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==4Ps help young people realize their dreams - DSWD== | |||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=551335515581 | |||
*Sunday, April 29, 2012 | |||
:by Joelyn G. Baluyut | |||
SUBIC BAY FREEPORT, Zambales, April 29 (PIA) -- The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) helps youth realize and achieve their dreams. | |||
Thus said Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Region 3 director Adelina Apostol during the signing of Memorandum of Agreement with 27 mayors in Central Luzon for the implementation of the said program in their respective localities. The signing was held in Subic recently. | |||
“I remember one beneficiary when I asked what he wanted to be in the future and he responded that he wanted to be like his parents, a garbage collector. But when he was enrolled in 4Ps, his dream changed and now he gets to study through the help of this program,” Apostol said. | |||
“The program doesn’t only focus on giving money to the poor but it will also make them believe that they could go beyond what they are now, that they have to power to reach for their dreams and live a better life,” she explained. | |||
Apostol also noted that “through the implementation of the 4Ps in each barangay, city and provincial level, the solid partnership between them and the DSWD has been established, and now, we are still continuing this because many people would benefit from the program.” | |||
4Ps is a human development program of the national government that provides conditional cash grants to extremely poor households to improve their health, nutrition and education particularly of infants and children aged 14 years old and below. | |||
Its objectives include Social Assistance which is to provide cash assistance to the poor to alleviate their immediate need (short term poverty alleviation) and Social Development that is to break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human capital. (WLB/JGB-PIA3) | |||
==BoI okays power projects== | |||
*Source: http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/04/28/boi-okays-power-projects/ | |||
*Saturday, April 28, 2012 | |||
:by Julito G. Rada | |||
The Board of Investments has approved P62.3 billion worth of power projects in Batangas and Zambales, managing head Adrian Cristobal told reporters Friday. | |||
Cristobal, who also serves as Trade undersecretary, said these projects are the P12.87-billion plant of South Luzon Thermal Energy Corp. in Calaca, Batangas, and the P49.45-billion expansion project of Masinloc Power Partners Co. Ltd. in Masinloc, Zambales. | |||
“The two projects will help address the country’s energy supply requirements. The BoI’s goal is to ensure that approved investment projects contribute to long-term inclusive economic growth,” Cristobal said in a news briefing. | |||
The South Luzon Thermal project will use a modern clean coal technology and involves a 135-megawatt coal-fired power plant. It is set to start commercial operations in August 2014. | |||
The expansion of Masinloc project involves the construction of two additional 300-MW units to boost the whole project’s total capacity to 1,200 MW. | |||
==PHL gives P62B worth of power projects the green light== | |||
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/256394/economy/business/phl-gives-p62b-worth-of-power-projects-the-green-light | |||
*Friday, April 27, 2012 | |||
:by VS, GMA News | |||
Two power projects to address the Philippine energy shortfall were approved this week by the Board of Investments, Trade Undersecretary and BOI managing head Adrian Cristobal said Friday. | |||
The projects worth P62.32 billion would be built in Batangas and Zambales, Cristobal told reporters in a briefing. | |||
One is the P12.87-billion South Luzon Thermal Energy Corp. power plant in Calaca, Batangas, and the other is Masinloc Power Partners Co. Ltd.’s P49.45-billion expansion project in Masinloc, Zambales. | |||
"The two projects will help address the country's energy supply requirements,” the trade and investments official said, noting “the BOI’s goal is to ensure that approved investment projects contribute to long-term inclusive economic growth." | |||
The South Luzon Thermal’s power plant would use clean coal technology that includes a 135-megawatt (MW) coal-fired facility that should start commercial operations in August 2014. | |||
Masinloc Power Partners, meanwhile, would build two 300-MW units to boost its total plant capacity to 1,200 MW. | |||
These projects are aligned with government’s 2011 Investment Priorities Plan to attract investments in key industries and achieve inclusive growth, said Cristobal. | |||
The BoI earlier approved the P1.4-billion agribusiness project of Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Foods Philippines Corp. in Pampanga and Tarlac, which would include raising hog parent stock. | |||
According to the BOI chief, the board is now reviewing the procedures investors go through in registering with the agency with a view making the process as simple as possible by lowering the number of required data items to 14 from 52. | |||
The current process "partly contributed" to low approvals in the first quarter of 2012, he said, noting that applicants find the data gathering quite tedious and gave them second thoughts about pursuing the registration. | |||
"Currently, we are pilot-testing the simplified procedures in three sectors, namely agribusiness, housing, and tourism," Cristobal said, noting these sectors are less complicated than the other sectors. | |||
With the simplified procedure in place, BOI "sees an increase in the number of project approvals from April onwards," according to him. | |||
==At ‘Karburo,’ Filipinos fish, laugh, eat, drink with Chinese, Viet fishermen== | ==At ‘Karburo,’ Filipinos fish, laugh, eat, drink with Chinese, Viet fishermen== | ||
*Source: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/34785/at-%E2%80%98karburo%E2%80%99-filipinos-fish-laugh-eat-drink-with-chinese-viet-fishermen | *Source: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/34785/at-%E2%80%98karburo%E2%80%99-filipinos-fish-laugh-eat-drink-with-chinese-viet-fishermen | ||
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Lacbain said the dispute should be settled through diplomacy and not through arms. | Lacbain said the dispute should be settled through diplomacy and not through arms. | ||
If China and the Philippines cannot settle the dispute by themselves, then the best solution is to go the international court, Lacbain said. | If China and the Philippines cannot settle the dispute by themselves, then the best solution is to go the international court, Lacbain said. | ||
==Journalist gets death threats== | ==Journalist gets death threats== | ||