continuously exerting efforts to improve the life of citizens. “Apart from providing free training on priority skills needed in the different industries, it (job fair) organizes residents and helps them ...
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26Jul2012DAVAO CITY, July 26 -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholar announces it is offering scholarships for junior college students. The scholarship is open to 3rd year college students who are pursuing S&T fields of study in basic sciences, engineering and other applied sciences and science teaching. There are two scholarship programs being offered: one is RA 7687, otherwise known as the S&T Scholarship Act of 1994, which is awarded to talented and deserving students coming fr...
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24Jul2012EDITED: CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, July 24 (PIA) -- The Student Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGPPA) of Pantawid Pamilya will have an additional 84 scholars in Northern Mindana. At present, there are 264 college education scholars, said Cherrylou Acobo, Pantawid Pamilya coordination and partnership development officer. The region targets to accommodate 348 scholars. “So far, we only hit 76 percent of the target that is why we have to fill up the remaining 24 percent of the slots ...
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23Jul2012CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, July 23 (PIA) -- One hundred forty-four beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4P) in Quezon and Rizal will receive college scholarships this school year through the Students Grants-In-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGP-PA). The scholarship grant is for 4Ps households with members who are in college in leading state universities and colleges (SUCs) nationwide - Cavite State University (CSU) in the case of Region 4A. With the SGP-PA, selected 4Ps ...
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18Jul2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, July 18 (PIA) -- The city government has started to use solar power technology as one of the measures towards reduction of monthly power expenses and for a cleaner environment. Under this project, 38 solar panels were installed around the city hall perimeter to energize street lights, which replaced the previously installed conventional power system supplied by the Kalinga Apayao Electric Cooperative (KAELCO). Eduard Barcellano of the City Engineering Office said the...
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18Jul2012ILIGAN CITY, July 18 -- Two Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP)-funded projects were started on July 1 this year as part of the 76th Araw ng Kolambugan celebration. These were the groundbreaking ceremony of the 7.2-km farm-to-market road from Barangay Kulasihan to Barangay Palao in Kolambugan, Lanao del Norte and the launching of the Kolambugan agrarian reform beneficiaries (ARB) products with government officials in attendance. Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR)-10 Regional Director...
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09Jul2012MANILA, Hulyo 9 (PIA) –- Ang The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) magapadayon sa pagpaninguha nga makakuha sang mga foreign study grants nga makadugang sang kina-adman sa pagpadalagan sang opisina kag sa teknikal nga mga aspeto sang mga empleyado sa gobyerno. Si Secretary Joel Villanueva, TESDA Director General, nagpahayag nga halin Enero tubtub Mayo sa sini nga tuig, ang Pilipinas nakabaton sang 176 ka mga programa nga ginhatag sang nakalain lain nga mga pungsod...
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09Jul2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, July 9 (PIA) -- Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Regional Director Antonio Molano Jr. announced on Friday that they have already demolished 40 houses and illegal structures along the high water channel of the Pampanga River in the town of Macabebe. Molano said that they are still set to dismantle more than 698 houses – 658 in Masantol and 40 in Macabebe. He said this move is in line with the order of the Supreme Court to concerned government agen...
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06Jul2012TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite, July 6 (PIA) -- Students who qualified for the scholar program of the provincial government can get their scholarship assistance amounting P5,000 via Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) transactions. More than 1,000 students attended and filled out ATM forms during an event held at the provincial gymnasium. Governor Jonvic Remulla, together with Alvin Mojica, chairman of the Provincial Scholarship Program, were present during the said occasion. In his message to student...
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05Jul2012NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, July 5 (PIA) -- A total of 1,976 college students and 52 masters’ degree scholars in the sixth district of Negros Occidental are beneficiaries of the Congressional Educational Assistance Program (CEAP). Beneficiaries of the assistance were the Bantayan National High School, Tampalon NHS, Tabugon NHS in Kabankalan City, Gil Montilla National High School-Manlucahoc Extension, Barasbarasan Elementary School and Dungga Elementary School in Sipalay City. School supplies like ...
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30Jun2012KALIBO, Aklan, June 30 (PIA) -- The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has given scholarships to 65 Aklanon students who are children of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries. The 4Ps scholars who have just graduated this year from high school, according to Cristina Tercena, Provincial Operations Officer, are from 11 municipalities of the province. CHED gave six slots of scholarship per municipality, totaling 66 in all. However, one scholar was unable to take the entrance ...
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29Jun2012BUTUAN CITY, June 29 (PIA) -- Caraga once again becomes a recipient of an international grant as the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) finalizes a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Spanish government and three local government units (LGUs) here this month to complement the implementation of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. Now on its seventh and final year of implementing the community-driven development (CDD) project Poder, Agencia Espanola Cooperacion Internacional ...
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21Jun2012ROXAS CITY, Capiz, June 21 (PIA) -- More low-income government workers are given the chance to have their children finish college education through a scholarship grant. Branch head Glorietta Dublas of the Government Service Insurance System in Capiz said they are now looking for three scholarship grantees for the GSIS enhanced College Scholarship Program. Dublas said the program is part of the agency’s 75th anniversary celebration this year that is aimed to ensure GSIS low-income members wou...
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21Jun2012DAVAO CITY, June 21 -- Don Antonio O. Floirendo, Sr. Foundation continues to strengthen its scholarship program as it welcomes 70 new scholars for the school year 2012-2013. On its 11th year of providing scholarship grants to dependents of employees of the ANFLOCOR Group of Companies, the Floirendo Foundation now has a total number of 169 scholars under its program. “The Floirendo Foundation is very happy that the number of scholars is growing year on year,” said Russell U. Barrizo, Prog...
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21Jun2012MANILA, June 21 (PIA) -- In a press release, GSIS President and General Manager Robert G. Vergara invites low-income government workers to nominate their children to the enhanced college scholarship program of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) where 200 slots are available for school year 2012-2013. The deadline for the filing of application is on June 30. “As part of celebrating our 75th anniversary this year, the current Board of Trustees revised the scholarship program to ens...
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21Jun2012ILOILO City, June 21 (PIA) -- Government workers may nominate their children for the enhanced College Scholarship Program (CSP) of the Government Service Insurance Service (GSIS). Deadline for the application is set on June 30, GSIS Iloilo Branch Manager Eleanor D. Gregorio said 200 slots are available for the enhanced CSP nationwide for this school year, 14 of which are intended for Region 6. The GSIS has revised its scholarship program to ensure that low-income members will be given the op...
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20Jun2012KALIBO, AKLAN, June 20 (PIA) -- Forty Aklanons trained by the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) under its "Spesyalista" Technopreneurship Program will receive on June 22 the tools they can use in their respective livelihood ventures, increasing their chances of earning more income. The Spesyalista Technopreneurship program, according to TESDA-Aklan, is funded by the Office of the President under the Training for Work Scholarship Program. The 40 Aklanons are from the...
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20Jun2012OZAMIZ CITY, Misamis Occidental, June 20 (PIA) – Some 40,000 new scholarship slots nationwide have been offered for incoming Grade 7 this school year, under an honors program for top students. Called the Open High School (OHS) program, the scholarships slots have been offered in private schools participating in the Education Service Contracting (ESC) scheme. This is in the line with DepEd’s thrust of making basic education open and accessible to all learners, Secretary Armin Luistro of the...
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17Jun2012DUMAGUETE CITY, June 17 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has urged employees anew to avail of its College Scholarship Program where 200 slots are available this school year. Regional Manager Vilma Fuentes of GSIS Bacolod said the deadline for filing of application is on June 30. The employees with the lowest salary grades would nominate their children to the enhanced scholarship grant. In a press release, GSIS President and General Manager Robert Vergara said, “As pa...
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16Jun2012DAVAO CITY, June 16 (PIA) -- The Civil Service Commission (CSC) is now accepting applicants for the modified Local Scholarship Program (Master’s Degree Course) for School Year 2013-2014. Open to all government employees, interested applicant must be a Bachelor’s Degree holder, occupies a second level position, and holds a permanent position with at least two years of continuous service. An applicant should also have at least Very Satisfactory performance for the last two rating periods...
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16Jun2012BORONGAN CITY, Eastern Samar, June 16 (PIA) -- Government Services Insurance Service (GSIS) President and General Manager Robert G. Vergara is inviting low-income government workers to nominate their children to the Enhanced College Scholarship Program until June 30. A notice sent to PIA disclosed that about 200 slots are now available for School Year 2012-2013 as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of GSIS. The information added that the Board of Trustees has recently revised the scholars...
