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ArticleMARCOS TO SUMMON CHINESE ENVOY OVER ‘THREAT’

PRESIDENT Ferdin­and Mar­cos Jr. said on Fri­day he intends to meet with Chinese Ambas­sador Jing Quan over the envoy’s remark that China can “eas­ily win” by using force. Quan has said in a state­ment that China would win eas­ily a con­flict against...

ArticleFin­ance vet­eran named new SSS chief

PRESIDENT Ferdin­and Mar­cos Jr. has named fin­ance and invest­ment vet­eran Vic­tor Alf­onso Lim­lingan as the new pres­id­ent and CEO of the Social Secur­ity Sys­tem (SSS). Lim­lingan takes over from Robert Joseph de Claro, who was appoin­ted by the...

ArticleFood prices still Filipi­nos’ top con­cern, sur­vey finds

AFFORDABLE food prices are still the biggest con­cern Filipi­nos want the national gov­ern­ment to address, accord­ing to a Pulse Asia sur­vey in Septem­ber com­mis­sioned by the Strat­base Group. The Sept. 17 to 23 sur­vey found that 35 per­cent of...

ArticlePag-IBIG wel­comes DMCI as hous­ing part­ner

THE Pag-IBIG Fund, form­ally known as the Home Devel­op­ment Mutual Fund, partnered with DMCI Homes on Fri­day, as part of the “gov­ern­ment’s con­tinu­ing efforts to expand hous­ing oppor­tun­it­ies” under the Expan­ded Pam­bansang Paba­hay Para sa...

ArticleThe Ombuds­man may be build­ing its own defeat

ArticleFrom pixel to paper

WRITING in the classroom is mak­ing think­ing vis­ible. It mat­ters because it turns assess­ment into obser­va­tion. When stu­dents write out­side super­vi­sion, the pro­cess is hid­den: The teacher sees the final product but not the think­ing path....