President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is all smiles as she admires the intricately woven baskets or bayong made of water lilies from the Laguna de Bay after the launching ceremonies of the enhanced price and supply monitoring project of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). (OPS-NIB Photo)
MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will ask the government [...]
Written on April 27, 2009 | Posted in
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will leave next week for another foreign trip to Egypt and Syria in what Malacañang described as a “mission of peace and interfaith dialogue.”
Press Secretary and Acting Executive Secretary Cerge Remonde said the President will be leaving on May 1 for a working visit in Cairo and a state visit in Damascus.
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BILLBOARDS in major thoroughfares nationwide were granted another two hours to open their lights.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo approved the amendments to Executive Order (EO) 774, allowing outdoor advertisement to stay lighted until 11 p.m. instead of 9 p.m.
According to Public Works Undersecretary Rafael Yabut, overall chief of Task Force Baklas Billboard, the extension was given in [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Monday enjoined the youth to uphold the values of sportsmanship and teamwork, which she said is important in light of the global financial crisis that the world faced.
Arroyo, in opening the 2009 Private Schools Athletic Association (Prisaa) national games at the University of Nueva Caceres in Naga City, also urged the [...]
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LOVE one another and risk all for the truth.
This was the gist of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Easter message for Filipinos, which she released while attending the 14th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) summit in Thailand.
“We must love each other and risk our all for the truth, because God commands us so; and Christ did [...]
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is all smiles as she shakes hands with Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein before the start of their Bilateral Meeting at the Royal Cliff Grand Hotel in Pattaya, Thailand on Friday (April 10). (OPS-NIB Photo)
MANILA — The protests that forced a standoff at the venue of the Asian summit in Thailand [...]
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo shakes hands with Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Centennial Terminal 2 in Pasay City before leaving for Thailand to attend the Asean Plus and East Asian Summits that will start tonight (April 10, Good Friday). (OPS-NIB Photo)
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo left Friday afternoon for another foreign trip [...]
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President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo gestures as she listens to Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Lito Atienza’s weekly report on climate change. (OPS-NIB Photo)
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday appealed to Chinese-Filipino businessmen to help government keep the economy growing despite the global economic crisis.
Arroyo, in her speech at the 27th biennial convention of the [...]
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PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law Wednesday the amendment bill of the “Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES).”
SPES aims to strengthen and expand the current coverage of the employment program for poor students, and ensure the protection of their rights during employment.
Arroyo signed Republic Act (RA) 9547 in the presence of some 4,500 [...]
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