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The Senate Committee on Finance has accepted Senator Win Gatchalian's proposal for the government to fund the certification of Grade 12 learners under the technical-vocational-livelihood (TVL) track. This, he said, aims to improve the employment prospects of these learners.
It’s been a couple of weeks since I arrived in sunny San Francisco and I am cherishing this bonding time with my family. The Filipino community here is welcoming, as always, but in the past few days, there has been a bit of excited buzz. President Bongbong Marcos will be arriving to attend the APEC CEO Summit. This is an important event where the 21 member-states of APEC convene for extensive discussions concerning global opportunities and challenges that are currently shaping economic, environmental and societal trends within the region.
Thousands of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and members of their family on Friday gathered at The Tent in Las Pinas for the 12th OFW and Family Summit.
SEN. Christopher «Bong» Go urged the government to expedite the repatriation of Filipinos in Gaza.
My youngest, Bella, paid me a visit at RFM the other week. She is helping me promote Go Negosyo’s OFW-focused entrepreneurship event, Balik-Bayan Summit. Our short chat can be viewed on Go Negosyo’s Facebook page.
In time for the annual Undas this coming week, Senator Mark Villar urges the general public to be vigilant on the prices of usual products sold during the celebration of the All Saints and All Souls Day. Some of these products are flowers, candles, and food products which include but are not limited to bottled water, glutinous or sticky rice, and sugar.
Not many people know this, but I once worked as an encyclopedia salesman. Encyclopedias were the Google of my time. Back then, if you wanted to learn more about a subject, you reached for an encyclopedia, searched for the topic from the alphabetized volumes and read about it. After that, I became a dealer of firefighting equipment, sold used clothes (even my own) and started a cotton candy cart in the old Fiesta Carnival in Cubao. All this while I was still in high school.
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