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15Jun2012ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, June 15 (PIA) -- The city government of Antipolo recently conducted a hands-on-training of Operation Timbang (OPT) Plus Database Management System and Tools for 65 barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) and barangay encoders held at San Jose National High School. This was through the City Health Office–Nutrition Services in coordination with the National Nutrition Council (NNC). The new data management program will provide barangay health workers speed and accuracy in compu...
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15Jun2012GEN. TRIAS, Cavite, June 15 (PIA) -- Four former child laborers were awarded scholarship grants by the San Miguel Foundation, Inc. recently, highlighting the province’s observance of World Day Against Child Labor (WDACL) with the theme “Human rights and social justice… let’s end child labor.” The qualified former child laborers for the San Miguel Community Scholarship Program for school year 2012-2013 will take courses in Associate in Computer Technology (ACT), Bachelor of Science in...
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15Jun2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, June 14 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is reminding members that the deadline for the filing of application for the enhanced GSIS Scholarship Program (GSP) is on June 30. Ma. Luz Ilano-Briones, GSIS Cagayan de Oro branch manager, said the GSIS has 200 college scholarship grants for the school year 2012-2013 to help the dependents of its less privileged members earn a college degree from schools that provide quality education. She said all regular G...
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14Jun2012MANILA, June 14 (PIA) -- The Land Bank of the Philippines recently sealed a remittance business partnership with the Banca Popolare di Sondrio (BPS) of Italy to better serve and respond to the fund transfer needs of Overseas Filipinos based in that country. The partnership will allow our overseas Pinoys and other remitters to send funds directly to the Philippines through the BPS' more than 200 branches, Land Bank said in a statement. In a ceremony held recently at the BPS Head Office in Sondr...
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13Jun2012MANILA, June 13 (PIA) -- GSIS President and General Manager Robert G. Vergara is inviting low-income government workers to nominate their children to the enhanced college scholarship program of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) where 200 slots are available for school year 2012-2013. The deadline for filing of application is on June 30. “As part of celebrating our 75th anniversary this year, the current Board of Trustees revised the scholarship program to ensure that our low-inc...
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11Jun2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, June 11 (PIA) -- The city government of Tacurong in Sultan Kudarat province is widening opportunities of indigent youth to get their education through scholarships. This, with the expected passing of an ordinance establishing and institutionalizing the city local government unit's (LGU) Iskolar ng Lungsod ng Tacurong (ILT) Program, which is now on its final reading. Information from the city’s information office said that the ILT is a...
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09Jun2012BAGUIO CITY, June 9 (PIA) -- A total of 157 college freshmen are recipients of scholarships under the Commission on Higher Education-Cordillera (CHED-CAR) for the school year 2012-2013. This is the number of slots allotted to the 985 students who applied for the Student Financial Assistance Programs (StuFAPs) of CHED CAR for academic year 2012-2013, according to CHED-CAR Assistant Regional Director Dr. Ramon Santiago. Santiago said qualified student grantees or scholars will enjoy financia...
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08Jun2012TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 8 (PIA) -- Twenty-two direct relatives of former rebels in the province get the rare chance to pursue college as beneficiaries of the educational assistance under the re-integration program of the government. Ten are grantees of the scholarship program jointly implemented by the Office of Presidential Adviser on Peace Process (OPAPP) and Commission on Higher Education (CHED) while 12 are covered under the province’s educational aid program. Eusebia Haddac of the P...
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06Jun2012Leo Enriquez is excited. There’s a sparkle in his eyes. He keeps rubbing his hands together, tapping one foot on the floor, and frequently checking his mobile phone for messages from his recruitment agency. A former drug addict, the 38-year old is on a different kind of high these days. He is about to become a “modern-day hero.” In less than a month’s time from now, Enriquez, together with his friend, Eugene Tero, 34, will join the growing ranks of millions of Filipinos toiling abroad ...
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05Jun2012BUTUAN CITY, June 5 (PIA) -- The number of scholarship applicants in Caraga Region increased this year, an official of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-Caraga today said. According to Dr. Julius Sol Jamero, Chief Administrative Officer of CHED-Caraga, the entire region has a total of 878 applicants for the scholarship programs offered by CHED, however, only 140 slots were given to the region. Dr. Jamero added the problem was solved, however, through the initiatives of Agusan del Nort...
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05Jun2012CABARROGUIS, Quirino, June 5 (PIA) -- Around 1,000 deserving youth here received certificates of scholarship from the provincial government under the education program of Gov. Junie E. Cua, which entitle them to a P2,500 additional allowance every semester. Each recipient was chosen based on his or her grades and the living conditions of his or her family. The total number of recipients is on top of the number of Board of Trustees (BOT) scholars for qualified students studying at the Quirino ...
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01Jun2012MALOLOS CITY, Bulacan, June 1 (PIA) -- Researchers from La Consolacion University here in Malolos conducted a research study entitled Physico-biochemical Fingerprints of the Calumpit-Plaridel-Pulilan-Hagonoy-Paombong sections of the Angat River recently. The results under the Grants-in Aid program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) were published in a research monograph and revealed that the upper portions of the Angat River are heavily polluted. It highlights a need for a part...
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31May2012ILOILO CITY, May 31 (PIA6) -- The development of the Parola Ferry Terminal here will provide safe and convenient travel for passengers aboard motorized bancas between Iloilo and Guimaras Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) 6 manager Winfred Elizalde said, “Bancas with outrigger and rigger canoes numbering about 200 will also benefit from the project because they will have a comfortable home of their own where they can be accommodated as compared from their present situation,” said Winfred Eli...
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31May2012LUNGSOD NG MALOLOS, Bulacan, Mayo 31 (PIA) -- Isang pagsasaliksik ukol sa kalagayan ng Calumpit-Plaridel-Pulilan-Hagonoy-Paombong section ng Angat river ang naisakatuparan ng La Consolacion University of the Philippines na may sangay dito sa lungsod katulong ang Department of Science and Technology (DOST). Sa pagsusuring, kung tawagin ay Physico-biochemical Fingerprints, natuklasang heavy polluted na ang nasabing section ng Angat. Kailangan dito ay isang multi-stakeholders approach upang buma...
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29May2012KALIBO, Aklan, May 29 (PIA6) -- A fresh batch of 179 provincial scholars will be trooping to various campuses of the Aklan State University (ASU) here when classes officially open on June 4, courtesy of the Provincial Government College Scholarship Program (PGCSP). These students, according to the provincial government, qualified for the scholarship after passing the qualifying tests by the province given earlier. According to Jun Isagan, provincial staff in charge of PGCSP, these incoming 1...
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29May2012DUMAGUETE CITY, May 29 (PIA)--The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-7) in Central Visayas has announced the Students’ Grants-in-Aid Program for Poverty Alleviation (SGP-PA), which provide college scholarship grants for 282 eligible students in 47 municipalities in region 7 under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program. DSWD7 Information Officer Aileen Lariba said the SGP-PA ensures the underprivileged children has a chance of getting a college education that may qualify for...
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28May2012MANILA, May 28 (PIA) -- A public-private partnership supported by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allowed the installation of environment-friendy solar-powered light emitting diodes or LEDs to a four-lane tunnel that crosses the Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). “ADB is proud to be associated with an initiative that helps the country move towards lower carbon emissions,” Anthony Jude, Director in ADB’s Southeast Asia Department, said in a statement posted on the ADB website. “...
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25May2012DAET, Camarines Norte, Mayo 25 (PIA) -- Mayroong 400 mag-aaral ang pumasa sa isinagawang pagsusulit para sa iskolar ng Camarines Norte Provincial Government College Education Assistance Program (CNPGCEAP) na isinagawa noong Mayo 8 sa provincial library at agro-sports center ng kapitolyo probinsiya dito. Sa 400 na mag-aaral na nakapasa, 273 ay papasok pa lamang sa unang taon, 127 naman ay nasa kolehiyo na, at kasama na rin dito 40 nagtapos ng sekondarya bilang valedictorian at salutatorian na hi...
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23May2012ILIGAN CITY, Lanao del Norte, May 23 (PIA) -- A fabricated Solar Cooker prototype was recently donated for tropical storm Sendong survivors temporarily sheltered at the Siao Box evacuation site, Luinab, Iligan City. The donor EG Solar Germany, in partnership with the Philippine Electronics Communication Institute of Technology (PECIT) of Butuan City, turned over the unit to the site's camp managers, in coordination with the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Lanao del ...
