The House plenary. (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) The archaic, 111-year-old Warehouse Receipts Law is now one step closer to being updated. This, after the House of Representatives approved on third and final reading House Bill (HB) No. 198 or the Revised Warehouse Receipts Law of the...
As the government ramps up its campaign against sugar hoarders and profiteers, a warehouse in Deparo, Caloocan was raided by agents of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Monday, August 22. Deparo, Caloocan warehouse (Screenshots taken from videos provided by the Office of the Press Secretary) In a...
More warehouses suspected of hoarding sugar supply will be inspected in the coming days, Malacañang said. (Photo courtesy of BOC) Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said Thursday, Aug. 18, that aside from the warehouses recently inspected by the Bureau of Customs (BOC), more storage facilities...
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan – Police in this province are targeting drug syndicates, high-value drug personalities, and all those who are involved in the illegal drugs trade following the arrest of four persons, including a Chinese, in a buy-bust operation in Pozzorubio Friday, August 12. “We will...
POZORRUBIO, Pangasinan – Authorities discovered a warehouse here where 360 kilograms of shabu with an estimated value of P2.5 billion was found inside during a raid that also resulted in the arrest of a Chinese national and three Filipino cohorts in a Blue House in Turquoise St., Sunshine...
FIRE rages inside the Phidco copra processing plant in Zamboanga City that started Monday, June 28, and has been raging for more than 24 hours. (Zamboanga City LGU photo) ZAMBOANGA CITY -- A fire continues to raze a warehouse inside a copra processing plant in Barangay Baliwasan here. The...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is calling for the passage of the Warehouse Receipts Bill to professionalize the industry as well as help the country in attaining food security. In a DOF Economic Bulletin on Sunday, Dec. 26, Finance Undersecretary and Chief Economist Gil S. Beltran said storage,...
A fire of still unknown origin destroyed a warehouse in Paranaque City on Friday morning. Gutted by the fire was the warehouse of fruits and vegetables located along Quirino Avenue, El Faro Kabihasnan, San Dionisio, Paranaque City owned by a certain Maria Legaspi. According to a report by the...
The Technology Application and Promotion Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST-TAPI) has launched the country’s first Intellectual Property (IP) warehouse. (DOST Facebook page) Called the “System for Intellectual Property (IP) Applications and Grants (SIPAG)”, the...
The provincial government of Batangas and the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) have inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the construction of DSWD regional warehouse in Ibaan, Batangas. (DSWD Region IV-A Facebook page) The DSWD Region IV-A announced this on Monday, July 12,...
Puregold Price Club, Inc., Lucio Co’s retail group, reported a 14.6 percent growth in consolidated net income to P2.02 billion in the first quarter of 2021 from the P1.76 billion earned in the same period in last year. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Puregold said consolidated...
