DMCI group maintains positive outlook for 2024

MANILA: Diversified conglomerate DMCI Holdings Inc. has maintained its positive outlook for 2024 due to cooling inflation and stabilizing interest rates.

‘Overall, we expect the DMCI group to deliver another resilient performance this year,’ DMCI Hol…

Comelec: Voter signup resumes Feb. 12

MANILA: Voter registration for the May 2025 midterms elections would resume on Feb. 12, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) announced on Wednesday.

Comelec chairperson George Erwin Garcia, in a phone interview, said the voter registration period wi…

Silay City drug operation nets P1.1M shabu, firearms

BACOLOD: Police operatives seized PHP1.156 million in shabu and two firearms from three individuals during a buy-bust in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Wednesday.

Arrested were subject Elmer Abela Jr., 42, a fisherman from Barangay Mambulac, and his …

HCM City targets 8.5 mln USD per ha in export processing, industrial zones

The management board of the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (Hepza) has set a target to attract 550 million USD in investment capital this year, averaging 8.5 million USD per ha. Concurrently, the board aims to final…

Tax court returns to RTC the LRT tax refund suit vs. Manila

MANILA: The Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) has remanded to the Manila Regional Trial Court (RTC) a case involving local business taxes imposed by the City of Manila over the operator of Light Rail Transit-1.

In its 15-page decision dated January 4 writte…

PBBM hopeful for Veloso’s clemency; reports case progress to Widodo

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is hoping clemency will be given ‘at the appropriate time’ to Mary Jane Veloso as he relays the progress on the case filed against her recruiters in the Philippines.

During a meeting with Indonesian President…

Quake, typhoon-hit residents in Surigao Sur get TUPAD payments

BUTUAN CITY: At least 1,850 beneficiaries of the government’s cash-for-work program in Surigao del Sur on Tuesday received payments more than a month after a magnitude 7.4 earthquake and Tropical Storm Kabayan hit the area.

Some PHP6.5 million worth …