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(File photo) April 22, 2021 THE Cebu Provincial Government has allocated P4.5 billion for infrastructure projects in the towns and components cities, including P4.26 billion that has been poured into road improvements.
More than P1 billion worth of road concreting and improvement projects, which cover 88 kilometers, have been completed and inaugurated.
This is based on the March 19, 2021 data from the Cebu Provincial Engineering Office, said Sugbo News in a broadcast report.
Groundwork has already started for another 20 kilometers with an allocation of P2.7 billion.
The Cebu Provincial Government has also processed the documents needed to allocate at least P568 million for the concreting and improvement of roads with a total distance of 30 kilometers.
Easter chaos: Hundreds pour into Queenstown streets after bars close at midnight
3 Apr, 2021 09:57 PM
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Queenstown erupts into chaos after bars shut at midnight for Easter Sunday. Video / George Heard
Digital producer, Christchurch, NZ Heralddevon.bolger@nzme.co.nz
Chaos erupted in central Queenstown after the bars closed at midnight last night and hundreds of people poured out onto the street.
NZME photographer George Heard saw what happened and said it got out of control very quickly. The bars shut at midnight and so everyone got shoved outside onto the street and there were hundreds of people on Ballarat Street.
How the Joe Biden stimulus has poured fuel on a global market shake-up
16 Mar, 2021 04:25 AM
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The Biden stimulus, vaccine rollouts and the reopening of economies is realigning investors priorities as they move into banks, industrials and oil companies. Photo / AP
The Biden stimulus, vaccine rollouts and the reopening of economies is realigning investors priorities as they move into banks, industrials and oil companies. Photo / AP
Financial Times
By: Aziza Kasumov, Colby Smith and Naomi Rovnick
America s vast spending programme has added fuel to a powerful upheaval in global stocks, boosting shares in companies that were shunned during the height of the pandemic.
Donations pour in to help migrant mother whose husband died of heart attack
15 Mar, 2021 08:00 PM
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Buddhini Sooriyaachchi says she is grateful to donors who have contributed to help her and her two children Vinuga, 8, and Vinuth, 7 months. Photo / Alex Burton
Buddhini Sooriyaachchi says she is grateful to donors who have contributed to help her and her two children Vinuga, 8, and Vinuth, 7 months. Photo / Alex Burton
Lincoln Tan is the New Zealand Herald’s diversity, ethnic affairs and immigration senior reporter.lincoln.tan@nzherald.co.nz@LincolnTanNZH
Almost $20,000 in donations have poured in from Herald readers to help a Sri Lankan mother of two young children whose husband died suddenly in their West Auckland home just months before they qualified for a New Zealand residency application.