Ateneo University, the University of the Philippines and De La Salle University ranked 24th, 32nd and 44th, respectively, among the top 50 universities in the world in teaching English, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer. The ranking was done by a London-based survey firm, Quacquarelli. More in Inquirer.net.
An endangered monkey-eating eagle which was released into the wild under a conservation program is now fighting for survival after being shot, a Philippine conservation group said Wednesday.
The meter-long (3.3-foot) raptor named “Matatag”, which preys on macaques and other small animals sharing its forest habitat, was shot in Barangay Tambobong in Davao City at the weekend. See more on Interaksyon.com.
The Philippines has overtaken Thailand and Vietnam as the investment destination of choice in Asia among Japanese companies diversifying beyond China, a ranking official of the Japan External Trade Organization (Jetro) told The STAR.
An estimated 1.5 million Filipinos classified as temporary workers in the Middle East are likely to be the first to be displaced if the region’s oil industry starts to shed personnel idled by overcapacity, according to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, Inquirer.net reported.
Filipinos were the most optimistic consumers in Southeast Asia and therefore the most willing spenders in the region toward the close of 2015, survey results from the Nielsen research firm indicated, reports Inquirer.net.
Cheap oil augurs well for domestic manufacturing even as it puts jobs of millions of Filipinos working in oil-producing countries at risk, reports Inquirer.net
Rear Adm. Raquel C. Bono
Rear Adm. Raquel C. Bono was nominated by the Obama administration for promotion to vice admiral of the US Navy and as director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), as announced by Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Friday, January 29, 2016.
If confirmed, Bono will be the highest ranking Filipino American naval officer in the U.S. She is the granddaughter of a Filipino World War II veteran.
Bono and her brother, Rear Adm. Anatolio B. Cruz III, now retired, made history a few years ago for being the first and only siblings of Filipino descent to be flag officers of the US Navy simultaneously, the DHA website reported.
Cedrick Argueta (Source: KTLA)
The son of a Salvadoran maintenance worker and a Filipina nurse got a perfect score on his Advanced Placement Calculus exam, one of only 12 (out of 302,531!) in the entire world to do so. Cedrick Argueta, a 17-year-old senior, has become a celebrity at Abraham Lincoln High School, a school of a little over 1,000 students in the Latino neighborhood Lincoln Heights in Los Angeles, reports NBC News.
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