(File photo) MANILA - Officials from the Department of National Defense (DND) and Department of Finance (DOF) confirmed that the Duterte administration's proposed reform of the military and uniformed personnel (MUP) pension system will only apply to new entrants in the service. In a statement Monday, DND spokesperson Arsenio R. Andolong stressed that the reform aims to create a more financially sustainable MUP pension system. "While the versions in Congress and Senate have yet to be finalized, the reform intends to control the looming PHP9.6 trillion worth of unfunded pension liabilities, which may continue to grow if the current scheme prevails," he added. The DOF has also cited that the MUP pension reform is about saving the pension system and is crucial to the country's post-coronavirus pandemic fiscal and economic recovery. In a radio program last week, Valery Joy Brion, DOF spokesperson on the MUP pension reform, explained that the Senate's discussions on the
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THE PHILIPPINES is studying a plan to set up a vaccine development center and may assign production to the private sector under a private-public partnership (PPP) deal, according to the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).
Officials of the agency had met with their counterparts in the Health and Trade departments to fine-tune the proposal that will be submitted to President Rodrigo R. Duterte this week, DoST Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña told an online news briefing on Monday.
“We studied a number of vaccine development and manufacturing in Asia and we want to study the models adopted by Thailand and India further,” he said in mixed English and Filipino.