December, 2021

• 10 December

  Globe and Green Antz partner for single-use plastic avoidance and upcycling

  

  Globe joins hands with Green Antz Builders and its distribution partners in an urgent mission to drive environmental conservation through the responsible disposal and processing of single-use plastic wastes.

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• 10 December

  White Cross is beneficiary of ACPACI’S gift-giving activity

  

  Along Santolan Road in San Juan City stands an Art Deco building where White Cross Orphanage, a child-caring institution accredited by the Department of Social Welfare and Development is housed.

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• 6 December

  POGO now subject to taxes

  

  The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has issued the applicable rules and regulation on taxing Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs), with the collected taxes to be used by government in its COVID response efforts.

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• 6 December

  Free legal aid must be ‘visible, readily available, quick to action’ – Chief Justice

  

  Supreme Court Chief Justice Alexander G. Gesmundo said true dedication to the spirit of public service requires lawyers who render free legal service to be constantly visible, readily accessible and quick to action.

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• 6 December

  Booster shots now open for all adults

  

  Fully-vaccinated Filipino adults are now allowed to receive booster shots, according to the Department of Health (DoH).

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• 6 December

  Pinoy student invents solar windows powered by rotting vegetables

  

  Mapua University student Carvey Ehren Maigue was named the first-ever winner of the James Dyson Award for Global Sustainability.

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• 6 December

  RH, family planning programs crucial to eradicate extreme poverty by 2040—NEDA

  

  Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua bared the government’s reproductive health and family planning programs on Monday at the International Inter-Ministerial Conference on Population and Development organized jointly by the Partners in Population and Development (PPD) and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).  

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• 6 December

  GSIS to release P3.2 B in pensioners’ Christmas cash gift starting Dec 6

  

  State pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) will release the 2021 Christmas Cash Gift amounting to a total of P3.2 billion to its old-age and disability pensioners starting December 6. The benefit is also known to pensioners as their “Christmas bonus.”

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• 6 December

  DOF orders accurate reporting of liabilities by government social institutions via full compliance with proper accounting standards

  

  Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has directed government social institutions (GSIs)— Social Security System (SSS), the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), and Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)—to fully comply with the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards (PFRS) 4 in reporting their social benefit liabilities (SBLs).

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• 6 December

  Philippines on guard against Omicron threat

  

  By Maja H. Dahan Just when the Philippine government began easing restrictions in an effort to bring everything back to normalcy, the Omicron variant of the coronavirus disease has started sowing terror in other parts of the world.

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