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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

 

Commission on Human Rights watching intensely

DepEd set to launch random drug testing in 15 secondary schools

 
By James Konstantin Galvez And Ira Karen Apanay, Reporters
 
The Department of Education (DepEd) has identified at least 15 secondary schools that will undergo random drug testing on February 2, the agency’s Assistant Secretary for Special Projects Thelma Santos said on Tuesday.

Santos declined to reveal the names of the schools, but said all are in Metro Manila and 15 students would be randomly selected for drug testing.

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O T H E R   R E P O R T S

 

THE House of Representatives will now focus on economic safety net measures, including the proposed adjustments in “sin taxes,” House Speaker Prospero Nograles said.

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UNITED States troops have started showing up in the Bicol region less than three months from the scheduled RP-US Balikatan exercises, but the Defense department says there is nothing wrong with the early arrival of troops in the region.

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Engineering, architecture, nursing and accounting will be a mandatory five-year college courses starting school year 2009 and 2010, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Chairman Emmanuel Angeles said Tuesday.

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Persida Acosta

Dear PAO, 

I married my husband, a seaman, in 2005 and we were blessed with a healthy baby girl that same year.

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