OF TREES AND FORESTS Today is Labor Day. It is a day to celebrate the contributions of workers not only to the Philippine economy but the global economy as well given the millions of overseas Filipino workers scattered all around the globe. It is also a day to recommit ourselves to the vision of...
AllDay Supermarket and AllHome Corporation, the publicly-listed retail units of AllValue Holdings owned by richest Filipino Manuel B. Villar Jr., reported strong profits for 2023. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, AllDay Supermarket (ALLDY), a leading player in the Philippines’...
(Rep. Villar's office) House Deputy Speaker Las Pinas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar led on Thursday, April 25 the distribution of P10 million worth of education assistance to college students from local indigent families. ...
BACOLOD CITY – Victorias City in Negros Occidental inaugurated a Dairy Box and a P7-million Carabao Pen to boost its local carabao dairy production industry. MAYOR Javier Miguel Benitez (left) and Sen. Mark Villar inaugurate the Dairy Box in Barangay I Satellite Market, Victorias City, Negros...
Sen. Cynthia Villar expressed support for Administrative Order No. 20 easing the rules on the importation of agricultural products. She mentioned this on Tuesday, April 23, during the 73rd Philippine Society of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineers (PSABE) Annual National Convention, the 35th...
Senator Cynthia Villar took part in the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources' (BFAR) sendoff of Filipino fishermen to the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Ensuring the government's full support to boost fisheries catch, Senator Cynthia A. Villar joined in sending off a group of fishermen to...
OF TREES AND FOREST Finance Secretary Ralph Recto recently proclaimed that due to “the continued improvements in the country’s jobs market and quality of jobs for Filipinos” the country is progressing towards “achieving the government’s target of reducing the poverty rate to single-digit...
Richest Filipino Manuel B. Villar Jr.’s Vista Land & Lifescapes Inc., one of the country’s leading integrated property developers and the largest homebuilder, registered a 39 percent jump in net income to P10.3 billion last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE),...
OF TREES AND FORESTS A couple of months from today we will be celebrating the 126th year of Philippine Independence. On June 12, 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the independence of the Philippines in Kawit, Cavite. The proclamation was followed by the ratification of the Malolos Constitution that...
Senators stressed on Wednesday, April 3, that having a land title in a legislated protected area such as Chocolate Hills does not grant the owner absolute control regarding what should be done with it. Sen. Cynthia Villar says the regional offices of the Department of Environment and Natural...
OF TREES AND FOREST There was a time when the term “bakasyon” (or vacation) meant only one thing — leave your current residence and go to a place to experience a change in scenery. There was a time when it simply meant going to the province during summer. For a Tondo boy like myself it meant...
Real estate and retail mogul Manuel B. Villar Jr. has been listed as the only Filipino in elite Forbes World’s Billionaires List 2024: The Top 200 as among the planet’s billionaires whose fortunes continue to swell despite war, political unrest, and lingering inflation. Vista Land and...
