Caritas Philippines, an advocacy arm of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), on Thursday, May 9, said the Supreme Court's (SC) decision on red-tagging was a "victory for justice" and a big step towards a safer Philippines. (Photo from Caritas)...
If you’re seeking a BGC spot to hang out with friends for a chill night out and enjoy authentic Chinese dishes and cocktails, look no further than the newly opened Red Lotus by Modern Shang. Located at One Bonifacio High Street, this Chinese resto-bar is the younger, hip outlet of Modern Shang...
With high anticipation that electric bills will drastically spike during the summer months, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) sounded off this early that it will prod the private distribution utilities (DUs) and electric cooperatives (ECs) on staggered billing on the resulting radical rate...
Filipino seafarers will no longer be allowed to be deployed on passenger and cruise ships that would sail through the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden which were earlier declared as high-risk areas and war-like zones amid missile attacks on passing ships in the past months. In an order it issued, the...
Misery loves company - and Mindanao seems not passing up on a chance to commiserate with the electricity service woes of co-consumers in Luzon and Visayas, hence, it has been joining in the appalling power industry chaos. On Wednesday (April 24), system operator National Grid Corporation of the...
Luzon and Visayas grids are having a race against time when it comes to capacity additions – that is if the country has to seriously avoid the dire consequences of threatening power crisis into these two major power grids. The Philippine Independent Power Producers Association Inc. (PIPPA)...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) responded to a fire at the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) on Saturday, April 20, by assisting with the smoke removal and patient transfers. (PRC volunteers assisting patients during the fire on April 20 / Photo courtesy of PRC) Based on a DZBB report on Saturday...
Senator Juan Edgardo "Sonny" Angara believes that the Tatak Pinoy Act can help address the bureaucratic red tape that continues to be a hindrance to the entry of additional investments to the country. According to Angara, this bureaucratic red tape has long been the gripe of foreign investors who...
TGIF is not something that electricity consumers in the Luzon grid can happily look forward to, as they will have to close the week agonizing over new threats of rotational blackouts with Luzon grid being placed on ‘red alert’ for the third time this week. On Friday morning, system operator...
The "prince of darkness" is taking back the crippling journey to Luzon, as the country’s major power grid has been placed on "red alert" for the second time this week – entailing that consumers must prepare for the strike of probable rotational brownouts. System operator National Grid...
After its wide-scale measles vaccination efforts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM), the Philippine Red Cross (PRC) has also intensified its community-wide vaccination education in the region. (PRC volunteers on its way to isolated areas to disseminate information /...
The sudden forced outages at the units 1 and 2 generating units of the Kalayan hydropower plant in Laguna past 4:00pm on Tuesday served as the final trigger to the rotational brownouts that had been scheduled in some provinces in the Luzon grid. By 4:15pm, system operator National Grid Corporation...