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21May2012QUEZON CITY, May 21 (PIA) -- Thousands of Filipinos, including Metro Manila residents, were mesmerized by the partial solar eclipse they saw early Monday morning. In Novaliches, Quezon City, many residents who just woke up thought it was still night time but they soon realized an eclipse was going on. At the Manila Observatory inside the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) in Loyola Heights, Quezon City, students and officials of the Philippine Astronomical Society (PAS) watched in awe as the p...
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20May2012MANILA, May 19 - Ang Malacanang nag-laum nga ang pag aprobar sa P30 pesos nga additional cost of living allowance (COLA) alang sa mga magtatrabaho sa Metro Manila maka-tabang kanila sa ilang adlaw-adlaw nga kinabuhi. Ang wage board sa National Capital Region sa dili pa lang dugay nag aprobar sa dugang nga P30 pesos nga COLA alang sa mga magtatrabaho sa Metro Manila. “Ang ubang mga Regional Wage Boards nakahimo ug wage orders una pa sa nahimo sa NCR. Ang wage order nga gi-pasamwak karong a...
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17May2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, May 17 (PIA) –- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is now offering a College Scholarship Program to low-income government workers for school year 2012-2013. As part of the 75th anniversary, the current Board of Trustees has revised the scholarship program to ensure that the low-income members will be given the opportunity to send their children to colleges and universities that provide quality education. Under the revised program, the selection of sch...
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17May2012BUTUAN CITY, May 17 (PIA) –- The chief of Caraga region’s National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) has vowed to mold young indigenous peoples (IPs) by providing them education through scholarship programs. This, after earlier report revealed that the agency is supporting some eight IPs this school year as pioneering scholars of the merit-based scholarship program offered by the region’s NCIP. According to NCIP-Caraga Regional Director Dominador Gomez, the merit-based scholarship ...
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17May2012TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte, May 17 --The provincial government has approved the conduct of screening for 50 slots in the technical-vocational scholarship of the provincial government of Davao del Norte. Governor Rodolfo P. del Rosario beefed up the tech-voc grant in order to give poor but deserving students wider access and better opportunities to acquire gainful employment in the future. The new slots are included in the P6.9-million scholarship program of the province this year, which a...
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17May2012The municipal government of Sto. Tomas in Pampanga gives priority to health and education needs of its constituents. In health, 240 women in three barangays in this town were recently given free pap smear examination by a team from the Family Planning Organization of the Philippines (FPOP) and the Municipal Health Office here. Beneficiaries came from barangays San Matias, Moras dela Paz and Sapa. Slated to undergo the exam next week are 23 more women from barangay Pau, 24 from Balangcas and ...
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16May2012PASAY CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- Mipasabot si GSIS President ug General Manager Robert G. Vergara nga sugod kagahapon nga adlaw puwede na mopili ang mga empleyado sa gobyerno nga gagmay lamang ug suweldo sa ilang anak nga makakuha sa College Scholarship Program sa Government Service Insurance System (GSP) diin 200 ka mga slots ang gigahin alang sa school year 2012-2013. Isip kabahin sa ika-75 nga anibersaryo, ang kasamtangang Board of Trustees miusab sa scholarship program aron maseguro nga mahata...
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16May2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, May 16 (PIA) -- Deserving students in Region 10 will soon benefit from the enhanced College Scholarship Program of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS). Ma. Luz Ilano-Briones, GSIS Cagayan de Oro branch manager, said the GSIS has opened 200 college scholarship grants for the school year 2012-2013 and 11 slots are allocated for the region. She said the scholar will be entitled to the actual cost of tuition and miscellaneous fees not exceeding P20,000 and a monthl...
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16May2012CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan, May 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) urged incoming grade 6 students who will graduate in 2013 to apply for a chance to study in the country’s leading science high school through a scholarship program. DOST-Bataan is now accepting applications from public and private schools in the province for the National Competitive Examination which will pave the way for elementary students to get a ticket for enrolment in the Philippine Science High Sch...
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12May2012ANTIPOLO CITY, Rizal, May 12 (PIA) -- Past, present and new scholars of the Rizal College Scholarship Program (RCSP) will be gathering at the Ynares Center tomorrow, May 12, for the 1st Scholars day organized by the provincial government.. Aside from activities, raffles and a concert by OPM band Parokya ni Edgar in the evening, Rizal Governor Jun Ynares III, Technical Education and Skills Development Authority Director General Joel Villanueva and Congressman Roy Duavit will also award certific...
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12May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 12 (PIA)--The Department of Interior Local Government (DILG) Community Based Monitoring System (CBMS) conducted a training of trainers (Province-wide CBMS implementation) at Maqueda Hotel, Catbalogan City on May 9-12. This is to make a municipal poverty map by identifying the poor, where they are, and why they are poor. This data will be inputted to the provincial poverty map. Municipal Local Government Officers (MLGO), Municipal Health Officer (MHOs), social we...
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11May2012DUMAGUETE CITY, May 11 (PIA)-- Six of the 22 new DOST scholars from Negros Oriental intend to enroll in the BS Geology course probably influenced by the recent calamities that hit the province this year. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said the six scholars or 27.3 percent will enroll in the BS Geology course at the Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) this opening school year in June. According to DOST Provincial Director Gilbert Arbon four scholars want to enroll at the ...
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10May2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, May 10 (PIA) -- Out-of-school youth (OSY) in 28 local government units (LGUs) in Northern Mindanao are set to benefit from the implementation of the Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) and Training for Work Scholarship Program (TWSP) convergence in the region. According to the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Regional Office X, the convergence program will cover the poorest areas in the provinces of Bukidnon, Camiguin, Lanao de...
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10May2012LOS BAÑOS, Laguna, May 10 (PIA) -- Science and Technology Secretary Mario G. Montejo announced today that 3,400 high school students have qualified under the 2012-2013 DOST-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) Undergraduate Scholarship Program, or RA 7687. The present number of scholars came from more than 25,672 hopefuls who took the scholarship exam last November 20 in various testing centers throughout the country. Of these, 3,000 incom...
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10May2012BAGUIO CITY, May 10 (PIA) -- Seven scholars of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration-Cordillera Regional Welfare Office (OWWA-CAR) finished their courses this school year with one graduating as cum laude. Graduating scholars under OWWA’s Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) are: Monica Anne Sandoval, who graduated in Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from Saint Louis University (SLU), cum laude; Michael Basilio and Mark Anthony Ferrer, both BS Nursing at SL...
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08May2012CALAUAN, Laguna, May 8 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) scholarship program in this municipality got a much-needed boost with the allotment of P200,000 from Senator Pia Cayetano. Municipal Administrator Jayca Padrid said the amount will cover the expenses in the training program for dressmaking, welding, masonry, plumbing, electrical installation, and carpentry that will start on June 4. According to Padrid, the scholarship is expected to help selected ...
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07May2012Unknown to many, the first Filipino Muslim woman civil engineer has been in government service for four decades, holding the highest regional post for a woman in Mindanao at the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), and making her the first woman regional director of the said agency in the country. Engineer Sinaolan Tanggol Macarambon earned a degree on Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (BSCE) from Mindanao State University in Marawi City in 1968. She passed the board examinat...
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06May2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, May 6 (PIA) -- The issue on the Quality Assurance Program of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) was tackled during the materials engineer meeting in Calbayog City recently. Material engineers came from all over Eastern Visayas from Leyte, Samar provinces, and Biliran. Material engineers design, produce, and evaluate materials and their usage. They bring valuable expertise in the industry materials. In a press statement released to local media, Nenita ...
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06May2012CABANATUAN CITY, Nueva Ecija, Mayo 6 (PIA) -- Mapapanood sa himpapawid ng Pilipinas ang bahagyang pagtakip ng buwan sa araw ngayong Mayo. Iniulat ng Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) na maaring maganap sa ika-21 ng Mayo ang pagdaan ng buwan sa pagitan ng araw at ng daigdig. Ang paggitna ng buwan sa araw at daigdig ay tinatawag na solar eclipse. Kada taon, ay lumiliit ang sukat ng buwan kumpara sa araw. Kaya sa pagdaan ng buwan, wari'y nata...
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06May2012CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro, Mayo 6 (PIA) -- Namahagi ng relief goods sa bayan ng Baco ang Oriental Mindoro Ladies Association (OLA). Ito ay bilang bahagi ng tuluy-tuloy na outreach program sa pangunguna ni Malou Morillo, isa sa mga namumuno ng samahan. Napiling mga benepisyaryo ang barangay Baras na pamayanan ng mga katutubong Mangyan at ang barangay Bayanan. Tinahak ng grupo ang makitid na kalsadang nasa gilid ng bangin upang marating ang liblib na barangay ng Baras kasama ang mag-asa...
