The Philippine Pavilion exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale titled Muhon: Traces of an Adolescent City opens in Bacolod City on February 22 at the University of St. La Salle. The exhibition will run until March 28, 2018.
The opening day features a lecture with the curators, artists and architects in order to initiate a discussion on the future of the country as we continue to build our towns and cities. The talk and the exhibit also aim to elicit views and opinions that discuss the vectors of progress and permanence in relation to corresponding notions of modernity and an emerging identity. The public is invited to be part of the lecture and discussions.
The Philippine Fiber Development Authority (PhilFida) is targeting to plant cotton in at least 660 hectares across the country this year as part of government efforts to revitalize the local garments industry.
PhilFida Executive Director Kennedy T. Costales told the BusinessMirror that the attached agency of the Department of Agriculture (DA) received a P96-million budget from Sen. Loren B. Legarda for its cotton-development project.
The Senate has adopted a resolution expressing its concurrence to the ratification of an international agreement that facilitates multilateral cooperation and enhanced collective capability to suppress cybercrime.
According to Senate Resolution Number 616 sponsored by Sen. Loren Legarda, the Convention on Cybercrime, signed in Budapest, Hungary on November 23, 2001 and signed by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte on December 9, 2016, “remains the sole binding international legal mechanism adopted by countries to address the threats posed by cybercrime”.
Senator Loren Legarda, Chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, today said that the Senate has unanimously concurred in the ratification of five (5) treaties covering the Philippines’ Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAA) with Mexico, Thailand and Sri Lanka, the Cybercrime Convention, and the Agreement on the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO).
Sen. Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, said the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime aims to address the threats posed by cybercrime and facilitates multilateral cooperation and enhanced collective capability to suppress cybercrime.
“Since cybercrime is borderless, simultaneous and persistent, cooperation, coordination, and collaboration with other countries is therefore vital,” Legarda said.
