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The government may have to shell out as much as P6.7 billion if it were to proceed with its plan to lease replacement units for the 97,000 vote counting machines (VCM) for the next elections, according to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). During the hearing of the Senate Committee on…
The Senate, during its hybrid plenary session today (May 23), approved on second reading a bill seeking to establish the Bulacan Airport City Special Economic Zone and Freeport. Senator Imee R. Marcos, chairwoman of the Senate economic affairs committee, however, was able to convince her colleagues
THE Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) on Monday stood pat on its proposal to import sugar, sounding the alarm that the country may grapple with a shortage and high prices of the sweetener by the third quarter. In a statement, SRA Administrator Hermenegildo R. Serafica explained that the country could face…
THE Philippines is mulling over importing 350,000 metric tons (MT) of sugar to plug the shortfall in domestic supply and arrest skyrocketing prices of the sweetener. A draft Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) Sugar Order (SO) obtained by the BusinessMirror showed that the agency plans to open an importation program of…