EDITORIAL - Going digital

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The Philippine economy is expected to grow by 8% this year on the back of upbeat first-quarter economic expansion, Standard Chartered Bank economists said...

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Foreign investment pledges fell to their lowest in more than a decade in the first quarter, as sentiment was affected by another virus surge in January...

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Following the grant of a “measly” salary increase for minimum wage earners, organized labor groups yesterday urged the government to lower the cost of living...

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A change in accounting standards introduced under the Philippine Financial Reporting Standards 4 has resulted in a P843.9 billion net loss for the Social Security System, as reflected in its unaudited financial statements for 2021, SSS president and CEO Michael Regino said...

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The Department of Health has detected a local transmission of the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.2.12.1, Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said Tuesday...

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The national government’s budget deficit as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) narrowed to 6.4 percent in the first quarter of 2022, auguring well for plans to revert the gap to pre-pandemic levels of about 3 percent...

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The Department of Health (DOH) has announced that it is coordinating with the Department of Education (DepEd) and local government units (LGUs) to facilitate the vaccination of children in private and public educational institutions...

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President Rodrigo R. Duterte has signed a bill that boosts consumer protection against cyber-crime, as the Philippines accelerates the shift to a cash-lite economy...

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President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a law granting all Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) members a monthly honorarium and other privileges...

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President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law promoting the rights of abandoned children with unknown parents and giving them more protection...

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The Employers Confederation of the Philippines (Ecop) urged the government to streamline the requirements for securing exemptions from the minimum wage increase...

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President Rodrigo Duterte has approved a bill extending the validity of licenses to carry firearms and the registration of firearms up to 10 years, particularly for people whose lives are under “actual threat.”

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Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Acting Secretary Jim O. Sampulna has recently issued an order seeking to strengthen biodiversity protection and conservation against mining operations...

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Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said on Tuesday, May 17, that the issuance of Executive Order (EO) No. 170 to expand government’s e-payment transactions will be effective against graft and corruption...

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A new law that gives a fixed three-year term to the chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and other top military officials is seen to ensure that only the best are appointed to the posts, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said yesterday...

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President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law recognizing abandoned children found in the country or in Philippine embassies and consulates abroad, also known as foundlings, as natural-born Filipinos...

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The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board announced it will be re-opening apointment scheduling for the Transport Network Vehicle Service applications starting Tuesday until June 17...

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The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) on Tuesday said micro businesses as well as pandemic-hit firms may apply for exemption from the wage hike...

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After two years of operating with restrictive measures, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) has lifted some of the temporary suspensions and exemptions given to aliens that were put in place to curb the spread of COVID 19...

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Senator Grace Poe on Tuesday cited the importance of the newly Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), saying the new law was meant to protect and reinforce the Filipino financial consumers’ rights to redress of grievances, access information, and maintain their privacy...

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When the 19th Congress opens, expect a flurry of bills being filed as legislators try to beat each other to get that distinct position of having filed the first bill, although it is almost certain House Bill 001 or Senate Bill 001 could be nothing but a rehashed version of one that was not enacted during the 18th Congress...

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Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the Philippines is looking forward to future initiatives under the umbrella of the ASEAN Plus Three (China, Japan, Korea) cooperation to help accelerate the country’s shift from coal to sustainable energy sources...

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The administration of United States President Joe Biden used last week's US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Special Summit to talk up his forthcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which tries to make up for Washington's new unwillingness to negotiate the kind of market-opening trade deals Asian leaders like, according to a Foreign Policy report...

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Taiwan should be allowed to attend a World Health Organization assembly next week, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday, arguing the democratically governed island’s exclusion at China’s behest was unwarranted and a concern for global health...

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The Asean bloc is moving towards a stronger stance on the issue of South China Sea (SCS) territorial dispute, even as the US bared fresh initiatives for member-states to enhance maritime domain awareness and other maritime-related undertakings...

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The maritime cooperation between the United States and Asean members would include training for practical applications like monitoring illegal fishing and search and rescue operations, according to Daniel Kritenbrink, US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs...

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The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 at least five months after completion of the primary vaccine series...

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The cost of life-saving treatment for the most severely malnourished children is set to jump by up to 16% due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pandemic disruptions, according to the United Nations’ children’s agency...

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Digitalization will help protect the world’s supply chains from future pandemics and climate change, according to an expert from the Asian Development Bank (ADB)...

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China's zero-Covid policy will hold back a full air travel recovery in the Asia-Pacific region, a top airline industry group warned on Tuesday, adding to calls for Beijing to ease its hardline policy...

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Shanghai declared on Tuesday it had achieved "zero-Covid" across all its districts, sparking derision on social media as millions in China's biggest city remained under lockdown...

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Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting “test tourism” in the form of limited package tours in May as a way of gathering information prior to a full re-opening of the country to tourism...

