Posted by: prnews on: September 5, 2009
“It is the teachers time to shine now.”
Zoilo Pinongcos, Jr. of Leganes National High School in Leganes, Iloilo shared this as he was honored as one of the ten awardees of 2009 Metrobank Foundation’s Search for Outstanding Teachers (SOT).
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo conferred gold medallions to Pinongcos and the nine other awardees at Malacañang Palace [...]
Posted by: prnews on: August 19, 2009
State universities and colleges (SUCs) are way behind in rolling out basic systems such as those that would enable students to pay for tuition electronically and retrieve their grades online, according to the House committee on information and communications technology.
To address the problem, Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, committee chairman, has urged SUCs to establish area [...]
Posted by: prnews on: May 25, 2009
To suppress the proliferation of secretly produced sex videos, the Nacionalista Party (NP) led by Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. is pushing for the swift passage of new legislation that would define and penalize the crime of video voyeurism.
“A specific law against video voyeurism would be helpful in reinforcing existing privacy and anti-obscenity laws as well [...]
Posted by: prnews on: May 25, 2009
Video or photo voyeurs who violate the privacy of individuals, or abuse the trust of persons with whom they have a relationship, should be dealt with harshly by the law, Cotabato Rep. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza said Sunday, amid the outrage over the Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal.
“They do not deserve the kid-glove treatment,” Taliño-Mendoza said, [...]
Posted by: prnews on: September 24, 2007
The Philippines should initiate diplomatic talks with China so that the two countries can “jointly abrogate” Manila’s highly contentious $329-million national broadband network (NBN) project that would be installed by Shenzen-based ZTE Corp. using a soft loan from Beijing, Sen. Loren Legarda said.
“The project has become too tainted — too quarrelsome — it is no [...]
Posted by: prnews on: September 9, 2007
Catanduanes Rep. Joseph Santiago, chairman of the House committee on information and communications technology, is pushing for new legislation that would reduce considerably the cost of telephone calls through the aggressive promotion of Internet-based call services.
Santiago has revived the bill seeking to “totally liberalize” Voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP), a service that enables people to [...]
Posted by: prnews on: August 27, 2007
Sen. Loren Legarda has filed a bill seeking to penalize the rapidly emerging crime of “identity theft,” and to compel firms that handle a great deal of restricted personal information, such as banks and credit card issuers, to build in adequate precautions to prevent any breach of the right of privacy of individuals.
Under Senate Bill [...]
Posted by: prnews on: August 14, 2007
The House information and communications technology committee intends to push new legislation that will reinforce the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) and give its officers fixed terms “to enhance their independence and insulate them from excessive politics.”
“This has been a lingering issue. The lack of fixed terms has definitely made the NTC unusually vulnerable to too [...]
