Updated News in PH
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THE Covid-19 pandemic is still affecting business confidence in the Philippines with enterprises remaining pessimistic despite reduced negative consumer sentiment, according to two Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) surveys released on Friday. The third quarter 2021 confidence index (CI) — calculated as the percentage of companies that answered “yes” minus those that answered “no” — […]
STATE-RUN Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) said its members availed of its housing loan and voluntary savings program in unprecedented numbers in the first eight months of the year. According to its statement released on Friday, home loans totaled P58.52 billion from January to August, assisting 57,235 members in realizing their dream of homeownership. […]
THE Philippines logged 18,659 new cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), pushing the total to 2.453 million, although there were no recorded deaths on Friday, according to the Department of Health (DoH). The “zero” deaths was due to a glitch in the CovidKaya system, which the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is […]
AS the 2022 nationals and local polls draw near, President Rodrigo Dutetre on Friday renewed his appeal for peace, saying he would be forced to use the “might of the military” just to ensure the election is peaceful and violence-free. In his speech during the inauguration of the new Sultan Kudarat Provincial Hospital, Duterte expressed […]
MY assessment of the situation with China Evergrande in China is that it is not, and will not be, a comparable situation with the decline of Lehman Brothers during the global financial crisis just over 10 years ago. After all, the American investment bank was a bank and the closure of the bank also became […]
THE Pasig River Expressway (Parex) project of San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is a proposed six-lane elevated expressway that will traverse the length of the Pasig River, about 19.37 kilometers of new concrete structures that will sit above the Pasig River. This month, the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) approved and signed a Supplemental Toll Operations Agreement […]
A ‘hot Saturn’ with a difference, that’s WASP-127b. Although it’s 525 light years away, we’ve learned a surprising amount about the planet’s atmosphere. Details come via the ongoing Europlanet Science Congress 2021, now being held virtually for pandemic reasons, at which Romain Allart (iREx/Université de Montréal and Université de Genève) spoke this week. WASP-127b is […]
The net profit of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) climbed by triple digits in the first seven months of the year, according to figures released on Friday. The central bank’s financial statement showed that it netted P48.71 billion over the period, up from P13.90 billion a year ago. There was no explanation given for […]
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez 3rd revealed the plans for the reorganization of the government-owned Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC), following its transfer to his department. According to the Department of Finance (DoF), the members of the reconstituted PCIC Board formalized the election of Dominguez as chairman and Agriculture Secretary William Dar as vice chairman during […]
