President Duterte inaugurated his eighth port development project in a span of one week in what can be described as part of the last hurrah of "Build. Build, Build" under his administration. President Rodrigo Duterte (center) attends the inauguration of the Puerto Princesa Seaport Expansion Project...
President Duterte has warned the next administration about the possible "return" of illegal drugs if the person placed at the helm doesn't share his stance against narcotics. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during the inauguration of the Puerto Princesa Seaport Expansion Project and the Philippine...
Top mass housing developer 8990 Holdings Inc. reported a 63 percent jump in net income to P5.4 billion in the first nine months of 2021 from the P3.31 billion earned in the same period last year as the real estate sector begins to recover from the impact of the pandemic. In a disclosure to the...
President Duterte has signed a law prescribing stiffer penalties for the crime of perjury. (Ye Jinghan/ Unsplash) Enacted was Republic Act (RA) No.11594, titled, "An Act increasing the penalties for perjury, amending for the purpose Articles 183 and 184 of Act No. 3815, as amended, otherwise known...
China Banking Corporation posted a 35 percent growth in consolidated net income to P11.2 billion for the January to September 2021 period on the back of sustained core business growth and effective cost management. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the bank said it was able to ride...
Negligent local government units (LGUs) with poor daily coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) inoculation record will be investigated through the issuance of show-cause orders, Department of the Interior and Local (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said Thursday, Nov. 4. Año specifically pointed out to...
Kontra Daya has given their take on the unending issue of vote buying that has been going around for weeks and said that while it is wrong to encourage voters to take the money, they should not be judged should they choose to accept it. In an interview on ANC, the poll watchdog convenor Danilo Arao...
The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) has started the construction of a massive irrigation project in Bohol that will cost the government as much as P1.5 billion. In a statement, NIA Administrator Ricardo R. Visaya led the recent groundbreaking ceremony for the P1.5-billion Bohol Northeast...
The race is on! Five names of senior officials of the Philippine National Police (PNP) have been recommended to President Duterte as possible replacement to Gen. Guillermo Lorenzo Eleazar who is set to retire on November 13. “I already submitted to the President the list of five names recommended...
The Philippines and Indonesia have formed a new partnership establishing an Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM), the first of its kind in Asia and the Pacific, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said. At the COP26 in Glasgow, ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa, Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani...
It will be an early Christmas gift President Rodrigo Duterte will be giving Filipinos if he heeds appeals for the suspension of the imposition on excise tax on petroleum products amid the continued rise in fuel prices. Rep. Jesus 'Bong' Suntay House Deputy Majority Leader and Quezon City Fourth...
Roughly 30 percent of the local government units (LGUs) failed to consistently and expeditiously submit the required vaccination operation reports, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Eduardo Año said in a news briefing aired on Wednesday, Nov. 3. In his report to...
