Manila Bulletin
August 18, 2010
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has announced that 183 out of 525 examinees passed the Master Plumber Licensure Examination given by the Board for Master Plumbers in Manila, Cebu, and Davao in August 2010.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
Queenie Lee-Chua
August 15 and 22, 2010
IN July, 11 remarkable Filipino scientists, all of them not older than 40, were recognized by the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), for contributions in the physical, natural, and social sciences.
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Sunstar
August 19, 2010
A TOTAL of 1,597 out of 2,300 examinees passed the Physician Licensure Examination conducted by the Board of Medicine on August.
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Malaya
Jocelyn Montemayor
August 19, 2010
PRESIDENT Aquino named banker Emilio de Quiros Jr. as president of the Social Security System and sugarcane plantation owner and farmer advocate Ma. Regina Bautista-Martin as administrator of the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA).
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GMANews.tv
August 16, 2010
A fire of undetermined origin razed a portion of the University of the Philippines’ administration building in Diliman, Quezon City Sunday night.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer
DJ Yap
August 14, 2010
MANILA, Philippines—At the age of 10, on a family outing up north, Banaue Miclat took in the majestic view of the 2,000-year-old rice terraces carved in the Ifugao mountains and realized the import of her name for the first time.
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Manila Bulletin
Ronald S. Lim
August 13. 2010
Puwede or pwede? Siya or sya? Sari-sari or sarisari?
How you spell these Filipino words may not matter to the average Filipino youth who is just trying to pass a note to a classmate. But to linguists and academics pushing for a standard version of the national language, such is a very, very serious matter.
Manila Bulletin
JC Bello Ruiz
August 13, 2010
President Benigno S. Aquino III Friday picked Maria Lourdes Aranal Sereno as his first appointee to the Supreme Court.
Sereno took the Associate Justice position vacated by Justice Renato Corona after his appointment as Chief Justice. Corona replaced retired Chief Justice Reynato Puno.
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Manila Bulletin
August 11, 2010
Rafael Morales (AB 1970 cum laude; LLB 1974 cum laude) was recently elected to the position of Managing Partner of SyCip Salazar Hernandez & Gatmaitan, succeeding Llewellyn L. Llanillo, who retired as a partner of the law firm in August 2009.
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