LOOK: BSP Gov. Benjamin Diokno releases the new P20 coin with the portrait of former President Manuel Quezon and the enhanced P5 coin with nine sides and bearing the image of Andres Bonifacio on Tuesday, Dec. 17. 📸 | Marianne Bermudez/PDI
The CEO of an Ayala company said the government should not depend everything on the private sector in trying to survive the health crisis.
It wouldn’t be sustainable, said Arthur Tan, CEO of Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc., who called this overdependence “false hope.”
Asia Brewery and Tanduay Distillers of the Lucio Tan Group have produced disinfectant alcohol to help stem the spread of Covid-19. An initial 5,000 4-liter bottles will be donated to the Department of Health with another 5,000 to be donated to other groups under the first phase.
JUST IN: The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange Index opens 1.89% lower at 6,632.35 a day after the elections indicating a landslide win for dictator's son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. & weakening US markets overnight.
PSEi continues to drop, now at -3.14%. |
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Shopee Philippines is under DTI investigation for possibly violating the consumer act, after alleged changes in its mechanics left over a hundred fans of South Korean girl group
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spending a lot without the promised meet and greet.
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Coca-Cola Philippines was supposed to use P150 million for its ads. But instead, it’s using the money to help relief efforts, such as providing personal protective equipments and beverages to frontliners, as well as delivering food packs to vulnerable communities|
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Green Cross is going out of its way to help protect the frontliners of the health crisis, even when it’s been making nearly four times more alcohol bottles than it used to before. |
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JUST IN: Shopee PH, in response to the online flak it is getting from choosing Toni Gonzaga as brand ambassador, told the Inquirer that popular female celebrity was chosen for her "mass appeal" & not her political leanings. |
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Century Pacific Food, Inc., the country’s biggest canned food maker, has announced it will be providing aid and one million food packs to Filipinos amid the COVID-19 outbreak. |
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Can an employee refuse to go to work in MECQ areas if the employer does not provide a company shuttle?
DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez said that this is an issue that has to be internally settled.
But if the worker refuses, then the worker might lose his or her job.
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ABS-CBN Corp.'s movies are going to Bollywood, 5 films featuring stars Kathryn Bernardo & Daniel Padilla will be adapted for the Indian market. |
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McDonald’s has transformed its party rooms to give teachers a sanitized, quiet working space where they can prepare distance learning lessons — complete with free McCafé coffee! In branches with WiFi, they will also get free WiFi access.
The Makati Business Club urged lawmakers to renew the franchise of ABS-CBN Corp., a move which would signal to potential investors that the rule of law prevails over politics. |
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Lack of reliable supply forces Good Shepherd to switch to white ube from the traditional purple. The culprit? Climate change that has made it difficult for farmers to grow the purple ube. |
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READ: All Ayala Malls will be closed starting tomorrow until further notice, the company announced on Sunday. Tenants deemed part of the “essentials” like supermarkets will remain open. |
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Here is the presidential adviser for entrepreneurship talking about why we should isolate the sick, not the healthy — which, in a way, sounds like why we should isolate the rich, but let the poor go to work. |
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Days before the Anti-Terrorism bill lapses into law, more than 250 organizations from different sectors have appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to veto the measure, which raised fears of human rights violations at a time when the country is struggling with a pandemic.
Manuel Villar, a self-made businessman and former politician, has an estimated net worth of $5.7 billion. The founder of Vista Land group ranked 298th out of 2,095 billionaires counted by Forbes.
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The Lucio Tan group has also deployed the PNB Bank on Wheels to help Filipinos who need cash but can’t go to a bank or ATM. |
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BREAKING: The Philippine Competition Commission (PCC) has ordered Uber to continue its services beyond April 8, delaying Grab’s takeover deal for weeks, or even months. |
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Employees hail Jollibee Foods Corp. for providing P1B to pay for the 1-mo salary and 13th month pay to employees unable to work for a month following a gov’t implementation of a work stoppage as part of its enhanced community quarantine measure to curb the spread of COVID19.
