Amid continuing high vacancy rate and lukewarm overall real estate industry in the country, a buoyant retail sector is expected to provide the much-needed breather with more landlords aggressively undertaking renovations along with more mall completion as foreign brands are testing the local...
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Saturday, May 4, cautioned the public regarding the No Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) cyber attack. With this, the actors approached their victims, claiming they violated the NCAP and directing them to settle the alleged...
The Philippine military had supposedly entered early this year into an agreement with China over the South China Sea, the Chinese embassy in Manila claimed Saturday, May 4. The embassy said that Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Western Command agreed to a "new model" on the management of...
The Department of Health (DOH) on Saturday, May 4, reported a total of 77 heat-related illness cases from Jan. 1 to April 29. Photo from DOH It noted that of these cases, seven were reported deaths. DOH Event-based Surveillance and Response System identified a demographic vulnerability, with...
The defense chiefs of the United States, Australia, Japan and the Philippines have expressed serious concerns over the repeated harassments of China on local vessels, the latest was the incident near the Scarborough Shoal where two Chinese Coast Guard vessels used high-pressure water cannons on a...
(Armed Forces of the Philippines) San Narciso, Zambales——The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is asking members of the media to keep Filipinos informed about the West Philippine Sea (WPS) issue as tensions continue to escalate in the...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel, Jr. has announced plans to extend support and improve technical knowledge for horticultural farmers whose production has decreased due to the effects of El Niño. On May 3, Friday, Tiu Laurel suggested that in order to boost...
Consumers will still feel the deepest financial pain triggered by surging electricity rates due to simultaneous plant outages in the past two weeks, but the Department of Energy (DOE) is urging the distribution utilities (DUs) to tap palliative interest-bearing loan from the Land Bank of the...
President Marcos has urged electricity distribution utilities to tap the Anti Bill Shock Lending Program of the Land Bank of the Philippines to ensure that electricity rates are affordable. Marcos made the directive to the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC)....
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) on Friday, May 3 cited the lack of cybersecurity experts in both private and public sectors in the Philippines. Photo from Pixabay On the sidelines of "HackforGov 2024," DICT Cybersecurity Bureau Director Jose Carlos Reyes addressed...
The Philippines and Cambodia are set to formally sign their double taxation agreement (DTA) after six years of negotiations, the Department of Finance (DOF) announced. In a statement on Friday, May 3, the DOF said that the draft DTA between Manila and Phnom Penh was finalized on April 19, with the...
The Philippines was ranked third among countries that made huge progress in implementing renewable energy initiatives, according to research from the Ocean Science and Technology. The study reported that the country had an overall rank of 81.31 among 81 countries, only next to Chile and China which...
