National rice program gets P30.8B under 2024 budget
THE country's national rice program (NRP) under the Department of Agriculture has been allocated P30.8 billion under the P5.768 trillion national budget for 2024.
The...
Stock market starts 2024 strong, peso depreciates
THE Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) started the year with gains on positive sentiment on inflation, while the local currency depreciated on the first...
P571-M 6/58 winner says PCSO draws real
A lone winner from Albay who bagged the P571-M jackpot prize of the Ultra Lotto 6/58 drawn last Friday, claimed the winnings on Tuesday...
PAGCOR-FUNDED SCHOOL BUILDING UNVEILED IN TARLAC
PURA, Tarlac – School children in this municipality now have more learning space with the inauguration on Wednesday, December 20, of a modern two-story,...
BOI to help in commercialization, promotion of local biofertilizer
THE Board of Investments (BOI) has started collaborating with AgriSpecialist, Inc. (ASI) for the commercialization and promotion of locally-developed biofertilizer products.
The BOI, in a...
PH hopeful of exiting global money laundering ‘grey list’
THE Philippines is hopeful of being taken off the money laundering “grey list” of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of this year, the...
4.1-M minimum wage earners get pay hikes in 15 regions
AT LEAST 4.1 million minimum wage earners have benefited from the salary adjustments in 15 regions in 2023.
“A total of 15 wage orders were...
Gov’t pays P1.5T in debt in 11 months
THE Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) on Monday, Jan. 1, reported that the national government (NG) has paid P1.53 trillion of its total debt...
BI records 161,000 int’l arrivals during holiday rush
THE Bureau of Immigration (BI) recorded 161,000 international passengers arriving in the Philippines from Dec. 23 to 25, a number equivalent to monthly arrivals...
Over 2M rice farmers start receiving P5K cash aid from excess tariff collection
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said that an estimated 2.38 million rice farmers have started receiving P5,000 each in cash aid from the Rice...