STAKEHOLDERS in the travel and
tourism industry on Friday want to know if the Civil Aviation
Authority (CAA) has made any move to restore US confidence in
Philippine air carriers.
This developed after the United
States’ Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) included the country on
the list of 21 countries under the restrictive Category 2.
The Commission on Elections (Comolec)
is looking at using the Internet for the registration of overseas
absentee voters (OAV) following Congress approval of the
supplemental budget for the 2010 poll automation.
Deparment of Interrior and Local
Government (DILG) Secretary Ronaldo Puno on Friday ordered the
speedy implementation of a human rights project highlighting the
administration’s efforts to educate marginalized sectors on their
basic rights and access to justice.
THE government would spend more
than P10 billion this year on irrigation, farm-to-market roads and
post-harvest facilities as it moves to secure the country’s
self-sufficiency in food supply by 2013.
Businessman Joey de Venecia 3rd
vowed on Thursday to appeal the decision of the Court of Appeals
(CA) to dismiss his petition for protection from the Arroyo
administration.
The Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) hopes to reduce the communist insurgency problem
in the country to “irrelevance” by 2010, a top official said
late Thursday.
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