P10 INCREASE FOR TAXIS. Taxis are granted an increase of R10 on top of the actual fare. This sticker is now being given to taxi operators by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board headed by Chairman Thompson C. Lantion to enable drivers to collect the new fare. (Mark Balmores)
Int’l conference on teacher education at Manila Hotel today
The country’s leading educators will gather at the historic landmark Manila Hotel starting today, July 24, for the three-day 5th International Conference on Teacher Education (ICTED) with the theme "Teacher Education Reform: Access, Participation, and Quality," organizers said.
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has already spent more than R1 billion in the preparations for the Aug. 11, 2008, elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) but it will not hesitate to postpone this political exercise if Congress approves a law to this effect.
"The Comelec will abide with the decision of Congress, but in the meantime we continue the preparations to be sure we will not be caught with our pants down," Chairman Jose A. R. Melo said.
Melo said the bulk of its expenses are for the full automation of the ARMM elections, for the printing of...
Call center industry eyes 30% growth, 50,000 more jobs
Confident of hitting $ 4.35 billion revenues this year to sustain a 30 percent annual growth and accounting for two-thirds of the total projected 2008 business process outsourcing (BPO) revenues of $ 6.7 billion, the call center industry is focusing on improving efficiencies, ridding of unscrupulous brokers and imposing sanctions against poaching.
Ginebra wins
Chris Alexander outplayed Adam Parada last night as Barangay Ginebra downed Red Bull, 111-104, and took a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven semifinals series in the Smart-PBA Fiesta Cup at the Araneta Coliseum.
Southern Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers and thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
