ON ITS fifth year, the World Pyromusical Competition will be held throughout the Saturdays of November and December this year.

THE Department of Education (DepEd) on Wednesday signed an agreement with the University of Auckland in New Zealand to train trainers and tutors before they are deployed to teach schoolchildren.

THE 5th National Moot Court Competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) will be held on November 19 and 20 at the Philippine Christian University.

A SCOUT Ranger officer had been designated as commanding general of the National Capital Region Command (NCRCom), the anti-coup force of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Metro Manila.

AFTER more than three decades, former officials of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) still see the agency as relevant as it was when they established it during the Martial Law days.

SOMETIME in the past I received an e-mail from a colleague during my teaching days in the Philippines.

AN OFFICIAL of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), who survived an attack last March by unidentified assailants in Quezon City, was appointed as the new regional director for the National Capital Re

THE Philippine Marines inaugurated the newly constructed Health Center in Barangay Bohe Bessey, Lamitan, Basilan, the Philippine Navy announced Wednesday.

LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas chose to forego a traditional lunch celebration during his installation as the highest Church official of the province Wednesday morning.

THE government of Canada donated Friday to Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) a Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Event Response Equipment in case of warfare.

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) assured that registered voters who do not have biometrics will still be allowed to vote in the May 2010 national and local elections.

THE gala presentation by the Fiber Industry Development Authority (Fida) could be the only fashion show where government officials, international dignitaries, piña and abaca farmers and weavers, and

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will leave on Friday to attend the 15th Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) Summit at the seaside resorts of Cha-am and Hua Hin in Thailand on October 23

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday headed the distribution of relief goods to typhoon victims in Bulacan and her hometown Pampanga.