Power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) said it will first wait for the guidelines to be issued by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) before serving disconnection notices to consumers that still have arrears or unpaid bills by October 31 this year. “We will await ERC guidelines...
Clarifying reports on the disbursement of the P6 Billion total fund of the 30 th Southeast Asian Games hosting, Philippine Sports Commission Executive Director Atty. Guillermo Iroy, Jr. confirmed that only around 1.4 Billion was released to the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing...
Philippine athletes and officials parade during the closing ceremony of 30th SEA Games at New Clark City, Capas, Tarlac, December 11, 2019. (MB File Photo) THE Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (Phisgoc) clarified on Wednesday that out of the P6 billion government funding for...
The Manila Bulletin Business Section publishes in full the National Privacy Commission Bulletin No. 16 to guide students, parents, guardians, teachers and schools in safeguarding sensitive personal information of pupils as they return to school via online learning. NPC Bulletin No. 16 Privacy...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing for revisions in the guidelines that must be followed by power plant owners and operators so they can prospectively limit the testing and commissioning of their facilities within a two-month span – a phase that the electric generating units would have to...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the planned P41.55 billion initial public offering of broadband service provider Converge Information and Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. In its meeting on September 24, the Commission En Banc resolved to render effective the...
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has initiated a deeper probe on Facebook’s proposed preventive actions regarding the proliferation of suspicious accounts as such activities on the platform continue to threaten the personal data privacy and other security-related rights of its Filipino...
It is dubbed as the “plastic water bottle” of the pandemic. These face masks, which is a “must” these days, are set to become the looming environment crisis that we would face. Though light as a feather (at least four grams each), millions of face masks are discarded each day, some even...
Olympic-bound boxer Irish Magno keeps herself busy on a non-training day and can be seen cutting rice crops in her hometown Janiauay, Iloilo. (Photo from Irish Magno's Facebook account) Olympic-bound boxer Irish Magno finds time to go back to her roots when she takes short breathers from her...
Senator Christopher 'Bong' Go being interviewed by members of the PBA Press Corps at the Smart Araneta Coliseum in file photo. (PBA Images, File) Instead of a leather basketball which he used to swish in from beyond the three-point arc, Sen. Christopher ‘Bong’ Go now has his hands full with...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has approved the shelf registration of SM Investments Corporation’s P30 billion worth of fixed-rate bonds. The Commission En Banc resolved to render effective the registration statement of SMIC for debt...
The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) cited the Supreme Court’s (SC) ruling declaring certain anti-competitive regulations implementing the Contractors’ License Law unconstitutional, paving a level playing field for local and foreign firms to undertake construction activities in the...