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04May2012BUTUAN CITY, Mayo 4 (PIA) -- Mukabat sa 18 ka kabatan-unang estudyanteng naggikan sa probinsya sa Agusan del Sur ang nakapasar sa gipahigayong eksaminasyon sa Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholarship ang nipirma sa kasabutan sa departamento isip mga bag-ong scholars. Atol sa nasangpit nga kalihukan, si DOST-Caraga Regional Director Lindo Villacorta niingon nga ang numero sa mga nagmalampuson sa rehiyon nidoble kung ikumpara sa niaging tuig. “Mapasigarbohon jud nakong i-anunsyo...
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03May2012AGUSAN DEL SUR, May 3 (PIA) -- A total of 18 young students from this province who passed the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) scholarship examination signed the contract with the department and attended the one-day orientation to officially acknowledge their sincerity and willingness to abide by the rules set by the government to scholars, while signifying their intention to take full advantage and responsibility of the privilege given to them. In the said ceremony, DOST-Caraga Reg...
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30Apr2012MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, April 30 -- A total of 125 out-of-school youths (OSYs) from 13 towns and one city in Bukidnon will benefit from the scholarship training by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and the Special Program for Employment of Students (SPES) of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Catherine M.R. Galapon, TESDA Provincial Director, said the OSY beneficiaries will be enrolled in various skills training programs identified by TESDA. “We will...
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29Apr2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, April 29 (PIA) -- A total of 21 municipalities in three provinces of Soccsksargen region will benefit from the initial implementation of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)-Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Convergence Program on poverty alleviation. The program brings together DOLE’s Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority’s Training ...
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27Apr2012TANDAG CITY, Surigao del Sur, April 27 (PIA) -– The Farmer Field School (FFS) in Surigao del Sur has produced more number of farmer-graduates. Marcos Quico, provincial agriculturist, said two separate batches of farmers will add to the list since they are slated to graduate at the end of this month in Barangays Unidos and Kinabigtasan in Tago, Surigao del Sur. Quico stressed, since the implementation of the FFS in the province several years back, over a thousand farmers have already gradu...
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26Apr2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, April 26 (PIA) -- Anempulo enggo pat a mga kabataan kanu langun a sakop nu Soccsksargen Region e nakapasa sa undergraduate scholarship program nu Department of Science and Technology- Science Education Institute. Inipayag ni DOST-12 Regional Director Zenaida Laidan sa aden anempulo enggo isa a kabataan a mga miskinen e nakaludep sa S & T scholarship kanu didalem nu RA 7687 ataw ka Science Scholarship Act of 1994. Telukataw bon e nakaludep sa Merit Scholarship Awa...
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26Apr2012LUNGSOD NG KORONADAL, South Cotabato, Abril 25 (PIA) -- Animnapu't apat na kabataan sa buong Soccksargen Region ang nakapasa sa undergraduate scholarship program ng Department of Science and Technology – Science Education Institute. Inihayag ni DOST-12 Regional Director Zenaida Laidan na may 61 kabataang mahihirap ang nakapasok sa S&T scholarship sa ilalim ng RA 7687 o Science Scholarship Act of 1994. Tatlo rin ang pumasok sa Merit Scholarship Award. Aniya kasama ang mga naturang mga isk...
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25Apr2012CEBU CITY, April 25 (PIA) -- Seven agrarian dependents in Cebu through the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), Cebu Provincial Office scholarship program, “Programang Agrayro Iskolar,” graduated in college on this year. Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer Isaganie Yee congratulated Grace Canete, Mitchelle Labrador, Romar Manego, Napoleon Lacno Jr., James Morales, Jovie Prajes, for Bachelor of Elementary Education; Pronaley Capungan for school year 2012 in Bachelor of Science in Agriculture....
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23Apr2012LEGAZPI CITY, April 23 (PIA) -- Bicolano leaders are urged to apply for the Australia Awards for Development for 2013 available for Masters and PhD levels in Australia to contribute to the accelerated and equitable growth of the various regions of the country. Australian Ambassador to the Philippines Bill Tweddell said, "the Development Awards, through extensive scholarship programs, aim to contribute to the long term development of the Philippines, and to promote knowledge, education links and...
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23Apr2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, April 23 (PIA) -- Close to 400 jobs in the Republic of Angola are up for grabs to Kapampangan professionals and skilled workers during tomorrow’s one-day job fair at the Provincial Capitol. Provincial Public Employment Services Office chief Luningning Vergara said that PhilAfrica Technical Resources Inc. – a licensed recruitment agency will be in Pampanga to conduct a pre-screening of the applicants. Among the job vacancies in the African state include civil...
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21Apr2012DIPOLOG CITY, April 21 (PIA) -- Thirty three poor but deserving students are now assured of a free post secondary education, courtesy of the provincial government of Zamboanga del Norte. Zamboanga del Norte Provincial Governor Rolando E. Yebes recently reported that the provincial government has selected 33 youths as its scholars for degree and/or non-degree programs offered by the Jose Rizal Memorial State University (JRMSU) and Dipolog School of Fisheries (DSF) starting June this year. The s...
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20Apr2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, April 20 -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Region 10 announces the new batch of science scholars from Northern Mindanao. There are 11 qualifiers under the Merit Category and 132 qualifiers for Republic Act 7687. The scholars will enjoy tuition and school fee grants, PE uniforms, book and transportation allowances, monthly stipend, and group accident insurance. The new scholars are expected to enroll in an approved priority science and technology courses at...
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19Apr2012BACOLOD CITY, April 19 (PIA6) -- A total of 133 students has been granted scholarships under the Negros Occidental Scholarship Program. NegOcc. Gov. Alfredo Marañon signed the scholarship agreement between the provincial government and the scholarship grantees recently, a press release from the Capitol said. The scholarships are in five categories - the District Educational Scholarship offered to children of low-income families; Pagkaon Scholarship offered to children of farmers, fisherfol...
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18Apr2012The urgent need to open up more work opportunities here was underscored after a worker who dreamt of opening up a box of fortunes abroad came home in a box. Not heeding the known risks of working in an international shipping company plying dangerous international shipping lanes, Boholano Stephen M. Barbarona took the dare for a vision of a bright future for his wife and family. Newly married at 33, Barbarona’s dream of a good life dimmed to a nightmare when pirates boarded their ship, MV Eg...
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18Apr2012DUMAGUETE CITY, April 18 (PIA) -- Twenty-eight high school graduates in Negros Oriental passed the scholarship exam of the Department of Science and Technology-Science Education Institute (DOST-SEI) for June 2012 school year. According to DOST Information Officer Roslyn Tambago the passers are qualified as scholars to science and technology under the RA 7687, a scholarship program for talented and deserving students belonging to economically disadvantaged families. DoST-SEI scholars under the...
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18Apr2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, April 18 (PIA) -- The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Region 2 has announced 93 available slots for scholarship grants to deserving poor students who will be entering the tertiary education this school year. Dr. Honorato Alzate, education supervisor II, said the said slots will also be distributed among applicants from the 10 congressional districts of Cagayan Valley region to accommodate poor students who are willing to finish a degree course. He explained that, thou...
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18Apr2012DIPOLOG CITY, April 18(PIA) -- Eleven student-scholars of the “Programang Agraryo Iskolar” of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) have graduated for school year 2011-2012 at the different campuses of the Jose Rizal Memorial State University (JRMSU) in Zamboanga del Norte recently. Of the 11 graduates, six are from JRMSU-Katipunan Campus, four (4) from JRMSU Tampilisan Campus, and one from JRMSU Dipolog City- Campus. Jobert Lopina, who is a native of Godod, Zamboanga del Norte graduate...
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17Apr2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, Apr. 17 (PIA) -- Fifty-five high school graduates from all over Region IX passed the highly competitive Science & Technology (S&T) Scholarship Examination of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) given October of last year. DOST IX Regional Director Brenda Nazareth-Manzano said, as scholars, these students will get a monthly stipend in addition to free tuition and miscellaneous expenses. The program will also provide uniform and transportation allowances to the grant...
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17Apr2012QUEZON CITY, April 17 (PIA) -- The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) said Tuesday it is putting up solar-powered plants in agrarian reform areas nationwide as part of the Aquino administration’s effort to provide cheaper and cleaner electricity in the countryside. DAR also said it is offering an attractive rental package to a number of agrarian reform beneficiaries, who are willing to lease out their farms in areas where solar-powered plants could be built. Agrarian Reform Secretary Gil...
