RIZAL PROVINCE – The provincial government is transforming the parents of students in public schools here into “super moms” and “super dads” as they undergo training on disaster management preparedness as part of the risk reduction measures in case disasters such as the great flood from tropical storm “Ondoy” last year.
This came as Rizal Governor [...]
With the opening of a new facility for neglected and abandoned older persons in Tanay in Rizal province, the Social Welfare department is urging the private sector to help government efforts in setting up care facilities.
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) acting Secretary Celia Capadocia- Yangco pointed out a growing concern for the care [...]
Taytay, Rizal – Around 500 entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs from Batangas, Cavite, Laguna, Quezon and Rizal on April 27 flocked to the SM Event Center, SM in Taytay, Rizal to learn the rudiments of starting a successful business.
Brought by the Department of Trade and Industry in Calabarzon and in collaboration with the Philippine Center [...]
Rizal Arts Festival will be launched on February 24, 2010. The exhibit will run until March 13, 2010.
Featuring:
Nemiranda’s Art camp
Rizal Bonsai Club
Eastern Rizal Photographers
Couturiers from Taytay, Rizal : Gener Gozum and Merlino Cruz
Street Graffiti by the Neo Angono Artists
Tattoo Icon, Butch Bautista
and a various artists and art groups from the province of Rizal
and internationally renowned [...]
THERE ARE no earthquakes in a perfect world. Too bad we don’t live in such a place, as the staggering scope of the destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, reminds us.
In more ways than one, the geological history of the Philippines is similar to that of the island of Hispaniola, where the sovereign states of Haiti and [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Airsoft gun owners on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to exempt airsoftToy Gun Ban guns from a nationwide election gun ban imposed by the Commission on Elections.
In a 14-page petition, lawyer Reynante Orceo, founder of Easternbloc Airsoft Philippines, asked the Supreme Court to declare as unconstitutional a provision in Comelec Resolution No. [...]
Mitsubishi Motors Philippines (MMPC) closed 2009 with sales of 23,247 units, accounting for an impressive 32.5-percent growth compared to its previous year’s sales of 17,539 units.
With this sales performance, MMPC also managed to improve its market share from 14 per cent in 2008 to 17.6 per cent in 2009, to [...]
OFFICIALS OF TAYTAY TOWN IN RIZAL province said they have started drafting their own city charter in preparation for their bid for cityhood this year.
Taytay Mayor Joric Gacula said the local government was “serious” in its campaign to become the second component city in the province after Antipolo City, and has started “spadework toward the [...]
THE government should extend subsidies, such as input subsidy and preferential tariff similar to those given to chemical agriculture, to develop the organic-farming industry.
Minus the subsidies to organic farming, the government can consider removing funding support to chemical agriculture to “level the playing field,” Pablito Villegas, member of the board of trustees of the Organic [...]
MANILA, Philippines – Lopez-led Manila Electric Co. will source clean energy from Montalban Methane Power Corp.’s (MMPC) 8.19-megawatt renewable power generating plant in Rodriguez, Rizal, raising its clean and renewable energy portfolio.
In a statement, Meralco said the contract for the supply of electricity is its
“expression of support” to Republic Act No. 9513 signed by President [...]
