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Rainy season begins—PAGASA THE state weather bureau on Friday officially declared the start of the rainy season, marked by the rains brought about by Super Typhoon Betty and the southwest monsoon (habagat). PAGASA added the El Niño phenomenon may begin in the "next couple of months," and may persist until the first
quarter of 2024. "El Niño increases the likelihood of below-normal rainfall conditions, which could bring negative impacts (such as dry spells and droughts) in some areas of the country. However, enhanced Southwest Monsoon season may also be expected, which may
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Marcos launches eGov Super App Mobile platform to boost ease of doing business, lessen corruption in gov't
By Vince Lopez
HE government on Friday launched the eGov Super App, a one-stop-shop platform for national and local government services that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said will provide the public with hassle-free transactions and curb corruption.
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"This is what we are pushing for. This is what e-governance is about -- to bring it all together, to make it simple and available and accessible," President Marcos said as he congratulated the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) for launching the eGov Super App at the Palace. "I am very, very happy that we are going in this direction. There is another part of this that is extremely important, that… sometimes we do not talk about, and that is the lessening of corruption," Marcos added. Marcos said it was important to digitalize government services to make them Next page
MOBILE ONE-STOP-SHOP. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. leads the launching of the eGov Super App at the Palace on Friday, June 2, 2023. In his speech, Mr. Marcos said the online platform would eliminate corruption and make public transactions easier and more convenient. Joey Razon
Gov’t backs Paleng-QR cashless payments By Vince Lopez THE administration is 100 percent behind a program developed by the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), which aims to maximize the use of digital payments using devices such as mobile phone apps in markets and tricycle hubs.
STRONGER TIES. Speaker Martin Romualdez and his counterpart, South Korea National Assembly Speaker Kim Jin-pyo, exchange tokens of appreciation during a dinner hosted for the House delegation to the ASEAN-Korea Leaders Forum in Jeju, Korea. Romualdez also gave Kim a signed copy of House resolution No. 82 which seeks to further strengthen bilateral relations through the Philippines-Korea Parliamentarians Friendship Association. Ver Noveno
Speaker urges closer ASEAN-Korea ties By Maricel V. Cruz SPEAKER Martin Romualdez has asked leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and South Korea to work closer together for peace, stability, and prosperity in the region. Romualdez made the call during the opening ceremony of the
ASEAN-Korea Leaders’ Forum held at the Jeju International Convention Center (ICC) in Jeju Island, Korea on Thursday. The Speaker led the delegation of the House of Representatives to the forum. Other prominent personalities who graced the forum include Korean Next page
‘7m Pinoys have chronic kidney disease’ AT LEAST 7 million Filipinos are suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) as of 2021, with one Filipino every hour getting the disease. In a media forum on Friday, Philippine Society of Nephrology fellow Dr. Vimar Luz said the figure is based on the extrapolation report of the National Kidney Institute from data collected since 2016.
“In Asia, we comprise about 25 percent of the region’s contribution to the 840 million global number of those with CKD as of 2021. Based on estimates, this will have an increase of about 3 percent in the span of 3 years,” he said. CKD is a condition where the kidneys are damaged and are unable to filter blood the way they should. Next page
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. expressed his support for the Paleng-QR Ph initiative on Thursday during a meeting at the Palace with the Private Sector Advisory Council (PSAC) Digital Infrastructure Cluster to discuss recommendations to further improve the country’s digital infrastructure. "President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. fully supports the Paleng-QR Ph Plus Ini-
tiative and wants government agencies to educate Filipinos on the use of e-wallet and other digital payment apps to prop up economic activities, particularly with the inclusion of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs)," said Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil. PSAC member Ernest Cu, president and CEO of Globe Telecom, who met Next page
Marcos, NEDA ‘Suspects in Degamo case offered Board approve P8m each to recant testimonies’ TPLEX extension By Rey E. Requejo and Charles Dantes
By Vince Lopez THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board on Friday approved the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) Extension Project. This is the fastest unsolicited proposal approval – from its submission on March Next page
JUSTICE Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla on Friday said detained suspects were allegedly offered P8 million each to recant their testimonies that implicated Rep. Arnolfo A. Teves Jr. in the March 4 killing of Gov. Roel Degamo and nine other people. “That was the intelligence information we received inside the National Bureau of
Investigation on the money being offered so that they would recant their original statements,” Remulla said during an interview with CNN Philippines. Remulla said the money was offered by former Department of Justice undersecretary Reynante Orceo, the legal counsel of Marvin Miranda, who has been tagged as “co-conspirator” with Teves in the killings. “If I am not mistaken, the first report Next page
PH Press Institute, Novartis, ICanServe team up to enhance breast cancer info RECOGNIZING the key role of media in health literacy promotion, Novartis Healthcare Philippines, Philippine Press Institute (PPI), and ICanServe Foundation have signed a memorandum of agreement to organize a workshop that aims to help local journalists gain a deeper understanding of breast cancer. The MOA is supported by the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Association of the Philippines (PHAP) Next page
MEANINGFUL PARTNERSHIP. Philippine Press Institute chairman Rollie Estabillo (4th from left) and Novartis Philippines President Joel Chong (4th from right) firm up a partnership agreement together with the ICanServe Foundation to conduct a seminar for journalists on reporting on breast cancer. Also present during the signing of the memorandum of agreement were (from left) PPI Executive Director Ariel Sebellino, PPI Seminar Director Joyce Pañares, Novartis Communications Head Christine Fajardo, ICanServe Foundation Founding President Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala, PHAP Public Affairs Head Marian Pausanos, and PHAP Executive Director Teodoro Padilla.