The Department of Tourism (DOT) and the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) on Thursday (Aug. 24) sealed a five-year formal partnership to expand opportunities for training and upskilling of tourism workers to meet the demands of the tourism industry post-pandemic.
Government agencies on Friday expressed concerns on national security should the Philippines push through with the proposal of the United States to bring to the Philippines Afghans who had worked with US government in fighting the Taliban.
Capt. Ng and National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) Secretary Guiling Mamondiong, together with PAL Senior Vice President for General Counsel Atty.
(File photo) DAVAO CITY - Muslims in the National Capital Region (NCR) and other parts of the country will start fasting on Saturday after a local cleric claimed to have seen the first crescent moon on Friday. Alem Said Ahmad Basher, an NCR-based cleric, said in a Facebook live that he saw the crescent moon using a telescope during the moonsighting at Manila Bay. The Manila Bay moonsighting was said to have been organized in cooperation with the Imam Council of the Philippines and the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos - NCR. However, in Cotabato City, Mufti Abuhuraira Udasan of the Regional Darul Ifta of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao announced at 8:05 p.m. on April 1 that the fasting for the region's over 4 million inhabitants will start on Sunday. This, after Udasan failed to see the first hilal or the first visible crescent moon after the new moon. Udasan and his team went to the PC Hill, a popular vantage point in the city, to watch for the moon but h