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| More Filipinos visit PNoy's website |
Manila (23 August) -- Since its launch last week, President Benigno S. Aquino III's website (www.president.gov.ph) has been visited by some 20,000 Filipinos here and abroad, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Herminio Coloma said on Sunday.
In a press briefing aired over state-run dzRB, Coloma said the bulk of the website's "hits" came from overseas Filipinos working and living in 94 countries around the world.
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| President Aquino to embark on U.S. road trip next month |
MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno S. Aquino III recently confirmed that he will be embarking on a United States “road trip” next month to invite potential investors to the country.
In an interview, President Aquino said he will be meeting with Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima “who just came back from setting the ground work for the U.S. trip” to discuss the particulars on how “to make the country even more attractive to all of these investors in the hopes of generating all of those jobs.”
The President said that he was informed by U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Harry Thomas upon their first meeting that “there is a serious interest on the part of investors to know what’s in store for them if they invest in the Philippines.”
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| Filipino students win 69 medals in int’l math contests |
By Jonathan M. Hicap
MANILA, Philippines –Filipino math wizards are on a roll, winning medals in international competitions one after the other.
The whiz kids brought home a combined 69 medals from two tough math competitions in China and Taiwan recently.
The students won six silver medals and 63 bronzes in two contests -- the 2010 China Junior High School Math Olympiad, in Tianjin, China; and the Hua LoGeng Golden Cup Mathematics Invitational Competition in ChangHua, western Taiwan, said Dr. Simon Chua, president of Mathematics Trainers Guild-Philippines (MTG), who coached all the contestants.
In the Hua LoGeng contest, named after Hua LoGeng, one of China’s greatest contemporary mathematicians, the Philippines bagged four silvers and eight bronzes.
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By Paolo Montecillo
MANILA, Philippines – Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) has assured its passengers that its flights would proceed as scheduled, despite threats of work stoppages by two labor unions representing the bulk of the company’s workforce.
In a statement, PAL president and chief operating officer Jaime J. Bautista assured passengers that labor strikes—especially in public utilities like PAL—do not happen overnight.
“There is a legal process involved which all parties must respect and adhere to, before any lockout or strike can materialize,” he said.
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| Noy swears in new Supreme Court justice |
By Delon Porcalla
MANILA, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III recently administered the oath of office of his first appointee to the 15-man Supreme Court (SC), expressing optimism that the much-needed reform in the judiciary would speed up.
Aquino acknowledged that while SC Justice Ma. Lourdes Aranal-Sereno may have been a schoolmate at the Ateneo, it was her “awe-inspiring” credentials that compelled him to appoint her.
“We’re both Economics majors but to be honest, I don’t really recall having met her or debated with her, or being in the same class with her,” he said.
Sereno was Aquino’s senior at the Ateneo de Manila University. She graduated in 1980, while the President left in 1981. She was executive director of the Asian Institute of Management’s Policy Center prior to her appointment.
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