The local government unit (LGU) of Pasig City inaugurated the 100 kilowatt on-grid solar power system at the Pasig Sports Center at the City Hall on Monday (May 31). (Mayor Vico Sotto / MANILA BULLETIN) Mayor Vico Sotto said the city government spent P6.6 million for the solar power system. “Sa...
The country gets a chance to be "globally recognized as a maritime power" after Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) General Manager Jay Daniel R. Santiago was recently elected Vice President for Asia, South East and Oceania of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH). The global...
Japanese firm Mitsubishi Power (Philippines) Inc. has bagged a three-year contract for ‘reliability maintenance work’ aimed at improving the capacity availability at the 300-megawatt Therma South Inc. power plant of Aboitiz Power Corporation. The long term service agreement (LTSA), according to...
DMCI Holdings Inc., the diversified conglomerate controlled by the Consunjis, expects a strong recovery this year due although a return to its pre-pandemic performance is not seen until 2023. “We believe that our Company can stage a recovery this year on the back of higher construction...
The rebuilding of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) almost forty years ago today was “one of the best good things” that former First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos has done for her country, according to Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. Former First Lady Imelda Marcos (3rd from...
The PLDT Home Fibr Hitters hope their 14-day bubble camp at Splendido Hotel in Alfonso, Tagaytay would make up for lost training sessions due to health restrictions brought by the pandemic. The Games and Amusements Board (GAB) recently cleared the team to hold a camp under a bubble-type setting,...
Diversified engineering conglomerate DMCI Holdings, Inc. reported that its profits shot up by 590 percent in the first quarter of the year to P4.3 billion from P616 million in the same period of 2020. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said this is because income drivers...
The consolidated net income of Consunji-led Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) significantly climbed by 93-percent to P2.3 billion within first quarter this year versus P1.2 billion in the same period last year. On stream of revenues, that also surged by 27-percent for the company to P9.3...
Clean energy group Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) hailed on Friday, May 7 the apparent decision of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to move away from coal, which has long been regarded as a dirty energy source. (Photo by Wander Fleur / Unsplash) "Today, the Asian Development...
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation posted a strong recover in the first quarter of 2021 with net income amounting to P17.2 billion, 15 times better than the P1.1 billion it earned in the same period last year. In a statement, the firm said almost all its major...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza First thing I did when my son said he would need surgery was to ask my best friend, the prayerful one, for prayers. Her answer shocked me. “Two thousand Hail Marys,” she promised. The 2,000 Hail Marys devotion goes back to 1933. It was started by a Salesian seminarian...
Already the world's biggest pop star at 19, singer-songwriter Billie Eilish is shedding her old image, letting the world know there is more to her than baggy clothes and green hair. Unveiling a classic, glamorous look for British Vogue's June edition, the Grammy-award winning artist looked very...
