Health Secretary Francisco Duque III said of the more than 6,000 new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases in the country, nearly 3,000 came from the National Capital Region. DOH/MB In a meeting with President Duterte on Wednesday, April 28, Duque said 2,963 of the cases came from NCR, 1,478 from...
To help ensure the effective administration of COVID-19 vaccines throughout the country, the International Chamber of Commerce Philippines (ICCP), Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), and the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) have organized a virtual meeting of experts and...
Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Francisco Duque III said Tuesday, April 27, that there is no travel ban for overseas Filipino workers in India. People stand in queue keeping social distance beside a COVID-19 awareness scarecrows placed by Chennai municipality at a market during a...
And it will soon deliver interesting stories of Filipino immigrants in the US A Philippine tricycle was spotted in the US recently, making history by becoming the first trike to cross the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge along with 60 Filipino American motorcyclists. With its remarkable...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor Francisco G. Dakila Jr. said the term deposit facility (TDF) which had the same offer volume of P600 billion Wednesday, (March 3) continued to be oversubscribed at P645.75 billion. Both the 7-day and 14-day tenors were offered at P200 billion...
This shows how fortitude in the time of pandemic can mean realizing a cherished dream Melody Lorenzo If you’re a foodie living in San Francisco and the Bay Area, the chances are high that you’d be aware of two popular hashtags on social media: #BayAreaFilipinoPies and #PinayPieLady. Here is the...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will formally announce on Wednesday that financial digitalization and e-money expert, Mamerto E. Tangonan, a BSP outsider, is its new deputy governor. Tangonan, currently chief of party of the e-peso project of US Agency for International Development...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued an advisory warning banks and non-banks to be alert and detect clients or customers that are engaged in illegal online gambling and to report these activities to the proper government agencies including the central bank. BSP memo (Circular Letter No....
The central bank’s term deposit facility (TDF) auction was still oversubscribed but results were mixed while yields continue to decline. “There was a slight undersubscription in the 7-day TDF, receiving bids 0.88x the offer volume. Meanwhile, the 14-day TDF was oversubscribed with bids 1.16x...
See some of the works of the ‘Dean of Filipino Illustrations’ Francisco Coching and his works Dumagit and Ang Kaluluwa ni Dante If you’ve been watching TV5’s Bella Bandida , then you should know the man behind the comics it is adapted from. Dubbed as the “Dean of Filipino...
Economists surveyed by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) have adjusted its inflation expectation higher for 2021 but steady for 2022, while the BSP continue to communicate its intention to maintain low borrowing rates. Based on the central bank’s latest Private Sector Economists’...
Win Jaime’s Heart, the BL series from filmmaker Zyril Nica Bundoc and production house Sanny Istudyo, is breaking the internet. Its freshman run isn’t over—the finale is slated for January 25—but the first five episodes alone have earned a combined total of over 1.5 million views to...
