Leading Philippine digital gaming company DigiPlus Interactive Corporation assured its stakeholders that the company is unaffected by the order of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to ban all Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs). “DigiPlus is not a POGO or an Internet Gaming Licensee (IGL)...
The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AmCham) is throwing full backing to the legislative measures which had been outlined by President Marcos in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) as the next priority policies to be pursued by the government. In the energy sector, the key piece...
As the generation companies (GenCos) miserably faltered with their relentless forced outages during the summer months, President Marcos has profoundly cheered the P160 billion worth of completed transmission projects of system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) in his...
Real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) has successfully raised P20.5 billion through its pioneering Sustainability-Linked Financing (SLF) Program after securing a loan from the International Finance Corporation (IFC). Management Committee Members and Executives of Ayala Land, Inc., Securities and...
Mitsubishi Philippines launched the all-new Triton pick up earlier this year. To give us more seat time, behind the wheel, we were invited to drive to Bataan with the Triton Athlete 4x4 AT in Yamabuki Orange. The all-new Triton has a completely new look, and is bigger in all dimensions over...
Real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. is set to seal a P14-billion sustainability bond deal exclusively with the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) on or before Friday, July 19, 2024. In an interview after the listing of the firm’s P6 billion ASEAN Sustainability bonds at the...
The ‘energy insecure’ state of Luzon grid lingers, as system operator National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) declared second wave of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the country’s biggest power grid this week. The state of ‘yellow alert’, which entails insufficiency of power...
With array of factors which caused unavailability of 1,652 megawatts in the system, the tripping of the 417.4MW San Gabriel gas-fed power facility has prompted the declaration of ‘yellow alert’ condition in the Luzon grid. In the context of the power industry, to be plunged into ‘yellow...
The full completion of the 230-kilovolt Cebu-Bohol interconnection project will decongest power supply flow in the tourist-haven Bohol; and will also have positive spillover effect to improving power supply in the Luzon grid by taking the edge off on the existing Leyte-Bohol submarine cable....
By James A. Loyola NexGen Energy Corporation, a renewable energy corporation with a portfolio of solar and wind service contracts, debuted on the upside at the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) with its share price rising 1.79 percent to P1.71 per share. The firm and its principal shareholders raised...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has called on the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) to modernize its operations and enhance the accessibility of its insurance products and services to better cater to farmers, fisherfolk, and livestock raisers. In a statement, Agriculture Secretary Francisco...
By JAMES A. LOYOLA A-FLOW Properties I Corp. (A-FLOW), a joint venture between AyalaLand Logistics Holdings Corp. (ALLHC) and FLOW Digital Infrastructure, has secured a P2.4-billion loan from the Land Bank of the Philippines (Landbank). A-FLOW said it had signed the loan agreement representing...
