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Newly confirmed Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon has pledged to fast-track major transportation infrastructure projects to help ease the daily burden of millions of commuters and deliver on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s directive to make travel safer and more comfortable across the archipelago.

In signaling the crackdown on corrupt practices within the customs system, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Wednesday arrested two customs brokers for allegedly extorting P2 million from a local freight forwarder. The operation, conducted jointly by the BOC’s Customs Intelligence and Investigation Services at the Manila International Container Port and the National Bureau of Investigation’s Anti-Organized and Transnational Crime Division (NBI-AOTCD), led to the swift arrest of Wyeth Lara Navales and her sister Leila Lara Navales in Ermita, Manila.

ACEN Corp., the Ayala group’s listed energy platform, is expanding its renewable footprint in North Luzon with the 133-megaWatt Cagayan North Solar project in Lal-lo, Cagayan. 

Meralco PowerGen Corp. (MGen), a subsidiary of Manila Electric Co., has signed a strategic agreement with Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power to explore joint renewable energy (RE) ventures in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia.