The Gokongwei Brothers Foundation (GBF) launched 10 new classrooms in Calasiao, Pangasinan and Bacolod City for its 34th anniversary, benefiting four public schools. Two classrooms each go to Nalsian-Bacayao, Bued, and San Miguel Elementary Schools; four to Emiliano Lizares Elementary.
India-based iSON Group is committing up to USD375 million to expand its Philippine operations, led by a USD300-million telecommunications infrastructure program that will bring its tower network to 3,000 sites over the next decade.
The Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is expanding community financial education via its six-leg Barangay PeraWise Caravan to boost money skills and household well-being.
Market! Market! will remain a major commercial and transport hub in Bonifacio Global City for more than another decade after the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) and Ayala Land Inc. secured a 12-year lease extension backed by a P1-billion modernization program.
The Philippines is pursuing a more distributed artificial intelligence-driven industrial strategy that could spread advanced manufacturing, chip design, critical-mineral processing, and computing infrastructure across the country rather than concentrate the emerging technology ecosystem in New Clark City.
Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) has strengthened its standing among Asia-Pacific airports, earning a second consecutive recognition for passenger experience as its private operator pursues investments in infrastructure, technology, connectivity and sustainability.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) are moving P71.52 million worth of farm-to-market road projects in Concepcion, Tarlac to the bidding stage, strengthening transport links between farming communities and markets.
The Philippines will adopt India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) technology as part of a push to modernize the country’s digital payments system, starting with faster government aid disbursements through Land Bank of the Philippines and potentially extending to cross-border payments.