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ESTRAT 360 Marketing Company wins the 2021 Brand Leadership Award (PHILIPPINES), presented by the World Marketing Congress (WMC) and Worlds Federation of Marketing Professionals. “Brand Leadership Awards is an international competition in which agency and design companies concepts and designs
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Take a closer look and marvel at the unique culture and heritage of our indigenous people with “Project Epanaw” or “Journey” – a collection of three coffee table books on Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs)/Indigenous Peoples (IPs) which was simultaneously launched
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At least 30 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine Novavax are set to arrive in the country by the second half of the year. Chief implementer of the government’s national policy on Covid-19 Carlito G. Galvez said he signed the
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The House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on second reading a measure empowering the state-run Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) to increase the maximum deposit insurance coverage (MDIC). Through viva voce voting, lawmakers approved House Bill 8818 grants the PDIC the power
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In pushing for the creation of the Department of Water Resources (DWR), a leader of the House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the Department of Budget and Management to be less judgmental against creating new agencies. During a forum on
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Church historians rejected new claims that the supposed site of the first mass in the country is in Butuan City. The Church Historians’ Association of the Philippines (CHAP) the said claim made in the book written by Joesilo Amalla, a
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AGRICULTURE Secretary William D. Dar said on Tuesday the Department of Agriculture (DA) will launch an investigation regarding Sen. Panfilo Lacson’s claim of an existing “tongpats” [kickback] system in the country’s pork importation. “We will investigate,” Dar told the BusinessMirror
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LOCAL hog raisers made another push to block the government’s twin proposal to lower pork tariffs and hike minimum access volume (MAV) by writing directly to President Duterte. The latest letter of the Pork Producer Federation of the Philippines Inc.
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DIVERSIFIED conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) claimed on Tuesday that the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) “keeps delaying” the toll collection for the Skyway 3, even as its concession agreement provides for the imposition of tariffs once it reaches a 95-percent
MoreTOURISM stakeholders in key areas of Cebu launched a sales campaign on Tuesday in a bid to attract more domestic travelers to their hotels and resorts. Alfred M. Reyes, president of the Hotel Resort & RestaurantsAssociation of Cebu, said the
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CASH remittances sent by Filipino migrant workers declined by about $45 million in January 2021 compared to the level in the same month last year, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported on Monday. Overseas Filipino workers’ (OFW) remittances hit
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The words “Diversity” and “Inclusion” are being used a lot these days, during this era of awareness and taking a stand in issues that matter. But what do these words really mean? For snacks company Mondelez Philippines, diversity and inclusion
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An official of the Department of Health (DOH) on Monday said intensive care unit (ICU) beds for Covid-19 patients are “slowly being filled up.” While the hospital care utilization rate (HCUR) nationwide is still considered “low risk” at 35 percent,
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WHILE offloading bad loans to asset management companies will help banks, doing so comes with a price financial institutions should be willing to pay. The Financial Institution Strategic Transfer (FIST) measure, which was signed into law last month, can free
MoreTHE Senate on Monday adopted a resolution asking President Duterte to declare a state of national emergency due to the African Swine Fever (ASF) and rejecting twin proposals to slash pork tariffs while increasing the minimum access volume (MAV) for
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THE House Committee on Banks and Financial Intermediaries on Monday started deliberating the proposed Capital Market Development Act to establish a new private retirement and pension system in the country. However, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III quickly told the committee
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THE Philippines continues to maintain the interest of foreign tourists amid their impatience for the lifting of international border restrictions here. “We noticed that people want to travel,” said Gregor Zajc, general manager of Blue Horizons Travel & Tours Inc., which
MoreTHE Philippines signed on Monday a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the country’s participation in the United Kingdom (UK)-Cross-Government Prosperity Fund for the Asean Economic Reform Programme and the Asean Low Carbon Energy Programme. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez inked
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FOLLOWING several out-of-town trips last week, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced on Monday he tested positive for Covid-19. In an online press briefing, Roque said he is currently in isolation after the result of his reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR)
MoreHALF a million Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia are not covered by the abolition of the Kafala, a system that ties workers to their employers or sponsors. The abolition of the Kafala syatem was implemented by the Saudi Ministry of Human
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