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PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said on Monday that he will pursue more projects interconnecting the country’s road networks.  “We will continue to push for the interconnectivity of major roads and expressways, as well as build even more roads and bridges in strategic places within the archipelago,” he said in a speech at the inauguration […]

THE second segment of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC) unit’s NLEX Connector Road is set to be completed by the end of June if right-of-way acquisitions go as planned, NLEX Corp.’s president said. NLEX Connector Road, an 8-kilometer expressway linking the Caloocan Interchange on Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) to Magsaysay Interchange at the Polytechnic University […]

SOUTHEAST ASIA needs to upskill its workers to support productivity growth and improve resiliency against global crises, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said. “In Southeast Asia, workers are struggling to reskill and upskill quickly enough to adapt to changes in the world of work, and employers who often encounter difficulties in finding the […]

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said consumer awareness and education could be pathways to achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs), by encouraging more sustainable practices in production and consumption. “We will continue and tirelessly push for increased consumer awareness and education on sustainable consumption and production, until everyone in the country becomes a sustainable […]

SENATE Majority Leader Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva has sponsored out to the plenary a bill seeking to establish a long-term employment generation and recovery masterplan. Senate Bill 2035, otherwise known as the Trabaho Para sa Bayan Plan, seeks to make job creation a product of deliberate policy. “Employment should not just be incidental to economic development. Generating […]

For taxpayers using the calendar year, the due date for the filing of the 2022 Income Tax Return (ITR) is April 17, 2023, since April 15 falls on a Saturday. Taxpayers are already used to this cycle of filing tax returns regularly — the ITR being the last periodic tax return to be filed for […]

By Kyle Aristophere T. Atienza, Reporter THE GOVERNMENT of Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. should develop a people-centered and preventive approach to marine disasters as part of a bigger plan to harness the ocean economy, scientists said. The Philippines, just like many coastal states, “does not have the capability to respond to marine disasters […]

A PHILIPPINE senator on Monday opposed a proposal to let foreigners own land, saying it has nothing to do with the economy and would only spur opposition to Charter change (Cha-cha). “Although they call it economic provisions, there is one rider that it’s not necessarily connected to economic provisions,” Senator Aquilino Martin D. Pimentel III […]

THE PHILIPPINES posted 1,298 coronavirus infections in the past week, with a daily average of 185, the Department of Health said on Monday.   The daily average was 11% higher than a week earlier, the agency said in a bulletin. There were 10 severe and critical cases.  It verified 60 more deaths, none of which occurred […]

A LAWMAKER on Monday proposed to use the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund (RCEF) to support the Agriculture department’s plan to use hybrid rice seeds across 1.5 million hectares of land.   Camarines Sur. Rep. Luis Raymund “L-Ray” F. Villafuerte Jr. wants to call the program Masagana 129, a rehash of the Masagana 99 rice sector project […]

THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) has set the campaign period for the village and youth council elections to Oct. 19 to 28 while the gun ban will be in effect from Aug. 28 to Nov. 29.   In a resolution on Monday, Comelec said the revised calendar of activities for the elections was based on […]

THE GOVERNMENT is finding ways to use idle lands for housing projects, President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said on Monday.   “We continue to study on how we will identify and use the government’s vacant lots where houses could be built based on laws and regulations,” the president said in Filipino in a speech at the […]

TWO more suspects linked to the murder of Negros Oriental’s governor and 26 other victims have been arrested after police searched two undisclosed areas in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental at the weekend. Interior Secretary Benjamin C. Abalos, Jr. said at a livestreamed news briefing on Monday that police on Sunday seized firearms, ammunition, a written […]

THE SENATE majority leader on Monday filed a resolution seeking to probe, in aid of legislation, the government’s short- and long-term plans to address the water supply problem in Metro Manila and other parts of the country, especially with the onset of the dry season that is expected to be until end-May.     “Despite the abundance […]

PUBLIC transport drivers, conductors, operators, and other employees could face fines and other penalties if proven to have committed gender-based sexual harassment in their service vehicles in line with the Philippines’ safe spaces law.    The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued a directive setting monetary fines ranging from P5,000 to P15,000 as […]

A REGIONAL trial court in Iligan City has convicted a member of a religious group for terrorist financing, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Monday.   In a statement, the DoJ said a cashier of the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP) was convicted of 55 counts of being an accessory to terrorist financing.   The […]

FARMERS in Tarlac cultivating Chinese cabbage, also known as pechay, were able to harvest 5,000 kilograms (kg) from a site also hosting a solar farm, Citicore Renewable Energy Corp.  said. The 7-megawatt solar farm, known as Citicore Solar Tarlac 2, Inc., in Barangay Dalayap, Tarlac City, also provides power to area farmers, the company said, […]

PLDT Inc. inched up last week as worries over its budget overrun were eased while news of its Sky Cable Corp. acquisition boosted optimism amid an expected wider market share. Data from the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) showed a total of 551,025 shares of the Pangilinan-led telco worth P746.3 million were traded from March 20 […]