A community health center in Batangas province’s Lemery municipality that caters to 46 villages with a total population of 93,157 and serves about 150 patients daily was recently improved by SM Foundation Inc. and turned over to local government and health officials.
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Story and photo by Hananeel Bordey / Special to The Market Monitor She’s best known to Filipinos as the former entertainment anchor of the ABS-CBN primetime news program TV Patrol, but model-television host Phoemela Baranda is set to add another job title to her extensive resumé—lean and mean car driver— as she represents the Philippines in the second season of History Asia …
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Story and photos by Alvin I. Dacanay The Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) is celebrating the power of storytelling and revisiting the memorable productions it mounted under its children’s theater program on its golden anniversary in its newest children’s musical, J-mee Katanyag’s Tagu-taguan Nasaan ang Buwan, which opened at the Peta Theater Center in Quezon City on Friday.
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The UP Playwrights’ Theatre (UPPT) will open its 26th theater season, which has “Honoring Defiance” as its theme, with Nick Joaquin’s Fathers and Sons and its Filipino translation—Mga Ama, Mga Anak—by National Artist for Literature Virgilio S. Almario and prize-winning poet-screenwriter Jose “Pete” F. Lacaba beginning September 6, 2017.
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By Gia Catimbang / Special to The Market Monitor If you’re planning to redecorate or refurnish your house’s interiors, prominent entertainment, fashion, lifestyle and media personalities are presenting worthwhile ideas on how to do that with their posh designs of select home spaces in the Urban Filipino Home exhibit, which opened at the Shangri-La Plaza mall in Mandaluyong City on August …
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By Riza Lozada A survey of top businessmen in the country showed a unanimous positive economic outlook mainly as a result of the improved business climate.
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Economic managers bared three flagship projects—the construction of a new terminal for Clark International Airport, the Mega Manila Subway System, and the Philippine National Railways (PNR) North and South rail lines—that President Duterte is banking to ease the local transportation problem.
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The government hopes to raise P30 billion to help fund the planned massive rehabilitation and reconstruction effort for Marawi City through a bond float, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said. The Department of Finance (DOF) has directed the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) to study the possible issuance of debt securities.
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While the Duterte administration has unveiled a 10-point socioeconomic agenda early on in President Duterte’s term, the country’s largest business organization, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), said it wanted to see a more detailed plan on it.On the sidelines of the 2017 Sulong Pilipinas forum, PCCI President George Barcelon told reporters that the private sector would like to …
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The Marawi City crisis, thus far, has a minimal effect on the economy, which is expected to continue its strong growth in the coming years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said in its recent assessment on the economy.
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