The Department of Finance (DOF) said the return of information technology-business process management (IT-BPM) employees to on-site work would benefit local micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). In a statement on Wednesday, March 9, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III defended the...
By Liezle Basa Iñigo and Patrick Garcia PANGASINANFormer Vice President and UNA senatorial aspirant Jejomar C. Binay urged the government to cut the red tape and streamline the approval process for new power plants to help prevent a return to the crippling power outages in the 1990s. Binay visited...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) urged authorities to practice due process after community doctor Maria Natividad Castro was arrested. "All our citizens, health workers included, enjoy the constitutional guarantees of due process and presumption of innocence until proven guilty," the DOH said in...
Philippine Ports Authority logo The Confederation of Truckers Association of the Philippines (CTAP) lauded the Philippine Ports Authority (PPA)'s new permitting system, where a single document serves as Accreditation, Permit to Operate and vehicle pass in all PPA and private ports. CTAP, considered...
Business process outsourcing to the Philippines has been a strategic initiative of some of the leading multinational organizations in the world for over 20 years. The country is the number two BPO provider in the world and both the leading and largest provider of voice-related contact center...
Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles defended President Duterte's declaration of a "state of calamity" Tuesday, Dec. 21 over the regions stricken by typhoon "Odette"--a move that was described as "late" by some. Siargao, post-"Odette". (Photo from PCG) Nograles, in a virtual press conference Wednesday,...
•    Craft makers fashion are now in the process of upcycling face shields •    Instead of adding to tons of garbage, those upcycled face shields are made into notebook covers, journal kits, bookmarks, specimen cards So what do we do with the tons of face...
EDITORIAL Pending any “acts of God” that may happen before the Commission on Election (COMELEC) closes its door today, Nov. 15, 2021, we would finally (“finally” is the operative word here) have our official list of candidates for the 2022 national election. All doors and windows close for...
European Union (EU) Ambassador Luc Véron will visit the EU development and humanitarian projects and engage with local interlocutors in Central and Northern Mindanao from November 15 to 19. The European Union flag (Photo by Christian Lue/ Unsplash) In a statement, Véron said that his visit is a...
THE LEGAL FRONT Chancellor, Philja Justice Arturo D. Brion (Ret.) In Parts I and II of this series under Philja’s column “Views from the Ridge,” I outlined the constitutional and statutory foundations and background of Philja’s new Pre-Judicature Program (PJP) – its contribution in...
For President Duterte, the way the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee has been treating its resource persons is worse than being arrested during martial law. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) "Akala ko ba ayaw ng mga taong Pilipinas ng martial law? Eh tignan mo yung ginagawa ng Senado ngayon...
Information Technology Business Process Management (IT-BPM) enterprises in economic zones may implement a work-from-home (WFH) arrangement until the end of the first quarter next year, the Fiscal Incentives Review Board (FIRB) approved. Based on the FIRB Resolution No. 19-21, IT-BPM enterprises...
