NEWS BITES - PRIVATE COMPANIES Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute has been issued a new U.S. patent titled "Low density parity check encoder having length of 16200 and code rate...

House leaders assured on Tuesday that they would work closely with their Senate counterparts for the immediate approval of the 21 priority bills mentioned by President Duterte in his fifth State of the Nation Address (Sona) on Monday. 
 
Majority Leader Martin Romualdez said that upon the instruction of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano, he will work closely with Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri to tackle and harmonize the President's latest priority measures and those that have been mentioned...

Kindly… 
 
Senate President Vicente Sotto III and the honorable members of the Senate; House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano and the honorable members of the House of Representatives; Vice President Maria Leonor Robredo; former Presidents Joseph Ejercito Estrada and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo; Chief Justice Diosdado Peralta and the justices of the Supreme Court; His Excellency [?] and the esteemed members of the diplomatic corps; Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and the members of the Cabinet;...

Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) and newly licensed professionals are now temporarily exempted from complying with the provisions of Republic Act (RA) No. 10912 or the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act. 
 
During a Senate hearing on Monday, the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced it will be releasing a new resolution within the month relaxing the enforcement of RA 10912 for an indefinite period. 
 
Once implemented, the issuance would also mandate the Continuing...

Some professionals may be exempted from the controversial Republic Act 10912, or the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) law, under the proposed revision of the Senate on the legislation's Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). 
 
During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Ralph Recto withdrew his push to repeal the CPD Law, and instead call for the review and revision of the IRR that will make the compliance to the CPD law voluntary for some professions. 
 
'The problem begins with the...

At least 43,000 Filipino professionals have signed an online petition that aims to revisit the requirements for renewing their licenses under Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 
 
At least 43,000 Filipino professionals have signed an online petition that aims to revisit the requirements for renewing their licenses under Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Act, which took effect last March.Junven Lavapie, a 23-year-old civil engineer, told the Inquirer that he created the petition on...

A group of optometrists has raised objections to the operational guidelines drafted by the Board of Optometry for a law requiring practitioners to earn educational 
 
A group of optometrists has raised objections to the operational guidelines drafted by the Board of Optometry for a law requiring practitioners to earn educational units to renew their licenses, saying the board was allowing the retroactive application of points earned prior to the full implementation of the law this month.The...

Joel L. Tan-Torres 
 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016, marks the day that 5,249 individuals join the growing ranks of professional accountants. They will take their oath as professionals with the Professional Regulatory Board of Accountancy (BOA) at the Philippine International Convention Center and other venues to formalize their conferment as the newest batch of certified public accountants (CPAs). They will join the over 172,000 CPAs of the land who are registered with the BOA since 1923, when the...