The Makati Medical Center (MMC), the country’s leading healthcare and medical provider, said it will maintain its close to P1 billion expansion program for 2021 they had set even before the pandemic as they move to add more facilities, equipment, and bring its services offsite to serve more...
Cebu Pacific (CEB) has refunded P2.7 billion out of P4.8 billion total requests for its COVID-19-related cancelled flights, the airline reported last night (November 5, 2020). The airline continues to process a high volume of requests and has refunded an additional P300 million since its last...
The P30-billion Cebu-Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX) is now 61 percent complete in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. CCLEX links mainland Cebu from Cebu City to the Municipality of Cordova in Mactan Island. The overall engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) progress of the project...
Here are some of the more exciting titles announced at the Netflix Anime Festival 2020 Sixteen new anime titles. That’s how many Netflix has in store for otaku all over the world. But excluding the anime version of Trese , which is what excites Pinoys the most, and the already leaked and...
Excluding extraordinary and non-recurring items, Belle Corporation's consolidated recurring net income of P680 million for the 2020 period was 75 percent lower than the comparable figure of P2.67 billion for the 2019 period. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said it...
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is incentivizing local enterprises for them to adopt to digital technologies because while majority of enterprises are aware of the need to transform digitally many of them are facing various constraints, particularly the lack of capital. DTI...
PSX_20201015_055523 Download (Karrie Ilagan, Managing Director for Cisco Philippines) Digitalizing small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Philippines could add P1.17 to P1.36 trillion ($26 to $28 billion) to the economy by 2024. This is vital to the country's post COVID-19 recovery, according to...
The Department of Finance (DOF) said that local airlines have yet to submit the final loan plan to activate their P700 million financial support earmarked under the government’s economic stimulus programs. (Manila Bulletin File Photo) Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the amount of...
In the next couple of years, Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC) intends to complete P28 billion worth of road infrastructure “stimulus projects" primarily meant to contribute to the government’s quick economic recovery impetus. (NLEX Corporation / MANILA BULLETIN) MPTC named four...
Del Monte Pacific Limited reported a net loss of US$3.2 million for the first quarter of its fiscal year 2021 ending July, lower than the net loss of US$38.3 million in the same period last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said losses were lower since there were no...
Cathay Pacific launches its first FB Messenger customer service in the Philippines Is it weird that airlines, of all transactions, lack social media services? They don’t, but major concerns, like a delayed flight or lost baggage more often than not, get stuck in the pile of unread messages....
Sharifa Akeel, the Filipino-Qatari beauty queen who was crowned Miss Asia Pacific International in 2018, has penned an open letter on Facebook following accusation she is Maguindanao Second District Representative Esmael “Toto” Mangudadatu ’s alleged mistress. The accusation came from none...
