Monthly Archives: September 2021

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by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 24 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines is doubling efforts to finish the ratification process within the year for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which is seen to provide benefits in terms of greater market access and higher economic growth for the country.

by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 24 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should boost its social protection programs, especially for vulnerable groups, to ensure that the country’s labor force can bounce back from the pandemic and address worsening inequality and poverty.

by Danessa Rivera – The Philippine Star, 24 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing for the rollout of a massive electric vehicle (EV) project and the establishment of a comprehensive EV road mapping project to transition toward a low-carbon energy, efficient transportation system.

by Janvic Mateo – The Philippine Star, 24 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The satisfaction rating of President Duterte reached an all-time high of 84 percent in November 2020, but dropped to 75 percent in the May and June 2021 polls of Social Weather Stations (SWS).

by Jarius Bondoc – The Philippine Star, 24 Sep 2021 Presidential Chinese pal Michael Yang’s Pharmally Inc. sold to the government surgical masks 54-percent costlier than base price. It also supplied P550 million worth of COVID-19 test kits that expired shortly after delivery. The two findings by senators Tuesday controverted President Rodrigo Duterte’s repeated defense…

by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — More business groups have expressed opposition to keeping transportation, telecommunication and power generation as public utilities as the country needs to attract more foreign investments at this time.

by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has retained its 2021 economic growth outlook for the Philippines at 4.5 percent, but warned of continued downside risks from more transmissible COVID variants that may lead to fresh spikes in cases and lockdown measures.

by Cecille Suerte Felipe, Paolo Romero – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Senate has approved on second reading a bill raising the age of sexual consent to 16 years old to help prevent statutory rape.

by Robertzon Ramirez – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Eight nuns belonging to the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, more popularly known as the RVM Sisters, have died of COVID-19, an official of the congregation reported yesterday

by Elijah Felice Rosales – The Philippine Star, 23 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Finance (DOF) said a proposal in Congress to slap a wealth tax of up to three percent should only cover fixed assets like buildings, land and vehicles

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by Neil Jayson Servallos – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) has joined government interventions against online social media groups that were created to cheat in online learning examinations, an official said on Tuesday.

by Philstar.com, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A health expert is calling on the government to find ways to make different contact tracing systems work together and to also maximize their use.

by Philstar.com, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte renewed his call to abolish the kafala system, which he said allows the “exploitation and oppression” of migrant workers.

by Louella Desiderio – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Employer groups yesterday lauded the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG) for approving the lifting of penalties on companies unable to remit employees’ savings in the last two years to help businesses reeling from the impact of the pandemic.

by Elijah Felice Rosales – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Finance (DOF) has warned that the imposition of a wealth tax may force investments out of the country, even as multilateral lending institutions back such a measure to generate more revenue.

by Gerardo P. Sicat – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 In 1985, the construction of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant project of the National Power Corp. was structurally completed.

by Louise Maureen Simeon – The Philippine Star , 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — The target of inoculating at least 40 percent of the population of every country hangs in the balance as vaccine access remains limited, threatening global economic recovery, international organizations announced yesterday.

by Delon Porcalla – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A committee of the House of Representatives approved yesterday a measure that will exempt working senior citizens from income tax payments being deducted by the Bureau of Internal Revenue from their monthly salaries.

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by Ramon Royandoyan – Philstar.com, 21 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Internet in the Philippines remains pricey for Filipinos, but bandwidth quality improved this year, a new report released Tuesday found.

by Paolo Romero – The Philippine Star, 21 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Low annual budgets as well as turf issues among hundreds of government agencies are seriously hampering the development of the information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure in the public sector, badly needed in times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said…

by Christian Deiparine – Philstar.com, 21 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A network of private schools on Tuesday sought for financial aid from the government amid another low turnout in enrollment during the second year of distance learning in the country.

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BY SAMUEL P. MEDENILLA, 20 Sep 2021 THE removal of the jurisdiction of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in handling labor-related cases in economic zones is considered illegal.

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