The Bureau of Customs-Port of NAIA (BOC-NAIA) launched on Tuesday, June 15 a QR (quick response) code-based customer feedback system as its newest addition to its digital services. (Photo by Luis Villasmil / Unsplash) The online feedback system, which effectively digitalized the manual satisfaction...
Who says the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is solely relying on white-colored dolomite "sand" to rehabilitate and beautify Manila Bay? Coconut trees (Photo by Madib Zikri / Unsplash) Apparently, the agency also wants to use the natural beauty of coconut trees to give Manila...
The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has finally disposed of the P75 million worth of smuggled cigarettes that were seized at the Mindanao Container Terminal last January, the agency said Tuesday, June 15. CRUSHED TO A PULP-- More than 135,000 reams of smuggled cigarettes amounting to P75 million were...
Undistributed land titles in Central Luzon are now down to less than a thousand after 75 percent of them were successfully awarded to farmer-beneficiaries. Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary Brother John Castriciones (Photo courtesy of DAR) Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Secretary John R....
Transport agencies have acknowledged the problem of long commuter lines at EDSA Bus Carousel stations, but they insist that things are still more organized and orderly than before. (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) The public has been criticizing the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and the Land...
The travel ban on passengers coming from seven Asian and Middle Eastern countries has been extended up to the end of the month, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Tuesday, June 15. BI Commissioner Jaime Morente (File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) BI Commissioner Jaime Morente said Malacañang...
Additional bus units will be deployed in a bid to ease the long queues being seen at the EDSA Bus Carousel stations, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said. Commuters in Philcoa, Quezon City are forced to wait in this file photo after public utility vehicles (PUVs) were only allowed to...
Why do you want the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to fail? MMDA traffic czar Edison Bong Nebrija (Photo from Nebirja's Facebook) This was the question that EDSA traffic czar Edison Bong Nebrija left for his haters and bashers on his Facebook wall Tuesday, June 15. "Ako I am open...
Quiapo Church's use of "banderitas" made out of single-use plastic has rubbed an environmental group the wrong way. These trinkets made out of thin-film plastic have made the EcoWaste Coalition unhappy. (Photo from EcoWaste Coalition) EcoWaste Coalition has called out the Quiapo Church for...
The Department of National Defense (DND) is fully supporting President Duterte's decision to extend the suspension of the termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) for six more months. CLOSE ALLIES -- Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and US Charge d'Affaires John Law interact during the...
