Pork products are being displayed at a meat stall in Iloilo Terminal Market. The Department of Agriculture has created a special committee to investigate the alleged corruption in the allocation of meat import certificates under the in-quota Minimum Access Volume scheme. PANAY NEWS PHOTO

‘Pork tariff cut disadvantageous for both gov’t, consumers’

MANILA – The Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) on Friday said the reduction in tariff rates for pork imports did not benefit the government...

Your comfort zone; Why you should not be too comfortable with it

IF YOU’VE spent any amount of time browsing through YouTube, you might have come across one or two (or hundreds more) of those pep...

Jollibee, DoubleDragon to create PH’s 1st industrial REIT

ILOILO – DoubleDragon Properties Corporation (DoubleDragon) and its industrial leasing subsidiary, CentralHub Industrial Centers, Incorporated (CentralHub), have signed a P3.97 billion binding agreement with...
The 150-key Park Inn by Radisson Bacolod is located within the SM City Bacolod mall complex.

Park Inn by Radisson brings bright new era of hospitality to the City of...

RADISSON Hotel Group is excited to announce the opening of another new Park Inn by Radisson hotel in the Philippines. This vibrant and welcoming...
China is urging the Philippine government to follow Cambodia’s lead and ban all forms of online gambling. CNN PH

Duterte OKs online gambling to boost COVID response funds

MANILA – To boost the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) response funds, President Rodrigo Duterte allowed online gambling in the country. Considering the government is running...
The 9th Philippines-France Joint Economic Committee meeting held on July 2 strengthens the bilateral partnership between France and Philippines. Officials from the DTI and the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Attractiveness joined the high-level economic dialogue. DTI

French firm eyes P1.5B shipyard in Philippines

MANILA – A French shipbuilding firm expressed its intent to construct a P1.5 billion shipyard in the country that may potentially create 600 jobs,...
A sikad driver pedals his bicycle in the street of Pavia, Iloilo, to transport a passenger and his goods. National statistician Dennis Mapa says the lower inflation rate in June was due to the lower transport cost. JAP FAJARDO/PN

Inflation rate cools to 4.1% in June with lower transport cost

MANILA – The prices of basic goods and services rose at a slower pace in June led by lower transport cost, the Philippine Statistics...
DUTERTE. PN FILE PHOTO

DU30 signs EO creating energy virtual one-stop shop task group

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday signed an executive order (EO) creating the energy virtual one-stop-shop task group to ensure the streamlining of...

J&T Heroes awards outstanding delivery frontliners

NOT all heroes wear capes. Sometimes, they wear helmets and ride motorcycles. From hundreds of nominations for outstanding delivery riders nationwide, e-commerce logistics leader...
Personnel of the Department of Agriculture conduct random inspections of hogs that will be shipped to Metro Manila. In terms of pork sufficiency, DA-6 regional director Remelyn Recoter says Western Visayas has enough pork, which stands at 285 percent. The region has a net surplus of 126, 747 metric tons. DA-6

DA-6 promotes pork processing amid surplus

ILOILO City – Swine raisers and women associations in Western Visayas are encouraged to engage in pork processing amid the high surplus of the...