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Buoyant Q4 palay prices make for happy farmers at diners’ expense – PSA data
The price of palay or unhusked rice per kilo in the final three months of 2023 averaged P21.81, a 6.4 percent increase from third-quarter prices and 25 percent more than the year-earlier period.
Meralco chairman and CEO Manuel V. Pangilinan receives highest papal award for laity
In recognition of his decades of Christian charity and commitment to humanitarian causes, Manila Electric Company (Meralco) chairman and chief executive officer Manuel V. Pangilinan has been honored by the Catholic Church with the highest papal award for the laity.
Starbucks admits mistake placing cap on senior citizens, PWD, solo parents discounts
The local licensee of coffee shop Starbucks has acknowledged its “mistake” in placing a cap on the 20 percent discount that senior citizens and persons with disability are legally entitled to, and immediately ordered the removal of the “erroneous signages.”
Anticipated drop in mortgage rates seen boosting residential, industrial space development
An expected monetary policy easing this year—and consequently a drop in mortgage rates--should bolster demand for residential projects and industrial space, the latest edition of Colliers Research said.
Manila rated long on renewable energy plans, short on actual construction
At 99,396 megawatts, the Philippines owns the largest batch of prospective wind and solar projects that have been hatched by any sovereign in southeast Asia, larger than even Vietnam's 86,218 MW, the think tank Global Energy Monitor has reported.
