As part of the Bureau of Customs' (BOC) drive against smuggling, the Customs Intelligence and Investigation Service Field Office-Intellectual Property Rights Division (CIIS-IPRD) and BOC-Port of Manila seized smuggled counterfeit goods amounting to an estimated value of P80 million in Pasay City last Feb. 28.
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion jointly hosted the Knowledge Exchange Program on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) for Financial Inclusion earlier this March.
Nairobi – The Philippines joined other countries in adopting the historic resolution to end plastic pollution at the resumed session of the fifth UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2) in Nairobi held from Feb. 28 to Mar. 2.
The country’s gross international reserves (GIR) level, based on preliminary data, rose to US$107.98 billion as of the end-February 2022 from the end-January 2022 level of US$107.69 billion.
Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go called on the government to intensify fire prevention programs so they can meet local prevention needs following the recent fire incidents at a residential area in Iloilo City and Oton town public market.
