The National Health Insurance Program (NHIP) or in short PhilHealth with its current theme: ?Kalusugan ng lahat,PhilHealth ang katapat? has aimed to provide a universal coverage of at least 85% of the entire 90M Filipinos by the year 2010.

The commentary of Ricardo Ma. Nolasco, PhD ?Pilipino, Filipino, Tagalog? published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nov.15, 2008) implied that the evolution that a chosen national language like Tagalog has undergone is only in name but not in its element or substance. From Pilipino, the name use in school as a subject, and Filipino as citizenship, then Filipino as both a subject and citizenship. And lastly Tagalog as the dominating base being chosen as the national language.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the November 2008 Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) result. Among the 88,649 nurses who took the exam, 19 examinees were product of the College of Maasin. Among those who took the exam nationwide, 39,455 examinees passed which is 44.51%. And those coming from College of Maasin, only 4 of them failed.
For the complete list of passers, please visit “November 2008 Nursing Board Exam Result“.

The Saint Joseph College, during the first inter-collegiate sports fest held recently here has grabbed the overall championship crown in all 6 games competitions with a total score of 280.

If Manny Pacquiao is sensitive enough to perceive the reason why some politicians and businessmen want him to run as Congressman, is that they are only riding on his popularity status. They seem not to look into consideration how the low-graded boxer would fare in his uncharted and unknown course.