BDO & SM brought fun & entertainment together with comedians MC & Lassy at the Migrant Workers’ Day celebrations of DMW & OWWA recently held at the DMW office EDSA-Ortigas Ave., SM City North Edsa & SM City Bacolod. Aside from games & prizes, BDO shared financial tips to the Overseas Filipinos & responded to…
ST. PAUL — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has begun serving his 27-year and three-month prison sentence for his role in the attempted coup d’etat in 2022. The 70-year-old conservative leader is being held at the Federal Police Superintendence in Brasília — the country’s equivalent of a central police headquarters — where he was recently taken…
LEGAZPI CITY – Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Sarte Salceda has already filed his certificate of candidacy (CoC) for governor of Albay in the 2025 National and Local Elections with a new development agenda dubbed ‘Global Albay.’ Running under the Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (LAKAS-CMD) party, Salceda was among the first to file their CoCs in this city,…
Bangkok, Thailand – In a stunning display of innovation and ingenuity, Filipino inventors have once again proven their world-class brilliance, securing an outstanding 6 Gold Medals, 4 Silver Medals, and 3 Bronze Medals at Thailand Inventors’ Day 2025. The prestigious event, held from February 2 to 6 at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre…
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) hopes for the enactment of the proposed Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act or AFASA bill, which will allow it to examine financial accounts involved in prohibited acts. Elmore Capule, BSP senior assistant governor and general counsel of the office of the general counsel and legal services, said in a recent media information session Senator Mark Villar has expressed optimism…
The national government posted a P66.8 billion budget surplus in April, this year, the highest recorded in four years. Bureau of Treasury (BTr) data showed that the budget surplus was significantly higher than the P4.9 billion in April last year, and was the highest recorded since the P88.87 billion in April 2019. Last month’s surplus…
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) chair Teofilo Guadiz III has clarified that transport cooperatives are free to decide which modern jeepneys to buy for the public utility vehicle modernization program, and the government has no say on the matter. His statement on the matter in response to criticisms that the country is importing these vehicles from China. “They can buy…
CONFISCATED. The kush or high-grade marijuana with an estimated street value of PHP1.4 million seized by government authorities at the Central Mail Exchange Center in Pasay City on Dec. 10, 2024. The consignee of the kush, found inside a parcel declared as clothes from Thailand, was arrested, the Bureau of Customs reported on Monday (Dec….
By Ma. Teresa Montemayor MANILA – The Department of Health (DOH) has assured it constantly tries to identify various sources of domestic financing to address the overall projected funding gap in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), malaria, and tuberculosis programs. The DOH, in partnership with the Philippine Country Coordinating Mechanism for the Global Fund (PCCM-GF),…
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will continue to distribute rice to poor households as long as the agency receives confiscated smuggled rice seized by authorities acting on the instructions by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., a social welfare official said on Saturday. “Well, depende po sa supply. But then that’s the thrust…
