The increasing cost of packaging materials, including tin can, was the major reason behind the price hike of basic commodities, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said. Aside from this, the department stressed that the last increase on the suggested retail prices (SRPs) of basic goods was...
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) seized some P26 million worth of smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes in a series of raids in Central Luzon that also resulted in the arrest of 11 store owners and sellers. Photo: CIDG CIDG director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro...
With the success of the launch of the Montblanc M_Gram 4810 last year, the line expands the offering by giving patrons more choices of multi-functional leather goods. The brand now extends its signature “M” monogram to medium and small leather pieces which can be worn in various ways. The...
Quezon City 2nd District Councilor Candy Medina led the recent distribution of relief goods to at least 2,500 families in barangays Payatas, Commonwealth, Batasan Hills, Holy Spirit and Silangan. The city councilor took the initiative as she said “food is a very essential part of our...
Affection8 Consumer Goods Trading became the country’s first online cosmetic store to pre-commercialize the Department of Science and Technology- Industrial Technology Development Institute (DOST-ITDI) halal cosmetic products. Online cosmetic store Affection8 Consumer Goods Trading, through its...
The government has mobilized resources, including more than P1-billion worth of standby funds and relief aid, to assist communities affected the heavy monsoon rains in some parts of the country. The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) placed its units in northwestern Luzon on heightened alert to prepare...
Prices of basic necessities and prime commodities will increase by 3 to 5 percent or P0.75 centavos to P1 per can of sardines and canned meats, a situation that will likely worsen the country’s already elevated inflation level. In a television interview, DTI Secretary Ramon M. Lopez said the...
The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) and the United Nations Children’s Fund have urged tech companies and innovators to join the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and come up with...
Smuggled frozen meat and seafood products amounting to P100 million were uncovered from 12 reefer containers, which were parked at a vacant lot in Navotas City, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said Friday, May 28. COLD CATCH-- Various smuggled frozen goods worth P100 million from four different...
In response to the controversy, 10 inventive chefs turn the Filipino comfort dish into a sumptuous necessity PORRIDGE FOR THE SOUL Lugaw is plain rice porridge, but you can turn it into anything you can imagine “Is lugaw essential?” asked a barangay official of a delivery rider waiting outside...
Three-termer vice mayor Jerry Yaokasin , known in his city as Sambo, has been busy this pandemic, among other things, bartering basic goods with Taclobanons. They would go to his office and ask him to take a look at the items they came bearing—and they would leave with rice, milk, eggs, and other...
