Influential group urges government to prioritize small business recovery
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) has called on the government to prioritize the recovery of small businesses as it continues to...
PLDT, Smart share cybersecurity best practices with COMELEC to boost poll security
PLDT and its wireless unit, Smart Communications, Inc. recently hosted COMELEC officials headed by Commissioner Nelson Celis at its Security Operations Center in Makati...
ABS-CBN launches new primetime offering, to air on multiple broadcast and online platforms
ABS-CBN, the country’s leading content provider, is bolstering its primetime TV lineup with the launch of its newest teleserye “FPJ’s Batang Quiapo” that will air on multiple broadcast and online platforms this February 13.
The politics and statistics of hunger
Late in December last year the World Food Organization reported that malnutrition is widespread across the Philippines as the number of Filipinos simply cannot afford to have a healthy diet. In Metro Manila alone, some 2.9 million Filipinos went into a state of “involuntary hunger” and went about their lives for months with hardly anything to eat, according to a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations.
Meralco power rates lower in Feb
Manila Electric Co., the largest power distributor in the country, said Friday power rates will be lower in the February billing cycle on account of a net decline in the generation charge.
