The Department of Agriculture (DA) said the “root cause” of its billions of unobligated funds last year was the COVID-19 pandemic, following the request of the private sector for the Agriculture Secretary William Dar to explain the findings of Commission on Audit (COA) on the agency’s...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized huge quantity of unmarked diesel in Pampanga following the government’s intensified implementation of the nationwide fuel marking and monitoring program to curb oil smuggling. 34336 In a statement, Customs Commissioner Rey Leonardo B. Guerrero said the bureau...
The San Juan City local government, together with the Department of Information and Communications (DICT), launched on Thursday a vaccination program for the Information Technology – Business Process Management (IT-BPM) sector in its bid to protect more people against COVID-19 and its more...
The NLEX Connector is on track to finish construction by first-quarter next year as the toll road’s first five-kilometer section is now half complete, a unit of the Metro Pacific Tollways announced. NLEX-Connector_Board-Map-scaled J. Luigi L. Bautista, NLEX Corp. president and general manager...
SSS mobile app The number of Social Security System (SSS) members filing unemployment-insurance claims skyrocketed since the pandemic began in March last year, the government’s chief economic manager revealed. Finance Sec. Carlos Dominguez III Since the SSS unemployment insurance benefit (UIB)...
Palay prices in some parts of the country have dipped below the production cost, but the worst is yet to come for rice farmers. Based on the initial survey by Federation of Free Farmers (FFF), palay prices in some parts of the country, including Pangasinan, Tarlac, Mindoro Occidental, Negros...
Imposing higher tax on Filipino billionaires whose fortunes have reached more than one billion pesos may not be a good idea with Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III warning this will only result in capital flight out of the Philippines. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez Dominguez said as...
K-pop superstars and special presidential envoy BTS talked about the youth around the globe and their thoughts amid the ongoing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic that has affected the world for nearly two years at the United Nations General Assembly Hall in New York City on Sept. 20. BTS’...
PMFTC Inc., the local affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), remained the country’s largest cigarette manufacturer in terms of sin tax contributions to government revenue, data from the Department of Finance (DOF) showed. PMFTC Based on the DOF’s analysis, the company behind the...
Malacanang has ratified the Regional Comprehensive Economic Cooperation (RCEP), a mega free trade deal seeking to grant zero duty on goods traded among 15 countries that account for 29 percent of global gross domestic product. The document was ratified by President Rodrigo Duterte on September 2...
The decline in sardines catch in Bicol and Samar is now at an alarming rate, prompting international organization Oceana to urge the Philippine government to prioritize and hasten the implementation of the National Sardine Management Plan. Oceana recently released the results of its study,...
The Department of Health (DOH) played a major role in the procurement by government of allegedly overpriced face masks and face shields at the height of the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic last year. DOH logo virus background Former Commission on Audit Chairperson Grace Pulido Tan pointed...
