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DA ensures access to safe, affordable food amid Luzon quarantine

ILOILO City - The Department of Agriculture (DA) has implemented a food resiliency protocol to ensure that every household in Luzon and in high...
Numbers from the electronic stock board are reflected on the glass window of a restaurant during trading hours of the Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati, Philippines. The main equities index rose by 1.29 percent, or 100.12 points, to 7,847.50 points on Wednesday, while the local currency finished the day’s trade at 52.32 from 52.26 a day ago against the US dollar. AP PHOTO/AARON FAVILA

PH shares plunge at resumption of trading

PHILIPPINE shares fell on the resumption of trading Thursday, tracking the decline in world markets as policy action to fight the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the...

Philippines hopeful for economic recovery after pandemic struggle

MANILA – The Philippine economy would recover from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said on Wednesday. Lopez made the statement, as...

Lower holiday pay for April 9 sought

MANILA – The country’s largest business group is pushing for the lowering of holiday pay next month amid enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. In a statement...
ABOITIZ AIDS COVID-19 FRONTLINERS. Last March 18, the Aboitiz Group, led by its CSR arm Aboitiz Foundation, turned over 5,700 N95 masks to representatives of the Department of Health (DOH) and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM).

Aboitiz donates critical medical supplies to COVID-19 frontliners nationwide

THE Aboitiz Group immediately mobilized its resources and donated critically-needed medical supplies and resources for health and security workers across the country amid the ongoing Coronavirus...
Dr. Andrew Tan (left) and Kevin L. Tan

AGI to donate 1-M liters of disinfectant alcohol to gov’t

ALLIANCE Global Group, Inc. (AGI), the holding firm of tycoon Dr. Andrew L. Tan, is donating one-million liters of 70 percent disinfectant ethyl alcohol to help...

DBP issues statement on its operations

IN VIEW of the declaration of Malacañang which placed the entire Luzon under enhanced community quarantine, the Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) is adopting measures to...

DA stresses need for ‘unhampered’ transit of agri goods

VEHICLES delivering food and other agricultural goods from provinces should be given unhampered and unrestricted movement even with the enhanced community quarantine placed over the entire...
Numbers from the electronic stock board are reflected on the glass window of a restaurant during trading hours of the Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati, Philippines. The main equities index rose by 1.29 percent, or 100.12 points, to 7,847.50 points on Wednesday, while the local currency finished the day’s trade at 52.32 from 52.26 a day ago against the US dollar. AP PHOTO/AARON FAVILA

Foreign exchange trading has resumed, BSP says

TRADING of Philippine peso to the US dollar resumed on Wednesday after trading platforms were granted exemption from the “enhanced community quarantine” in Luzon.  “Per the Bankers Association...

Pag-IBIG Fund offers 3-month moratorium on all loans

PAG-IBIG Fund is offering a three-month moratorium to its member-borrowers to help defray their expenses during the enhanced community quarantine being implemented by the government in...