CIDG gets new chief in latest PNP reshuffle
May 2, 2024
The US-based technology giant Apple has become the first company with a USD3 trillion stock market value. Apple, whose stocks increased by three times since the beginning of the pandemic, gained a value of about 3 percent on Monday. On the first transaction day of 2022, the company’s shares hit USD182.88 to hit the market value of USD3 trillion. Microsoft, with a USD2.5 trillion stock market value, and Alphabet, with USD1.9 trillion, followed Apple. Apple hit the USD1 trillion mark in August 2018 and USD2 trillion in August 2020. Source: Philippines News Agency
The delivery of the needed food and non-food items to residents hit by Typhoon Odette in the Caraga Region remains unhampered. The Department of Social Welfare and Development – Caraga (DSWD-13), in a statement Tuesday, said 300 family tents and another 300 rolls of laminated sacks were delivered to the Province of Dinagat Islands on Monday. The non-food items will help the affected families provide temporary shelters, especially those who lost their houses during the onslaught of the typhoon. “The 300 family tents and the 300 rolls of laminated sacks were equally divided to the municipalities of Cagdianao, Dinagat, and
The Senate will look into the proliferation of unauthorized bank transactions and text messages offering non-existent jobs that victimize unsuspecting Filipinos. Resolution No. 961, filed by Senator Win Gatchalian, seeks an inquiry with the end goal of strengthening the Data Privacy Act, Cybercrime Prevention Act, New Central Bank Act, and other related laws. In a statement on Tuesday, the senator cited the need for a more comprehensive investigation to enable legislators to come up with solutions that will address the public’s concern over breach of their personal data. The Senate can also ascertain if banks, business establishments, and concerned regulatory
The Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MBHTE-BARMM), through its Education Facilities Section, has turned over a PHP4.2-million school building to the Schools’ Division of Maguindanao II. In a statement Tuesday, MBHTE Minister Mohagher Iqbal said the modern single-story, two-classroom flagship building was turned over to the Ambolodto Elementary School Annex in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao. “The turnover was held Monday, the first working day of 2022 for educators in the region,” Iqbal said. Aside from the building, he said, learning materials were also given to the educators to improve teaching
The Bar Examination will push through this month amid calls to cancel it for the third straight year due to the pandemic and the destruction caused by Typhoon Odette in December. The Supreme Court (SC) announced Tuesday that the Bar exam with revised coverage will be held on January 23 and 25, with examinees taking four sets of examinations, pro hac vice (for this occasion only). For the first time, the exam will be held in multiple sites. Previous Bar exams were held for four Sundays with two subjects each and at the University of Santo Tomas as the venue
Mayor Evelio Leonardia has ordered heightened border controls after the city reported a case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) Omicron variant involving a visiting overseas Filipino worker (OFW), who arrived here on December 31. Considered as recovered, the 38-year-old patient from Mindanao, a cruise ship worker who flew in from Miami, Florida, came to Bacolod to be with his wife, a native of Pampanga, who is working in a business process outsourcing firm. “This is apparently not a local case. This is an imported one based on the accounts made by the Department of Health (DOH) and other experts.
