May 04
Dubai: The city will have the largest number of supertowers - buildings that rise more than 100 habitable floors - as five more will be added to the seven under development, Gulf News has learnt.
The new supertowers are part of a cluster of 11 projects worth Dh25 billion to be built in a major master-planned development that will be announced in October.
“All five supertowers will be about 600 metres tall - rising more than 100 floors. These are some of the most unique projects incorporating the latest building technologies and consuming up to 60 per cent less energy,” Adrian Smith, who designed Burj Dubai - currently the world’s tallest tower - told Gulf News in an exclusive interview.
His firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architects, is designing the projects.
Thirteen supertowers are currently under development worldwide, including seven in Dubai. The five new ones will change the equation heavily in favour of the emirate.The supertowers already announced in Dubai include Al Burj, Burj Al Alam, Princess Tower, Marina 101 and Pentominum.
May 01
President Arroyo signed Thursday an executive order granting a 10-percent salary increase for government workers effective July.
Mrs. Arroyo made the announcement after attending a wage board meeting in San Fernando, Pampanga. Earlier, the President attended another wage board meeting in Quezon City.
Apr 27
It was March 12, 2008 when this scandal happened. From CEBU International Airport we go directly to SM Cebu Travel Lounge to leave our baggage there. We have deposited our baggage there because we believe that this place is safe. At 7:00 pm, we came back to that lounge and to my surprise my baggage were forcefully opened, pad locked were already broken and so with the combination lock. I and my colleagues were very upset of what had happened. We immediately complained it to the person in-charge there but nothings happened. They told us “Maam, sorry kayo of what had happened, wla jud me kabalo ani, sigurado jud mo Maam na locked na inyo baggage?” Wow! What a question? Obvious ba, gkan me sa Airport, gkan nag byahe. “As of now Maam/ Sir, wla pa jud me mahatag na action ani ky wla nman jud among Manager, npauli na. Kung pwde lng Maam, ayaw lng sa ni ipaabot sa taas, amo lng ni sa investigate amo mga employee dri”, they added. They gave us an email add with the name of the person to contact. Sabi nila, we will call you Maam pag me updates na, binigay nmin yon mobile number namin, I’ve sent email to their Manager but still we did not received any feedback from them.
Why am I writing this blog guys pra din nman magiging aware yon mga kababayan natin that SM CEBU TRAVEL LOUNGE is not a safe place for our baggage/luggage. Very disappointing, a shameful lounge.
Mar 05
It’s official: Poverty worsened from 2003 to 2006, and the Arroyo administration will almost definitely not achieve its poverty reduction target under its medium-term development plan.
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• Poverty worsens between 2003 and 2006
In a press conference Wednesay, government officials disclosed that poverty incidence increased by 2.5%, from 24.4% in 2003 to 26.9% in 2006.
In 2003, 24 out of 100 families in the Philippines were poor; in 2006, 27 out of 100 families were poor.
Those considered poor are Filipino families of five individuals whose monthly incomes were below P6,274 in 2006.
The actual number of poor Filipino families went up by 16%, from 4 million in 2003 to 4.7 million in 2006.
The actual number of poor Filipinos increased from 23.8 million in 2003 to 27.6 million in 2006, or a 3.8 million increase in the number of poor people. National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Director-General Augusto Santos said he informed President Arroyo about this data Tuesday night through a text message. He also sent her a memorandum on the 2006 Official Poverty Statistics Wednesday morning. Asked what was Arroyo’s response, Santos said: “I have not obtained a response from the President.” Given the bleak poverty figures, the government will not likely meet its target to reduce poverty incidence from 28% in 2004 to between 17-19% in 2010.
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