The World Bank is dangling a new $2.5-billion financing program to push East Asian and Pacific countries towards renewable energy (RE) use. The Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition Program would "contribute to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 60 million tons over its lifetime while...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Here's potential good news for workers who toil the night shift. Makati City 2nd district Rep. Luis Campos Jr. has filed House Bill (HB) No. 10534, which would free the night shift differential pay from taxes so that...
President Marcos wants a “paradigm shift” or a “new way” of dealing with China’s aggressive actions in the West Philippine Sea, revealing that he also plans to release a joint position with the Philippines’ regional and international partners on ways to de-escalate the tensions. ...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez delivers his message during the meet and greet with the Filipino community at Grand Hyatt Hotel Sunday afternoon, Aug. 6 in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez brought up before members of the...
Soon, motorists will no longer have to go to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for almost all the transactions concerning their driver’s license and registration of their vehicles. And for a start, newly-stalled LTO chief Asst. Secretary Vigor Mendoza II said they will be implementing an...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has promulgated the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) granting night shift differential pay to government employees. Commuters wait for their ride along Riverside, Commonwealth Avenue, on June 7, 2022. This is the same situation in many parts of Metro...
Starting next week, enforcers of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) across the country will no longer issue a hard copy of traffic violation tickets as part of the digital shift of the agency. Instead, LTO chief Jose Arturo “Jay Art” Tugade said its officers will be using a Law Enforcement...
The Philippine National Police (PNP) has welcomed the conviction of a policeman for torture and planting of evidence in connection with the deaths of Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo De Guzman in August 2017. PNP chief Gen. Rodolfo Azurin, Jr. issued the statement amid the shift of strategies in the...
All-new Suzuki Celerio drive Having been a while since Suzuki invited us out for a drive, the newly-launched Celerio was a welcome reason to drive out of town. The previous generation of the Celerio was known to be fuel efficient. In fact, its CVT variant scored higher than its manual variant in...
SAN FERNANDO, La Union—With less than a month before Election Day, Vice President Leni Robredo on Tuesday, April 12, said that the endorsements from other camps are “crucial” to a possible win on May 9. Vice President Leni Robredo speaks during the “Elyu Pink Wave” People’s Rally in San...
The sudden onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last 2020, and the lockdowns and safety protocols that ensued, forced many entrepreneurs to reinvent their operations overnight in order to survive. Among those who weathered this challenge was fashion entrepreneur and TV personality Roxanne Montealegre,...
The Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-MEID) may discuss on Thursday, Feb. 17, proposals to downgrade the COVID Alert Level in Metro Manila, an ranking government official disclosed. The shift of Metro Manila to Alert Level 1 could be part of the...