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17Apr2012DUMAGUETE CITY, April 17 (PIA) -- The COCO Foundation is offering 10 slots as its scholarship grant through the Negros Oriental State University (NORSU) in Dumaguete City for academic year 2012-2013. Recipients of the scholarship grant are children of small coconut farmers in the province. The COCO Foundation is administered through the United Coconut Planters Bank - Coco Industry Investment (UCPB-CIFF) Group of Companies. The foundation was established in 1987 as a non-stock, non-profit or...
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17Apr2012QUEZON CITY, April 17 (PIA) -- Nanawagan ang Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) sa tanan interesadong aplikante sa pampubliko ug pampribadong sector sa pagpa enroll sa ilang mga programa alang sa tuig 2012. Nanawat na karon ang academy ug mga aplikante alang sa Public Management Development Program (PMDP), National Government’s Career Executive Service Development Program (NGCESDP), ug Executive Doctorate in Education Leadership (EDEL). Ang PMDP usa ka intensive, multi-modal tr...
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16Apr2012BUTUAN CITY, April 16 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Caraga Region has announced the 63 high school graduates who qualified in the 2012 DOST-Science Education Institute (SEI) scholarship programs. According to DOST-Caraga Assistant Regional Director for Technical Operations Dominga D. Mallonga, of the qualified applicants, 57 examinees, who are poor but deserving students, qualified for the Republic Act (RA) 7687 scholarship grants, otherwise known as the Science and ...
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15Apr2012ANGELES CITY, April 15 (PIA) -- As evidence to the city’s commitment in providing quality education to deserving students, a government scholar here recently finished his degree at Angeles University Foundation as Cum Laude. Justin Yves Gozun, a 21-year-old Nursing student has been under the Public Employment and Services Office (PESO) scholarship program during the entire duration of his four-year college education. According to Gozun, he receives scholarship assistance of P20,000 every sem...
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13Apr2012COTABATO CITY, April 13, (PIA)-- Some 139 high school scholars of MDG-Youth Employment and Migration (MDG-YEM) in Maguindanao in Maguindanao in partnership with the International Organization on Migration (IOM) have successfully completed their secondary education during graduation rites held last week of March, this year. Of the 179 total Education Subsidy Scholars, 139 have graduated high school while 40 are incoming senior students enrolled in different public secondary schools, namely: the...
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13Apr2012FORT MAGSAYSAY, Nueva Ecija, April 13 (PIA) -- The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) needs more doctors to serve its soldiers, a former ambassador who now co-chairs a foundation said Wednesday. Former Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Edgardo Espiritu said the Alay Sa Kawal (ASK) Foundation has been offering scholarships to encourage children and relatives of military personnel to become medical doctors for the armed forces. Ambassador Espiritu made the announcement on the occasi...
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12Apr2012TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite, April 12 (PIA) -- Students who want to avail the provincial scholarship program (PSP) can apply via online registration starting April 16 through the official website of the province: www.cavite.gov.ph/psp. There are 2,000 scholarship slots for the coming school year. Those who will be qualified and will pass the qualifying examination given by the Provincial Scholarship Program Committee will get P5,000 each as educational financial assistance. This is the commitm...
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11Apr2012CEBU CITY, April 11 (PIA) --- The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) collected nearly P9.8 million in resource user fees from the three protected areas in Central Visayas in 2011. DENR-7 regional executive director Maximo Dichoso said that the resource user fee is paid for the commercial use of a specified quantity of resources within the protected areas over a specified period of time. “This is for access to and sustainable use of resources located in protected areas...
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02Apr2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union April 2 (PIA) -- Three students from the region qualified for the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration – Regional Welfare Office 1 OWWA-RWO1) Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) from among the Top 100 examiners nationwide. According to Amapola Z. Villar, Labor Communications Officer, OWWA 1, EDSP is an educational assistance given to active Overseas Filipino Workers’ dependents. Villar said that the said students are among 408 OFW dependent...
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29Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 29 (PIA) -- Three scholars and one scholar-graduate of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) won in the 8th SMART Wireless Engineering Education Program Innovation and Excellence Awards conducted by the SMART Telecommunications, Inc. Daisyrie Sangalang and Jessaree Atienza, fifth year DOST scholars taking up electronics and communications engineering at the Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) won second runner-up for their project, “ ...
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27Mar2012SAN JOSE, Antique, (PIA) -- May 102 ka mga imol nga estudyante nga ginbuligan kang International Organization for Migration ukon IOM paagi sa programa nga ‘Youth Employment and Migration” (YEM) kag gin pondohan kang gobyerno ka España natalana nga magtapos kadya nga Marso. Dya halin sa tatlo ka eskwelahan sa probinsya kun sa diin ang dya nga mga imol nga estudyante gintaw-an kang bulig nga P1,000 kada bulan bilang suporta sa andang kinahanglanun sa eskwelahan kag P500 para ibayad sa “m...
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27Mar2012SAN JOSE, Antique, Mar 27 (PIA) -- Every parent dreams of seeing their children receive their diploma to mark their graduation. This dream is made more meaningful when parents can hardly send their children to school but because of support from civic spirited institutions, government agencies and international organizations, they were able to hurdle the hardships and see their son/daughter come up the stage with flying colors. In Antique, a total of 102 poor but deserving students are set to ...
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27Mar2012COTABATO CITY, March 27 (PIA) -- To help families of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) engage in gainful employment, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (OWWA-ARMM) intensifies programs and projects for the benefit and welfare of OFWs. One of the programs being implemented is the Skills for Employment Scholarship Program (SESP) which provides educational assistance to student-dependents of OFWs who are based in the autonomous region. OWWA-ARMM...
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26Mar2012BACOOR, Cavite, March 26 (PIA) -- More than eight hundred (800) underprivileged but deserving students recently received financial assistance from the local government under the “Strike Scholarship Program.” The distribution was held at the Bacoor town plaza and was attended by the students and their proud parents. Under the program, students who excel in their studies (academically) are given financial assistance by the local government to address some of their financial requirements. ...
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25Mar2012TACLOBAN CITY, Mar. 25 (PIA) –Nakatuman an kadam-an nga mga local government units (LGUs) ha Eastern Visayas han kanan gobyerno full disclosure policies. Inabot daw ha 121 han 149 nga LGUs ha Eastern Visayas in nagtuman han Full Disclosure Policy (FDP) segun han Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Regional Management ngan field officers. Amo ini an pahayag ni DILG Region 8 Director Pedro Noval Jr. pina-agi kan Myles Colasito, DILG information officer. Han Marso 21, mayda na...
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22Mar2012SAN JOSE,Antique March 22 (PIA) -- Five barangays in the town of Culasi in northern Antique are recipients of ten solar lamps from a non-government organization. The five barangays located in the mountain area of the town are Brgys San Vicente, Flores, Tinabuan, Osorio and Simbula. These places serves as the entry and exit points going to Mt. Madia-as, considered the sixth highest mountain in the Philippines and the highest in Panay Island. It is situated at about 2,117 mete...
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19Mar2012LUCENA CITY, Quezon, March 19 (PIA) --The provincial government of Quezon continues to implement “Serbisyong Suarez Scholarship Program (SSSP)” intended for sons, daughters of farmers or fisherfolks in this province. Julius Parcarey, project coordinator of the SSSP said this is an educational program established in 2010 under the leadership of Gov. David C. Suarez. It is dubbed as a vehicle for knowledge sharing that entails in providing scholarship grant...
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17Mar2012DIGOS CITY, Davao del Sur, Mar. 17 (PIA) -- The municipal government of Malalag in this province has allocated P300,000 budget to accommodate 70 high school scholars for the next school year. Bernadette Saladaga, municipal Public Employment Service Office (PESO) manager, said the budget has increased this year from the P100,000 allotment of last year to strengthen the scholarship program of the local government. Saladaga said the scholars will be provided P1,500 each for th...
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17Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 17 (PIA) -- Pampanga Fourth District Board Member Ric Yabut strongly urged the 50 scholars of the provincial government in his district to ensure that they complete their college education as he encouraged them to never give up hope in pursuing their dreams. The board member recently distributed the P2,500.00 financial assistance to each of the 50 deserving college students at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall of the provincial capitol. &nb...
