If it gets the nod of the Provincial Board, Cebu Province will be working with a P2.6 billion budget for 2010, with Social Services getting the lion’s share of the funds.

As the Yuletide season fast approaches, the Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) 7 is urging the public to send their greeting cards early so that it get to their recipients in time for the holidays.

Export businesses in Cebu should aggressively pursue industry clustering as a way to penetrate more foreign markets and boost production of export products, an industry player urged.

Cebu’s already upbeat tourism industry is expected to get a further boost following the recent recognition of a resort-hotel in Mactan Island as the top 16th resort destination in Asia.

Officials of the Philippine Advertising Board informed local officials here that this mountain resort city will be the primary showcase of the 21st staging of the prestigious Advertising Congress from November 19 to 21, 2009 at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority complex in Zambales.

The coastal bodies of water in Western Pangasinan are free from the toxic red tide, according to Shellfish Bulletin No. 24 issued by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources last week, it was reported Saturday.

The three big infrastructure projects being undertaken by the city government will further propel the tourism industry to unparalleled growth.

President Arroyo has cited this Freeport’s strong infrastructure capabilities in telecommunications, Information and Communications Technology and the Business Process Outsourcing industry saying, “nothing beats Clark.”

Some 2,000 civilian volunteers took their oath as members of a new police unit which will help police and military authorities protect their respective villages in Sulu Province from rebel attacks.

Concerned over the alleged undeterred registration of “flying voters” in this city and Lanao del Sur, local leaders said the problem will be an “acid test” to the new Comelec leadership’s promise to minimize if not eradicate frauds in the first automated electoral process in 2010.

The Department of Agriculture is slated to launch on November 9 its $6.3 million conservation project to prioritize the island’s biodiversity.

Health Secretary Francisco Duque has released P13.5 million for the renovation of the General Santos City District Hospital to compliment the expansion project.

The city government here ordered at least 300 informal settlers within the over 7.4-hectare open dumpsite in Barangay Irisan so that it could temporarily use the space as a dumping area.

A vice governor allied with Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III’s Liberal Party has deserted his group and joined the Nacionalista Party (NP) of Sen. Manuel Villar Jr.

Provincial officials, community elders, and Japanese embassy officials will lead the burning of over 1,000 pieces of bones believed to be those of fallen Japanese soldiers who died during the hostilities between the American and Filipino soldiers on one hand and the Japanese Imperial Army on the other in sacred rites in Barangay Uha, Kiangan town on November 21-22, 2009.

The top Philippine Army official of Region 8 has lauded the provincial government of Leyte for its support to the Social Integration Program of the national government.

The Dangerous Drugs Board has challenged local chief executives and heads of government-owned and controlled corporations to implement the drug-free workplace program as mandated under the new anti-drug law.

The Region 7 office of the Department of Agrarian Reform has recently re-oriented its officials on the implementation of the said law to fast track its services.

Opposition leaders in this city recently launched an advocacy aimed at uniting the north and south districts here to further provide basic services to the Cebuanos.

Political leaders in Basilan Province led by Gov. Jum Akbar formally took their oath as members of the merged party Lakas-Kampi-CMD.