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Friday, September 05 2008 |
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JPEPA needs more clarifications – Kiko |
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By Efren L. Danao, Senior Reporter
The Senate concurrence on the ratification of the Japan-Philippine
Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) is not assured despite the
exchange of notes between the two countries, Senate Majority Leader
Francis Pangilinan said Thursday.
“I have not come to the conclusion that the
side agreement will cure what I feel to be major defects of [JPEPA],”
he said at the Kapihan sa Senado.
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Asean human rights body now becoming a reality
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The long and winding road to the forming of the proposed Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) human rights body seems to be
nearing its end, as the Third Meeting of the High-Level Panel on the
drafting of the Terms...
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Former presidents can be prime ministers.
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HOUSE Speaker Prospero Nograles on Thursday said that former
presidents, including Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada and Corazon Aquino,
are qualified to become Prime Minister under the parliamentary
system of government.
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Heads might roll at CA
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HEADS might roll at the Court of Appeals following the
submission Thursday by the three-man Supreme Court fact-finding
team to Chief Justice Reynato Puno of its reports and findings into allegations of bribery
and impropriety of actions...
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DepEd launches program vs. child labor
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In an effort to bring back more than 800,000 Filipino children back
to school, the Department of Education signed an agreement with the
World Vision Development Foundation to send child laborers back to
the classrooms.
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Science department’s budget cut for 2009
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LAWMAKERS on Thursday scored the Arroyo administration for giving
the Department of Science and Technology a lower budget for 2009.
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FEATURE
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School courses don’t match jobs needed by
industry
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Commission on Higher Education Commissioner Nenalyn Defensor said
Thursday that the growing “mismatch” in the skills of graduates
to current job market requirements, and the increasing problems on
the quality of tertiary education...
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