LOOK: This is one of Gardenia’s largest bread manufacturing plants in the country. This P2 billion automated plant in Pampanga could produce 200,000 loaves and buns per day. |
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The Makati Business Club said the shutdown of ABS-CBN Corp. will not only deal a blow to press freedom, but will also be a setback at a time when it’s the pandemic we should be up against, not the press. |
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“I mean, we all want to help. But if the idea is that we’re going to help to the level that there will no longer be an economy to come back to, I think that’s false hope,” he said. |
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Senator Imee Marcos, who chairs the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs, then said that perhaps Masagana 99 was successful in rice exportation. However, Finance Secretary Dominguez disputed her statement again: “Ma’am, no, we never exported rice.”
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Newly crowned Miss Universe Catriona Gray featured Philippine culture in her attire, using an intellectual property-protected cloth by a group of T’boli women weavers, says the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines. |
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Procter & Gamble (P&G) Philippines has announced that its manufacturing plant in Cabuyao City, Laguna will be one of the P&G manufacturing sites globally that will produce critically needed face masks to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. |
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On April 12, the Department of Labor and Employment even asked businesses to keep paying their workers during the lockdown.
But if big companies are already struggling, what more the MSMEs which do not have any means to earn, therefore have nothing to pay their workers with?
The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) $3-million grant for the Philippines will be used by the Department of Health (DOH) to buy additional emergency medical supplies needed in the fight against the COVID-19 disease. |
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UPDATE: SM Mall of Asia announced that the iconic wordmark is up. The country’s first
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store at the SM Mall of Asia Complex will open soon. |
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San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is reviving Nutribun, the vitamin-packed bread, for distribution to charitable groups and critical Metro Manila communities where families have either no access to, or unable to afford, food amid the Covid-19 outbreak. |
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“But constantly just giving away everything, or asking private industry to support everything, is not gonna be sustainable,” he said.
He said this during the first online general membership meeting of the Management Association of the Philippines on Tuesday. |
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San Miguel Corp. is set to buy fresh carabao’s milk from farmer-cooperatives struggling to cope with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, to be donated to poor communities and food banks in and around Metro Manila. |
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During the lockdown, the government has been reliant on what the private sector could do, especially in the beginning.
All of a sudden, many companies in essential businesses were expected to provide free lodging and free transportation for their workers. |
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LOOK: Filipino fast food chain Binalot has kept 5 of its outlets open during the lockdown to deliver free meals to hospitals in Metro Manila.
We’ve been making 900 meals a day, said Company President and CEO
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. |
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The Henry Sy Playbook: 9 lessons from PH’s richest man |
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[Note: This news feature was originally posted on March 19, 2018. Today, January 19, 2019, Henry Sy Sr.passed away peacefully in his sleep.]
The country’s IT-BPM industry group has distanced itself from POGOs, after Malacanang suddenly considered POGOs as BPOs and allowed them to resume operations.
In a statement, IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) listed reasons why POGOs are not BPOs.
JUST IN: ABS-CBN 2020 results:
Losses +400% to P13.53B, revenues -50% to P21.42B due to Duterte admin shutdown of free-to-air broadcasts.
ABS paid P1.1B in separation benefits to employees. Company cut over 4,500 jobs, including 2,674 regular employees. |
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Converge ICT says it’s working to resolve major outage in Metro Manila, nearby provinces.
Downdetector shows the problem started earlier this morning. |
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Rustan Coffee Corporation, the authorized licensee of Starbucks stores in the Philippines, said they implemented today a P5-increase in the prices of all their beverages. |
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“Is that something I expect out of the Philippines? Probably not. We have our own set of problems,” he said.
He said should look at the issue not just from a health perspective, but from an economic one as well, because the economy supports people.
“I think that is important.”
San Miguel Corp., the country’s largest conglomerate, is set to become the first Filipino company to utilize fully certified biodegradable plastic packaging.
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In the company’s experience, the Philippines may be the only one which had banned public transporation during the lockdown.
Moreover, China subsidized IMI nearly $2M to keep paying its workers in one of its factories, after its operations were closed because of the lockdown.
