MANILA-The Philippine Space Agency's (PhilSA's) office will soon rise in the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) in Pampanga province. The cost of the design of the initial buildings and grounds for the 30-hectare complex of PhilSA is over PHP52 million, PhilSA Deputy Director-General Gay Jane Perez told the Philippine News Agency on Saturday. PhilSA recently signed a contract with the T.A.M. Planners Company, PhilKoei Int'l, Inc., and Nippon Koei, LTD. for the site's comprehensive and sustainable master development plan. "PhilSA started only two years ago when I moved from DOST-ASTI (Department of Science and Technology - Advanced Science and Technology Institute) to become PhilSA's employee number 1. It was also the onset of the Covid-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic," PhilSA Director General Joel Marciano Jr. said during the contract signing. That period was challenging, especially in the agency's buildup and mobilization. However, it did not d
Commission on Elections-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano. (PNA photo by Judy Flores Partlow) DUMAGUETE CITY - The Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Negros Oriental is now investigating "misleading information" that the poll body is still accepting applications for voter registration for the May 9 elections. Lawyer Lionel Marco Castillano, Comelec-Negros Oriental provincial election supervisor, told the Philippine News Agency on Thursday that his office has received information about fake news circulating on social media and other platforms that somebody is telling or asking people to register for the upcoming polls. "The Comelec condemns this fake news using the agency's name as we have long since ended our registration of voters," Castillano said in mixed English and Cebuano. He cited Republic Act 8189 or the General Registration and Continuing Registration Act which does not allow the registration of voters 120 d