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The European Union could combine import tariffs on Russian oil with the phased oil embargo it is trying to put in place to shrink Russia’s energy revenues, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday...

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North Korean military medics ramped up the distribution of medicines to fight a growing coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Tuesday, with the number of reported cases of "fever" nearing 1.5 million...

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Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steelworks — the last holdout of troops defending the southern port city of Mariupol — Kyiv said on Monday...

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The United States said on Monday it is easing restrictions imposed during former president Donald Trump's administration on travel to Cuba and on the sending of family remittances between the United States and the communist island...

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The Department of Finance (DoF) is eyeing opportunities that will support the country’s shift to clean and renewable energy sources...

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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has launched a program that will allow Filipinos returning from Ukraine to exchange their Ukrainian hryvnia (UAH) to peso to support migrants displaced from the war-stricken country...

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The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has deferred the proclamation of winning party-list groups until the holding of the special elections in 12 barangays in Tubaran, Lanao del Sur, on May 24...

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A multiagency body tasked with investigating gross human rights violations committed over the past 12 years has stopped looking into 29 of around 350 cases due to the absence of witnesses or lack of interest by complainants, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said on Tuesday...

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There is nothing illegal if Vice President-elect Sara Duterte-Carpio or other winning candidates in the May 9, 2022 elections take their oath of office before June 30, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said...

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The overflow of food donations for the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) has prompted the election watchdog to initiate a project outside its mandate: its own food drive...

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Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said sustaining the fuel-marking program will be included in the list of their recommended measures for the next economic team as it helped beef up revenues for the government...

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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Tuesday, May 17, said that their latest poll return validation showed that 53,644 out of 54,412 physical and fully-encoded electronic returns (ERs) have matched the electronically-transmitted copies...

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A group of taxpayers has asked the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the proclamation of Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., who is set to win this year’s presidential election by a landslide...

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Philippine health authorities on Tuesday confirmed the local transmission of a more contagious Omicron subvariant that has become dominant in the US...

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Presumptive President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has asked former Labor secretary Bienvenido Laguesma and overseas Filipino workers advocate Susan “Toots” Ople to join his Cabinet, his spokesperson disclosed on Tuesday...

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Only the winning senators will be proclaimed by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) sitting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC) this week...

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The Department of Health is still waiting for the World Health Organization’s guidance regarding the second booster dose for other eligible groups...

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The Commission on Elections (Comelec), acting as the National Board of Canvassers (NBOC), has recorded discrepancies in the certificates of canvass (COCs) from some polling places, especially in the votes for certain senatorial candidates and party-list groups...

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The Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) on Tuesday, May 17, said that their latest poll return validation showed that 53,644 out of 54,412 physical and fully-encoded electronic returns (ERs) have matched the electronically-transmitted copies...

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The lifting of the open-pit mining ban in South Cotabato sparked outrage here with environmental and religious groups calling those who opposed it to join a solidarity march on Thursday...

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Covid-19 continues to be one of the leading causes of death in the country for the first two months of the year, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Tuesday...

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Senate sources on Tuesday have identified some personalities who will likely join the chamber’s minority bloc under the 19th Congress...

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The Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) would not comment if the painting seen on the wall of former First Lady Imelda Marcos was the missing “Reclining Woman VI” by Pablo Picasso...

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The Commission on Human Rights says subpoenas and requests for vital reports and documents were often 'refused, denied, or ignored' by government agencies...

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Presumptive vice president Sara Duterte-Carpio said Monday she will neither lobby for officials hailing from Davao nor interfere in the appointment of Cabinet secretaries of presumptive president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr...

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Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) expects its loans to small businesses to increase by at least 9% this year as the economy continues to recover from the downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic...

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Three global banking giants have raised their economic growth forecasts for the Philippines this year to account for the better-than-expected 8.3-percent increase in domestic output in the first three months of 2022...

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Taxes generated from fuel marking amounted to P459.58 billion since the program started in September 2019, the Department of Finance said...

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The number of registered births and deaths in the two months to February declined by 63.2% and 60.4% year on year, respectively, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported...

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In a recently published research note, economists from Standard Chartered said they now expect monetary policy normalization by the Central Bank to “begin earlier” and “move at a faster pace” after the solid growth rate posted by the country in the first quarter of this year...

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San Miguel Corporation (SMC) envisions its P740-billion New Manila International Airport project in Bulacan province as a “massive, green-designed, and future-ready” aerocity development — a model for green urbanism in the country...

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The country’s rice inventory in March plunged by more than a fifth year-on-year to 1.632 million metric tons (MMT), as stocks in households dropped by a double-digit rate, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said...

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The Philippine cold chain industry is projected to continue growing at 8 to 10 percent per annum over the next 5 years, according to Cold Chain Association of the Philippines (CCAP)...

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