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The company has manufacturing operations in other parts of the world, producing electronics for the automotive, the industrial, and the aerospace market.
This has shown Tan how other countries responded to the crisis, doing more in areas where the PH may have stopped short. |
LOOK: Abaca’s unique, porous fibers are ideal for making medical fabric. The crop has rapidly become a prized commodity as countries all over the world try to stop the spread of COVID-19 w/o a vaccine, armed only with masks & PPE to save lives. (📷: PhilFIDA) |
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“I would like to assure our kababayans (countrymen) that San Miguel Corporation’s food and beverage facilities continue to operate and that San Miguel will have enough food stocks for everyone throughout this crisis,” SMC president said. |
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San Miguel Corp. is donating 560,000 kilos of rice to various communities throughout Metro Manila as part of its ongoing initiative to help mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on the hardest-hit Filipino families. |
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“Please tell the people. Don’t panic. There will be food and [basic] necessities. More than enough. There is no need to panic,” said DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez in a viber message to reporters, as the community quarantine extends to the rest of Luzon. |
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SMART Head of Consumer Wireless Jane Basas on talks with Son Ye Jin: “She knew of SMART because her friend Hyun Bin is an endorser.... I guess she trusted the brand because Hyun Bin trusted the brand.” |
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BREAKING: ABS-CBN Corp. offers Duterte admin the use its nationwide transmission assets for public education.
It’s also offering the use of its library of educational content produced over the past 20 years. |
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Meet the Department of Agriculture's newest poster boy. The agency tapped actor-singer James Reid to be its ambassador on food security. This is part of the agency's efforts to promote the industry to the youth.
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San Miguel Corp. has donated over 8,400 sacks of flour to LGUs, bakers around Metro Manila to help keep small businesses afloat while ensuring that affordable, nutritious breads are available to their communities. A 25-kg bag of flour can make about 1,600 pieces of pandesal.
The net inflows of foreign direct investments (FDI) into the Philippines fell by 34% to $488 million in May from $739 million in the same month of 2022, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas. |
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JUST IN: Only the China Telecom-backed bidder, Davao businessman Dennis Uy's Udenna Group, passes the first qualification round in the bidding to break the PLDT-Globe duopoly blamed for poor internet services in the country. |
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Malls will be closed, except for drug stores, banks, and other basic services. This will start tomorrow until the end of the community quarantine, said DTI Secretary Ramon Lopez |
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Coca-Cola has partnered with one of the world’s largest producers of plastic bottles to put a P1 billion recycling facility, which will be the largest of its kind here in the Philippines. |
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Pres. Duterte will leave to his successor “an impressive P1.4 trillion worth of projects ready to be implemented” compared to just P50 billion at the end of Benigno Aquino III’s term, according to Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III. |
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BASAHIN: Tiniyak ng Mercury Drug na maibabalik ang supply ng mga face masks matapos itong magkaubusan dahil sa ashfall na dulot ng pagsabog ng Bulkang Taal.
The Meralco team puts finishing touches on the Rizal Memorial Stadium. The Rizal Memorial Stadium is being converted into a government COVID19 medical facility. |
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Teresita Herbosa, former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said owners are allowed to decide what to do with their corporations but not the NTC or members of Congress. |
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JUST IN: Jollibee chairman Tony Tan Caktiong: "The acquisition of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® brand will be JFC’s largest and most multinational so far with business presence in 27 countries."
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This is not just a health crisis anymore. It’s an economic issue too, one that millions of suddenly displaced workers will understand as hunger.
And even business groups are worried. This, 32 groups said, “may trigger violence and longer term social tensions.” |
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Phinma joins the entire country in celebrating Ninoy Aquino Day, a national non-working holiday commemorating the assassination of former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr. at the tarmac of Manila International Airport. |
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AirAsia Philippines awards Olympic silver medalist Nesthy Petecio w/ free unlimited flights for 5 years.
AirAsia PH adds 14 other Filipino Olympians to get 3 free round trip tickets to any domestic destination. |
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If Apple has Siri and Google has Alexa, BPI has Bea, digital banking assistant who can help user view balance, transfer money, pay BPI credit card. |
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