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16Mar2012NAVAL, Biliran, March 15 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) in Biliran is calling on high school graduates here to avail of the various scholarship grants offered by their agency for the next school year opening in June 2012. The call was made by Loreta Banario, provincial director of TESDA-Biliran during the Kapihan sa PIA held on Thursday, March 15, live in Radyo Nation - Naval. The national scholarship include the Training ...
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16Mar2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, March 16 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) here aims to collect P 570 million this year said Revenue District Officer Rolando Espina. The office encouraged government agencies like DILG, Civil Service Commission, the PNP, and the Philippine Information Agency (PIA); and the private sector to support the tax campaign. BIR Assistant Regional Director Atty Nasser A. Tanggor congratulated district 87 for topping the collection target in all six r...
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14Mar2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 14 (PIA) -- Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Regional Office 3 continues to invite Central Luzon residents who wish to pursue a master’s or doctorate degree in science and technology to apply for the scholarships given by the Science Education Institute (SEI). DOST Regional information officer Marites Batac said, “The Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program scholarships of SEI is open to all Filip...
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14Mar2012LUNGSOD NG SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Mar. 14 (PIA) -- Patuloy na iniimbitahan ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST) Regional Office 3 ang mga residente ng Gitnang Luzon na nais kumuha ng master’s o doctorate degree sa agham at teknolohiya na mag-apply sa mga scholarships na alok ng Science Education Institute (SEI). Ayon kay DOST Regional information officer Marites Batac, ang Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program scholarships ng SEI ay buk...
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12Mar2012VIGAN CITY, March 12 (PIA) -- Some 500 college students, who are members of the cultural minority in Ilocos Sur, received their scholarship allowances from the national government through the National Commission for Indigenous People (NCIP) covering the second semester for school year 2011 -2012 in a simple ceremony held in Candon City Civic Center, recently. NCIP Region 1 Director Ruben S. Bastero said that the scholarship grant which was called NCIP Educational Assistance Program (N...
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08Mar2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, March 8 (PIA) -- Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources - Region 12 (BFAR -12) is calling on graduating high school students and high school graduates interested in pursuing a career in fisheries to avail of the agency’s scholarship grant. BFAR announced this week that they are still looking for scholarship grantees in Region 12 for its Fisheries Scholarship Program (FSP), implemented in cooperati...
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05Mar2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, March 5 (PIA) – Nagkab-ot sa P24 Milyones ang pondo nga gintigana sang probinsiya sang South Cotabato sa sini nga tuig para sa scholarship programa sang mga kabataan nga imol sa idalom sang Kabugwason Paglaum Scholarship Program (KPSP). Suno kay Alex Basco, executive director sang KPSP, P15 milyones ang gintigana para sa mga iskolar sang kolehiyo kag vocational technical schools. P9 milyones naman ang gintigana para sa grant-in-aid kung sa diin k...
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04Mar2012DAVAO CITY, Mar. 4 (PIA) -- A student from Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus has achieved the highest score in the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) examinations of 2011. Diness Pascua Cortez led the top ten passers of OWWA-EDSP exams held simultaneously nationwide and also in Riyadh and Jeddah of Saudi Arabia last November and December of 2011. The top ten were among the 100 Overseas Filipi...
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03Mar2012QUEZON CITY, March 3 (PIA) -- Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief Lieutenant General Jessie D. Dellosa recently honored the 333-strong Philippine Contingent to Golan Heights in a welcome and awarding ceremony held Thursday, March 1 at the General Headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City. Dellosa congratulated the contingent for the deployment and commitment in promoting peace in the contested territory for almost a year. “The entire military organization is proud of ...
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03Mar2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato March 3 (PIA) -- The provincial government of South Cotabato has allotted P24 million for its flagship Kabugwason-Paglaum Scholarship Program (KPSP) and grant-in aid assistance to poor but deserving students this year, a provincial government official said. Alex Basco, executive director of the KPSP, ...
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01Mar2012NEGROS ORIENTAL, March 1 (PIA) -- The U.S. Embassy launched the English Access Micro-scholarship (Access) Program recently at T. Paez Integrated School in Tondo, Manila. The Access Program is one of the U.S. Government’s premier English language programs. A U.S. Embassy press release stated that the program offers a foundation of English language skills by providing 360 hours of after-school classes and intensive sessions for two years to talented 14- to 18-year...
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28Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 28 (PIA) -- The local government unit of Calayan Island granted scholarships to 290 Calayano tertiary students who are pursuing college degrees in different universities and colleges in the mainland Cagayan. Mayor Alfonso Llopis personally met with the students who are enrolled in the tertiary institutions to give their stipend of P2, 000 each per semester. Calayan is an island municipality of Cagayan that can be only be reached via sea transportation. Stu...
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26Feb2012CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) now accepts applications for its student financial assistance programs (StuFAPs) in a bid to make tertiary education accessible to all. CHED Education Supervisor Yolanda Cordova said StuFAPs are in three categories, first of which is the full and half merit scholarships. The other categories are student loan programs and grant-in-aid. Grant-in-aid is sub-categorized into four. First is th...
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26Feb2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Feb. 26 (PIA) -- The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has allocated 37 slots for the Visayas applicants of the 200 college scholarship slots nationwide this year. Active members of GSIS in Negros Oriental are encouraged to join the GSIS Scholarship Program. The 200 scholarship slots are made available in National Capital Region (61 slots), Luzon (58), Visayas (37) and Mindanao (44) for school year 2012 to 2013. To join, members need to fill in...
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22Feb2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 22 -- Fifty-two poor and deserving student scholars of the City College Scholarship Program (CCSP), Cagayan De Oro City are set to graduate from their chosen courses next month. The graduating scholars were presented by the CCSP Committee, under the supervision of City Accountant Wilma Polley-Rugay, during the flag-raising ceremony at the City Hall, Feb. 20. The CCSP was conceived under the auspices of Mayor Vicente Y. Emano in 1998 and offers a free m...
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20Feb2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 20 -- Energy firm STEAG State Power Inc. handed-over some 500 pieces of solar-powered emergency rechargeable lamps to the residents of Xavier EcoVille in Lumbia Cagayan de Oro City. Present during the turn-over program were Steag officials led by Dr. Carsten Evers and Ghaye Alegrio, Fr. Eric Velandria of Xavier University, and Bam Aquino of Hapinoy. The assistance is a part of Steag’s support to the rehabilitation efforts for the victims of...
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20Feb2012TUGEUGARAO CITY, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Eighty-one dependents of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are assisted by the Overseas Welfare Workers Administration (OWWA) scholarship programs in the Cagayan Valley region. Family Welfare Office Lea Marie Carag-Barasi said that in the OFW-dependent scholarship program, 64 students who are pursuing associate degree studies will receive P20,000 each per school year for their tuition fees, miscellaneous, and other educational requirements. On the education for...
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20Feb2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Feb. 20 (PIA) -- Soccsksargen Region’s Office of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA-12) here has announced the opening of the Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) for school year 2013-2014. OWWA 12 Regional Director Abdulgani K. Umag said, the scholarship is open to all graduating high school...
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20Feb2012KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Feb 20 (PIA) -- At least 2,200 scholarship slots for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) are open in Soccsksargen Region this year, an official of TESDA-12 said. TESDA 12 Regional Director Zeus Ampuyas told members of the media here that 800 of these allocations are intended for the Priv...
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19Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, Feb 19 (PIA) -- The Philippine National Police in Region 8 Provincial Office, welcomed chief superintendent Eusebio “Boy” Mejos who assumed as Provincial Director of Samar during the turnover ceremony from outgoing officer-in-charge, Nolasco Bathan. During the ceremony, Mejos said, “kakaibiganin natin ang mga LGUs. We will endeavor to have strong linkages with other stakeholders,” he added. To his chiefs of police and the entire Samar polic...
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18Feb2012MANILA, Peb. 18 (PIA) -- Ginagawan na ng paraan ng Department of Science and Technology (DOST) na madagdagan ang badyet para sa scholarship na ibinibigay nila sa kursong Geology. Sa panayam ng DZMM TeleRadyo, inihayag ni DOST Secretary Mario Montejo na sa paraang ito, mas maka-eengganyo ng maraming high school graduates na kumuha ng kursong Geology dahil sa sa scholarship na inaalok ng DOST. Kasunod ito nang pag-amin ng Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIV...
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17Feb2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Feb. 17 (PIA) -- The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has a P5 million scholarship fund for construction-related training to benefit the earthquake victims in badly hit areas in the first district of Negros Oriental. TESDA Provincial Director Toni June Tamayo said the program is intended to help fast track the rehabilitation and repair efforts of essential infrastructures damaged by the strong quake such as roads and bridges and even houses. ...
