RESIDENTS of a small apartment building do house chores outside their units, amid the lockdown to contain COVID-19, in a slum area in Tondo, Manila, May 4. — REUTERS THE GOVERNMENT is looking at enforcing aggressive isolation measures and prohibiting home quarantine for coronavirus patients to bring down the infection rate further, according to Carlito […]Read More

WORKERS make reusable personal protective equipment (PPE) at Sasha Collection’s facility in Taytay, Rizal, Aug. 26. The government is urging the public to buy locally made PPE to support manufacturers. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS MANUFACTURERS are asking the government to review trade laws to protect local industries from the influx of “cheaper and substandard” imported […]Read More

PHILSTAR THE Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) said expediting the approvals process for power projects is expected to unlock about P200 billion worth of project proposals currently pending. The commission said at its budget hearing before the House appropriations committee that it wants more personnel to process the applications. However, its proposed budget for personnel services […]Read More

Philippine exports continue to slump amid the global recession. — PHILIPPINE STAR/EDD GUMBAN By Jenina P. Ibanez, Reporter PHILIPPINE EXPORTS’ return to growth could be as far away as 2022 after the effects of the pandemic caused a slowdown in operations that will likely prompt the government to revise its export targets for the next […]Read More

THE Department of Finance (DoF) expressed the hope that the proposed Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises Act (CREATE) is passed sometime this month, before Congress takes a month-long break in mid-October, Finance Assistant Secretary and the department’s spokesman, Assistant Secretary Antonio G. Lambino II, said. “We hope CREATE will be passed this month,” […]Read More

Meralco crews work round-the-clock to ensure safe, adequate, and reliable supply of electricity to the Solaire-PAGCOR Mega Quarantine Facility. The 525-bed center located in Paranaque City, is the biggest quarantine facility in Metro Manila and is one of the additional COVID-19 facilities to serve Metro Manila, Bulacan, and the Calabarzon Region. The said energization project […]Read More

FACTORY OUTPUT extended its losing streak to a fifth month in July, with an 11.9% year-on-year decline in the Volume of Production Index (VoPI), the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said Friday. The PSA was reporting preliminary VoPI results, which form part of the PSA’s Monthly Integrated Survey of Selected Industries. The decline was less than […]Read More