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The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) and the newly-formed Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) are back to business even though the nomination of their respective secretaries was bypassed by the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) The DPWH, headed [...]
The city council will investigate the latest attacks on university students who received text messages from an unidentified group that threatened to inflict harm on youth activists in Baguio. Since Tuesday, the local police have intensified the security around the [...]
The Philippines needs 106,000 nurses both in public and private facilities and hospitals, the Department of Health (DOH) said Thursday. DOH officer in charge Maria Rosario Vergeire said the country also has a shortage of doctors, pharmacists, radiologic technologists, medical [...]
ELECTRICITY consumers led by the Power for People Coalition (P4P) on Thursday, September 29, mobilized to protest the high electricity prices imposed on the island, as well as San Miguel Corp.’s (SMC) planned construction of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) [...]
Philip Morris International (PMI), the world’s largest cigarette manufacturer, has announced plans to invest an additional P8.8 billion (approximately $150 million) in its Philippine affiliate PMFTC Inc. to open manufacturing lines to produce specially designed heated tobacco sticks for its [...]
The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has succumbed to a bear market after its composite index (PSEi) fell by over 239.47 points on Tuesday (September 27). PSEi reached the threshold of bear market as soon as it hit 6,041 points, with the index [...]
Members of the Senate of the Philippines and the House of Representatives both ratified the bicameral version of a proposal that would postpone the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) set in December 2022. The Senate announced the approval of [...]
Former Deputy Executive Secretary for Legal Affairs Richard P. Palpal-latoc has been appointed chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Palpal-latoc’s appointment was made public by the CHR late evening on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Aside from Palpal-latoc, President Ferdinand [...]
VOTING 20-0-0, the Senate approved on third and final reading Senate Bill (SB) 1310 or the proposed SIM (subscriber identity module) Registration Act. SB 1310 requires the registration of SIM cards to curb cyber crimes such as identity theft and [...]
Shopee Philippines, which has boomed over the past years amid the pandemic, is set to lay off some of its employees to “optimize” business after it reported a loss of $931.2 million in the second quarter of 2022. Prior to [...]
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