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17Feb2012QUEZON CITY, Feb. 18 (PIA) – Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Leo Jasareno said that the agency offers scholarships to deserving college students who want to major in Geology, Mining Engineering and Metallurgical Engineering courses. The scholarship program was introduced by the bureau in 2010 to address the lack of geologists, mining engineers and metallurgical engineers in the government sector. A scholar must render three years of service with MGB f...
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17Feb2012CEBU CITY, February 17 (PIA) -- Nearly 100 kilos of trash were collected by more than 200 volunteers who conducted a clean up campaign at the Olango Island Wildlife Sanctuary, Lapulapu City, Cebu in celebration of the World Wetlands Day (WWD) on February 2. DENR-7 regional executive director Maximo Dichoso said, “garbage on our beaches and in our waterways is posing potential threats or danger to our marine resources where we rely for food and livelihood among ou...
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14Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 14 (PIA) -- Ang mga estudyante nga tali-graduwar na dinhing dapita ug sa bisan asa sa probinsiya kinsa naa sa top five sa graduating class gihagit sa Congresista ning lalawigan pagpahimulos sa iyang scholarship program alang sa taliabot nga school year, 2012-2013. Apan kini ubos sa nag-unang kondisyon, nga ang maong tinun-an mokuhag kurso nga agriculture sa government school ning probinsiya, ang Southern Leyte State University (SLSU) o ang Maasin Ci...
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13Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 13 (PIA) -- Graduating high school students here and anywhere in the province who belong to the top five of the graduating class were challenged by the province's representative to avail of his scholarship program for the coming school year, 2012-2013. But one pre-requisite condition should be met, and that is, that the student take up an agriculture course at a government school here in the province, referring to the Southern Leyte State Univ...
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13Feb2012COTABATO CITY, February 13, 2012 (PIA) - The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has set the deadline in the submission of application for its Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) for school year 2013-2014 on August 31, 2012. OWWA-ARMM regional head Amy Crisostomo said, EDSP is scholarship granted to qualified dependents and beneficiaries of active-member-OFWs who intend to pursue a four to five-year baccalaureate in any CHED accredited college or university o...
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12Feb2012CATBALOGAN CITY, Samar, February 11 (PIA) –- Three Samar coastal towns united together in order to push for the protection and sustainability of the marine products in Maqueda Bay. The mayors of Tarangnan, Daram and the city of Catbalogan signed a joint Memorandum of Agreement on February 10, 2012 at the Catbalogan City Session Hall, signifying cooperation in implementing local fishery laws pursuant to Republic Act 8550 otherwise known as the Philippine Fisheries Code. Th...
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10Feb2012TUGUEGARAO CITY, Feb. 9 (PIA) -- The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Region 2, in collaboration with the Department of Education, will facilitate a competitive examination to screen applicants for the fisheries scholarship program. Nely T. dela Cruz, chief of the administrative division, said the competitive examination will be held at Cagayan National High School on March 17, 2012. Dela Cruz said that the program aims to help students who want to pursue tertiary educa...
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08Feb2012MAASIN CITY, Southern Leyte, Feb. 8 (PIA) -- Interested and qualified youths in this city can avail of a scholarship training program for three vocational-technical courses at a private learning school here in partnership with the Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA). In a phone interview with the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) this morning, TESDA provincial director Rolando Juanillo said the three voch-tech courses due to open at the Saint Joseph Co...
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07Feb2012CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Feb. 7 -- The Sons and Daughters of OFWs (SDOFW) among Bukidnon Association of Catholic Schools (BUACS) held their 2nd General Assembly, with a theme “To gather and be strengthened with each other’s faith and giftedness.” Around 207 SDOFWs from the 11 towns in the province of Bukidnon participated in the activity, held at the Holy Cross High School, Camp Phillips, Manolo Fortich town, Jan. 27-29. The gathering was spearheaded by the Dioces...
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07Feb2012DAVAO CITY , Feb 7 (PIA) -- Thirty climbers are all set to hike Mt. Apo, Philippines’ highest peak, on February 10 to 13 for the last climb of the six highest mountains chosen for the Hike for Light, a nationwide campaign aimed to distribute solar-powered energy systems to rural communities in the mountains. After its first climb at Mt. Dulang-Dulang last November 25 to 27 and followed with a climb at Mt. Canlaon, Mt. Majaas, Mt. Pulag, and Mt. Guiting-Guiting, the team le...
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07Feb2012MAKATI CITY, Feb. 7 (PIA) -- Starting next school year, 2012-2013, Makati scholars enrolled at the University of the Philippines (UP) and Philippine Normal University (PNU) will be receiving a monthly stipend of P4,000 after the City Council approved the P3.9-million budget appropriation through City Ordinance No. 2012-001. Under its college scholarship program, the city government grants full scholarship at the said universities to economically disadvantaged but deserving high ...
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06Feb2012ZAMBOANGA CITY, Feb. 6 (PIA) -- The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Region 9 is now accepting applications for its OFW Dependent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) for school year 2012-2013. OWWA Officer Leonilo Y. Daymiel said a total of 64 slots have been allotted for Region 9 this year. The scholarship program offers financial assistance of P20,000 per school year to qualified dependents of OFWs who are OWWA active member and whose monthly salary is not more than US$ 40...
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06Feb2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Feb. 12 (PIA) -- The Department of Agriculture, thru the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) 1 in cooperation with Department of Education (DedED), is offering scholarship to high school graduating students from both public and private schools/ According to BFAR 1 Aquaculturist II Dario Doctulero, the Fisheries Scholarship Program (FSP) aims to produce a critical mass of highly qualified fishery manpower to serve the requirements of both the g...
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06Feb2012BUTUAN CITY, Feb. 6 (PIA) -- The Philippine-American Educational Foundation (PAEF) is calling all interested Filipino faculty members and professionals to apply for the scholarship of the 2013-2014 Fulbright graduate degree and non-degree study grants in the United States. According to Commission on Higher Education (CHED)-Caraga website at www.chedcaraga.com, the program enables qualified Filipinos to pursue their graduate studies in their fields of interest in the United State...
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03Feb2012SAN FERNANDO CITY, La Union, Feb. 3 (PIA) -- The Department of Science and Technology 1 (DOST-R1) thru the Science Education Institute recently announced that it is now accepting application for graduate scholarship, thru the Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program (ASTHRD) for Master’s and Doctorate degrees. According to Rachelle Jose, DOST 1 Project Assistant III, application form and other required documents may be submitted personally or m...
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03Feb2012KORONADAL CITY, Pebrero 3 (PIA) – Pormal ng inilunsad kahapon ni Maguindanao Gov. Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu ang college scholarship program para sa mga mahihirap nguni't karapat dapat na mga residente ng lalawigan. Ang scholarship program na kilala ring Maguindanao PEACE o MagPEACE ang tutulong sa mga mag-aaral mula sa mga mahihirap na pamilya na makapagpatuloy na kanilang pag-aaral sa kolehiyo. Ayon kay Mangudadatu, ang programa umano ...
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03Feb2012PAGBILAO, Quezon- February 3 (PIA)- The Team Energy Corporation is accepting applications for its “Gintong Binhi ng Karunungan scholarship program” intended to poor but deserving high school graduates in Quezon province. Eugene Vertudazo of Team Energy Corporation said as of today, Team Energy has 19 scholars and another five scholars will be added this coming June 2012 or school year 2012-2013. Vertudazo als...
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31Jan2012DUMAGUETE CITY, Jan. 31 (PIA) -- Some 75 houses located in off-grid areas in Negros Oriental are expected to be lighted up using solar energy during the first quarter of this year. Said houses are located in off-grid areas in Vallehermoso, La Libertad and Guihulngan towns which are within the coverage area of Negros Oriental Electric Cooperative I (NORECO I). The solar home system technology will be installed in 25 houses in each of the three towns. Off-grid ar...
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30Jan2012CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan, Jan. 30 (PIA) -- The municipal social welfare office has created a center for youth curfew violators. The Balagtas Kanlungan Drop-in Center, which was constructed last year in Brgy. Santol, is a temporary facility for delinquent minors in the town who will be caught loitering in streets during the 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew. “This facility is complete with amenities, with rooms which could accommodate about 120 youth, comfort room, dining area, rec...
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29Jan2012LAGAWE, Ifugao, Jan. 29 (PIA)--The Department of Agriculture through the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, in cooperation with the Department of Education, will conduct the competitive examination for the Fisheries Scholarship Program on March 17, 2012. The exam is open to high school graduates/graduating students who are Filipino citizens, not more than 20 years old and certified by their school heads as among the top ten of the graduating class in which they belong and ...
