Authorities shut down an alleged major illegal manufacturing and distribution network specializing in unregistered and hazardous cosmetic products, seizing various illicit items during a raid in Antipolo City, Rizal. The operation was conducted by a joint enforcement team composed of the National...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE With the bill granting the president emergency powers regarding the energy crisis already passed, the president should not just reduce the excise tax on fuels. Rather, he should totally remove it, even temporarily, to give the people some breathing space amid the tightening...
The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has issued an administrative order that will pave the way for the implementation of the P1 terminal fee for Roll on-Roll Off vehicles carrying raw and unprocessed agricultural products in all the agency’s supervised and managed ports. The existing Ro-Ro...
Teenagers as young as 13 to 15 years old have already tried vape products in different flavors such as cookies and cream, and even pistachio. Health experts disclosed this during a hearing of the Senate Committee on Health and Demography on the various pending measures that sought to either ban or...
Filipino lawmakers are pushing a measure to unify the country’s split-tier tax system for vapor products, seeking to recover billions of pesos in lost government revenue. HB 5207, backed by more than 40 lawmakers including House Deputy Speaker Kristine Singson-Meehan and 4 other solons who filed...
Amid recalls abroad triggered by potential asbestos contamination, toxics watchdog EcoWaste Coalition has urged the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to assess the safety of colored sand play products currently being sold in the country. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), asbestos...
State-run Planters Products Inc. (PPI) has returned to the fertilizer market after more than four decades of hiatus, bringing relief to thousands of farmers seeking to lower production costs, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. PPI, an attached corporation of the DA, entered the fertilizer...
Aside from lead cornerstone investors International Finance Corp. and Asian Development Bank (ADB), Maynilad Water Services, Inc. has signed cornerstone investment agreements with 10 more international and domestic institutions led by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, acting...
Planters Products, Inc. will conduct its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 2:00 P.M., at the PPI principal office, located at 109 Esteban Street, Legaspi Village, Barangay San Lorenzo, Makati City, or via Zoom videoconference. Stockholders who opt to participate via...
Planters Products, Inc. will hold its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at 2:00 P.M., at the PPI principal office, located at 109 Esteban Street, Legaspi Village, Barangay San Lorenzo, Makati City, or via Zoom videoconference. Stockholders who opt to participate via...
Senator Raffy Tulfo urged the new leadership of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to clean up the agency, particularly its Accreditation Unit, which screens and approves brokers handling the country’s agricultural imports and exports. During the Senate Committee on Agriculture hearing on Monday, Sept....
Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan on Monday, September 1 pushed for the full implementation of the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act saying the continuous failure to uphold the law undermines the country’s food security and emboldens criminal networks to profit at the expense of the...
