Damaging weather events losses estimated at P1.13B
The cost of damaging weather events on agriculture is estimated to have reached P1.13 billion, according to latest data from the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Operations Center.
BIR intensifies campaign vs illicit cigarette traders
Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Romeo Lumagui Jr. today lead the agency’s first-ever simultaneous nationwide trade enforcement exercise against perpetrators of illicit cigarette...
Q3 2022 GDP growth maintained at 7.6%
The government has retained the projected local output growth measured as the gross domestic product (GDP) at 7.6 percent in the third quarter of 2022, according to National Statistician Dennis Mapa.
Smart SIM registration now 17 percent complete
Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has registered 17 percent or 12.6 million subscriber identity modules (SIM) of an estimated 73 million mobile subscribers as of latest count, the telecommunications firm said on Wednesday.
ACEN starts building 300MW solar farm in Zambales
ACEN, the listed energy platform of the Ayala Group, will increase its power generation capacity with the development of a new 300-megawatt solar farm, called Palauig 2 Solar, in Zambales at a cost of P16 billion.
