PLDT Inc. completed the sale of 3,012 telecom towers, more than half of the towers it is monetizing, and received P39.2 billion cash payment, the telco disclosed Wednesday, June 1. This April, PLDT subsidiaries, Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc. (Digitel),...
Converge Information and Communications Technology Solutions, Inc. is automatically upgrading existing and new FiberX Plan 1500 subscribers, doubling their internet service speed from 50Mbps to 100Mbps for the same price of P1,500/month starting today, Wednesday, June 1. Subscribers now have a...
Don't look now, but there's still no fixed site for presumptive president Bongbong Marcos's anticipated inauguration on June 30, 2022. Presumptive president Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) "Mindful naman tayo na tayo ay nasa gitna parin pandemya (We're mindful that we're still in a...
The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) will be holding briefing for all winners in the May 9 local elections regarding the Mandanas Ruling. In a news briefing, DILG Undersecretary Epimaco Densing III said there will be a local briefing in the transition with regards to the...
DOH The Department of Health (DOH) remains hopeful that it will be able to meet its target of fully vaccinating 77 million Filipinos against Covid-19 by the end of June. “We will do our best to reach the 77 million fully vaxxed by June 30,” said DOH Undersecretary Myrna Cabotaje during a public...
Presumptive president Bongbong Marcos has invited United States (US) President Joe Biden to the former's inauguration on June 30, 2022 in Manila. US President Joe Biden (AFP) This was one of the details between the phone conversation between Marcos and Biden, which took place at 9 a.m. (local time)...
Vaccination in Muntinlupa (Photo from Muntinlupa PIO) The national government is still aiming to fully vaccinate at least eight to nine million Filipinos against Covid-19 by the end of Duterte's administration in June, the Department of Health (DOH) said. “If our target is 77 million hanggang sa...
Four and a half years after the end of the five-month long Marawi siege in May to October 2017, Congress has passed Republic Act No. 11696, the Marawi Siege Victims Compensation Act. The law provides compensation to those whose kin were killed, as well as those whose properties were destroyed in...
Team manager Butch Antonio believes Gilas Pilipinas will be carrying a bigger target as compared in the past in its task to extend the country’s dominance in the men’s basketball competitions of the Southeast Asian Games. MB File Photo Gilas is favored to win a 14th consecutive gold and 19th...
The computer loan program of the state pension fund Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) for its members will still be available until June 30 this year. The agency’s Ginhawa for All (GFAL) Computer Loan aims to provide a loan window that grants a P30,000-assistance to GSIS members for the...
Robert Bolick (from left), Kevin Alas, June Mar Fajardo, Matthew Wright and Japeth Aguilar (PBA photos) June Mar Fajardo, Japeth Aguilar, Matthew Wright and Kevin Alas were among the PBA cagers named to the 16-man pool of Gilas Pilipinas for the Southeast Asian Games in Hanoi, Vietnam. The four...
Metro Pacific Investments Corporation reported a 20 percent improvement in consolidated core net income to P12.3 billion last year from P10.2 billion in 2020. In a press briefing, MPIC Chief Finance Officer June Cheryl Cabal-Revillas said “This substantial improvement from the 13 percent growth...