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29Jan2012by Alex A. Lumaque ROXAS CITY, Capiz, Jan. 29 (PIA6) – Ninety scholars under the Viable and Innovative College (VIC) scholarship program of the Capiz provincial government will graduate this year. VIC Scholars Secretariat staff Grace Dilao said in an online news that twenty – six bachelor’s degree courses and 68 vocational and technical courses scholars are candidates for graduation on the fifth year of the program implementation under Capiz Gov. Victor A. Ta...
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26Jan2012CITY OF MALOLOS, Bulacan, Jan. 26 (PIA) -- Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) has allocated a total of P1.1 billion for its scholarship program which will initially give jobs to 45,500 trainees upon graduation. Speaking in the opening of the Central Luzon Regional Skills Competition yesterday here, TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva said P500 million was allotted to the training program on business process outsourcing where 65,000 trainees will be enrolled ...
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26Jan2012QUEZON CITY, Jan. 26 (PIA) -- One hundred and fifty one scholarships in state universities nationwide are still open for dependents of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), according to AFP Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Jessie D. Dellosa. He also encouraged AFP units to further promote and advertise the scholarship program to help more military dependents in their college education. “This implicates our strong commitment and concern for the future of our youth as t...
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25Jan2012SORSOGON CITY, Jan. 25 (PIA) -- Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Proceso J. Alcala will be awarding checks, including agricultural comprehensive scholarships to farmers, fisher folks and irrigators, a total of 200 beneficiaries on Jan. 26 at the Sorsogon Provincial Gymnasium under the "Agrikultura: Kaagapay ng Bayang Pinoy (AKBAY)" program. The beneficiaries were previously identified and have undergone validation by the four different attached agencies of DA as those ...
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24Jan2012Young Minds Academy season-6 now accepts applications CEBU CITY, Jan 24 (PIA) -- Young Minds Academy (YMA) of a Cebu-based non-government organization Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, Inc. (RAFI) now accepts applications for its season-6 scholarship program. According to RAFI, YMA is a youth leadership and citizenship development program of the Eduardo Aboitiz Development Studies Center (EADSC) that aims to develop young people to become responsible and accountable lea...
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23Jan2012MANILA, Jan. 23 (PIA) -- Be a student in Japan! The Japanese government now opens its application for the 2012 Japanese Government Scholarship for Teacher Training and Japanese Studies category According to the Japanese Embassy, the scholarship is open to all Filipinos who can meet the following requirements: Category Requirements Age ...
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19Jan2012by Lizel S. Macatangay NAGA CITY, Jan. 19 (PIA) -- This city will soon be powered by led solar-powered street lights once the said donation from the Sumai International Corporation from China are properly installed in the thoroughfares of this metropolis. Sumai country manager Oscar Arcilla handed over a total of 20 units of solar-powered steed lights worth P200,000 each to Naga City Mayor John Bongat in a simple turn over ceremony at the City hall early this week. &nb...
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29Nov2011MALAYBALAY CITY, Bukidnon, Nov. 29 (PIA) –- As Christmas nears, more than 80 households in off-grid communities along the mountain trails were lighted when the Solar Energy Foundation (SEF), in partnership with Kaya ng Pinoy Foundation (KPF) mountaineering society launched the Hike for Light (H4L) 2011. Chinie Canivel, SEF Program Manager said the solar lamps, which were given free, are specially designed to be carried to remote locations where electricity is not available. “It is ...
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03Nov2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Nov. 3 (PIA) -- Some 400 student-scholars will be able to pay their tuition fees to the schools where they are respectively enrolled in, as House Deputy Speaker and 1st District Representative Beng Climaco-Salazar distributed this morning checks for their first semester allowances. Climaco, personally handed over the checks to the 400 District I scholars under the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The simple “hand-over” rites were held at the Ateneo de Zamb...
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21Oct2011GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Oct 21 (PIA)----Only burned posts and a portion of the wall was left when their house was razed to the ground one Monday evening. Mark Anthony Dorado was out when the tragedy took place. The fire practically destroyed most of the family's belongings including his bag containing newly-given sets of school supplies, his shoes, rain coat and a set of school uniform. “I just cried upon seeing our house burning as neighbors d...
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08Oct2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Oct. 8 (PA)-- At least five sites in Northern Mindanao had passed the technical requirements for the Solar Powered Agri-Rural Communities (SPARC) Program. Through the project, SunConnex (SC), a solar power developer based in the Netherlands, will generate electric power from solar energy in agri-rural areas which will be sold to the grid to add to the generating capacity of the Philippines. Engr. Felix Aguhob, Regional Director of th...
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25Sep2011BUTUAN CITY, Sept. 25 (PIA) -- Sen. Manny Villar vowed to grant scholarship to the daughter of Jovie Montesoso, an OFW who was killed in Kuwait on August 5, by allegedly jumping from the eighth floor of the Tara Hotel where she was working as a receptionist. In a recent phone-patch interview during the morning radio program of one of the local radio stations here, Sen. Villar extended his condolences to the bereaved family of the victim and said that he will support the education...
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01Aug2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, Aug. 1 (PIA) – At least 22 beneficiaries of the Overseas Filipino Workers Dependent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) have been named by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) to have come from Misamis Oriental. This figure is actually 32.35 percent of 68, the total number of the OFWDSP beneficiaries in the region, Petrona M. Bergado, Regional Director of OWWA, region 10, said, during today’s awarding of the Notice of Awards to th...
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28Jul2011CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Misamis Oriental, July 28 (PIA) -- Some 1,250 students nationwide are set to benefit from the Overseas Filipino Workers Dependent Scholarship Program (OFWDSP) offered by the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). Petrona Bergado, regional director of OWWA - Region 10, said about 68 of these scholars will come from Northern Mindanao. She said the OFWDSP aims to provide opportunity to poor but deserving students to earn a baccalaureate degree or associate degr...
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07Jul2011KORONADAL CITY, July 7 (PIA) -- Graduating elementary students who would like to join the prestigious Philippine Science High School (PSHS) System in School Year 2012 – 2013 have only until July 15 to file their application. Dr. Zenaidan Laidan, regional director of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said, the scholarship is open to all interested Grade 6 or 7 pupils who belong to the top ten percent of the graduating class. A gra...
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18May2011KORONADAL CITY, May 18 (PIA) -- Future has become brighter for 133 high school graduates who have hurdled the screening process of the Kabugwason-Paglaum Scholarship Program (KPSP), the provincial government’s aid to poor but deserving students, for the coming school year. Under the program the provincial government gives financial aid ranging from P15,000 to P27,000 per semester to those who pass the stringent selection process. KPSP Executi...
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18May2011KORONADAL CITY, May 18 (PIA) -- Local government units all over SOCCSKSARGEN Region (Region 12) can still nominate scholars for the second batch of students of the University of the Philippines Manila – School of Health Science Extension Campus in South Cotabato based here. Prof. Amabel Ganzo, campus director of UP SHS-Koronadal, in a press conference at the Provincial Capitol yesterday said, that as of this week, more than 20 slots are still availa...
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03May2011TAYTAY, Rizal, May 3 (PIA) –-- The “Gawad Dangal ng Magulang,” a unique recognition for students in public elementary and secondary schools was launched recently by the Federation of Parents-Teachers Associations (PTA) of Rizal province with the support from Rizal Gov. Jun Ynares, first district Congressman Joel Duavit and Taytay Mayor Joric Gacula. The first of its kind in the province, the award recognizes the sacrifices of students belonging to marginalized families ...
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18Mar2011ZAMBOANGA CITY, Mar. 18 (PIA) -- Learning will be conducive for students and teachers in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay as two newly-completed school buildings will be handed over to them in simple ceremonies on March 22. The turn over ceremony will be held at the school grounds of Tigpalay Elementary School in Tungawan, Zamboanga Sibugay. The initiative is part of the aid package from the Agencia Española de Cooperacion Internacional para el Desarollo (AECID) through the Fundacion Humanism...
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20Jan2011CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Jan. 20 (PIA) – Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona is continuously advocating for the “universal health coverage” for all Filipinos especially for indigents since this is one of President Benigno S. Aquino III’s health agenda during his governance. In a visit to the Center for Health Development 3 (CHD-3) here on January 17, Ona said the Aquino administration targets all Filipinos to be covered by health insurance, rationalizing that w...
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