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Metro Mayors lift unified curfew hours in NCR

The Metro Manila Council (MMC) approved a resolution, lifting the prevailing standardized and unified curfew hours in the National Capital Region starting Thursday, Nov. 4.

‘Marayum:” Online community dictionary preserves PH indigenous languages

Targeting to empower native languages with the help of new technology, a team of computer scientists and linguists from the University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD) developed a dictionary-making tool that can be used as an online dictionary platform for Philippine indigenous languages.

Philippine financial system sustains resilience amid COVID-19 challenges in first half of 2021

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) released the Report on the Philippine Financial System for the First Semester of 2021. The Report underscored the sustained resilience of the Philippine financial system...

Duterte admin seeks to amend the BOT IRR

  The Duterte administration seeks to amend the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) Law. To pursue the amendments of the BOT IRR, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte designated Socioeconomic Planning...

Bello: KSA to pay P4.6-B unpaid salaries of OFWs in December

The government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is expected to pay P4.6 billion in unpaid salaries to 9,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were forced to return to the Philippines after they stopped receiving remuneration.

Highway Patrol Group to assist DOTr in pilot run of increase of PUV capacity

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Police Gen. Guillermo Eleazar directed the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) to assist and coordinate with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) with their 30-day pilot study of the gradual increase in the number of passengers allowed in public utility vehicles.

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