Philippine Asian News Today

Ryan Jaranilla has the respon­sibility of feeding thousands of Olympic athletes and officials in Beijing falls. Jaranilla is the senior executive chef of the Olympic Catering Ser­vices Project of the Athletes’ Vil­lage in Beijing. The other Filipinos in the kitch­en are Ian Mendoza, a Filipino-Canadian facilities manager, and Norma Frias, a sous chef. Jaranilla said this is definitely not a picnic, as the kitchen will be open around the clock to nour­ish 12,000 of the world’s elite athletes, 3,000 officials and the 7,000 media professionals who will cover the event over the next two weeks. The kitchen is like the United Nations. “I have an executive chef from Belgium, six sous chefs from the US, England and Bul­garia, and 108 Chinese cooks,” he stressed.

PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE -- THE Teachers' Dignity Coalition (TDC) rejected the double-shifting scheme being implemented by the Department of Education (DepEd) to address classroom shortages in Metro Manila. Benjo Basas, TDC president, warned that mandatory implementation of double-shifting scheme on use of classrooms would only result in shorter class hours to the prejudice of the students.
He said this would also mean lesser teachers' hours devoted to students.