Jaecoo’s second luxury off-road SUV – the J8 – is set to make its debut in the global market after it was unveiled at the Geneva International Motor Show in Doha, Qatar last October, The J8 perfectly integrates passionate off-roading with luxury intelligence, comfort, and safety. It is the epitome of JAECOO’s value proposition, “From Classic, Beyond Classic.”  The Jaecoo …

Caltex, marketed by Chevron Philippines, opened a total of 359 Do-It-For-Me (DIFM) Caltex Havoline autoPro, Caltex Havoline bikePro and Caltex Delo Sports oil change workshops in strategic locations nationwide to serve Filipino motorists better. These Caltex-branded workshops offer a range of services from lubrication, comprehensive engine repairs and tune-ups, wheel alignment to general maintenance, car wash and detailing.  These workshops …

Honda Cars Philippines, Inc. (HCPI) announced a voluntary safety recall of 1,025 2022 Honda Civic units to replace the electric power steering gearbox that has been found that its worm gear was improperly installed or manufactured. The grease applied on the worm gear was depleted, causing a stick slip leading to an unusual sound when turning the steering wheel. No …

By Boy Villasanta What a way to celebrate Women’s Month! For a progressive Filipino woman like versatile artist Gem Suguitan, winning the Grand Prize of the first ever Sining Filipina, an all-female art competition in the Philippines held recently at the SM Aura in Taguig City is like conquering, embodying and advocating the ideals of equality before the sexes. Because …

By Boy Villasanta The name Mike Feria, an entertainment writer has been quite popular in Philippine show business especially in the early 80s and 90s but he opted to leave the country and stay in the United States to advance his studies in arts and medicine. In the US, Mike sported his real name Mauro Feria Tumbocon, Jr. but still …

By Rose de la Cruz It took House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez to involve a full-blown House probe into the illegal operation of a resort inside the Chocolate Hills protected park that was supposed to host this year a swimming competition by the local government of Bohol, despite a closure order slapped by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. …

With 100,000 hectares of sugarcane fields in the country’s sugar capital – Bacolod, Negros Occidental –  having been affected by the ongoing drought, supply will be further tight and would necessitate more imports. The United Sugar Producers Federations of the Philippines (UNIFED) said rising temperatures and lack of rain have devastated vast tracts of sugarcane fields in the Negros provinces, …

The Department of Agriculture has alloted P24.9-billion for machineries procurement of the Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) even as PhilMech has distributed 26,412 farm equipment over the last four years funded by the Rice Competitiveness Enhancement Fund. The farm machineries, distributed between mid-2020 and March 3, 2024 were delivered to 368 local government units (LGUs) and 6,385 …

State-run Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) recently inaugurated agri-hubs in Oriental Mindoro and Misamis Occidental, in its continued bid to boost the rice production and economic activities in these provinces. LANDBANK has been establishing agri-hubs in the country’s top rice-producing provinces to bring various financial services under one roof. These include banking services such as account opening, withdrawals, and …

Personal remittances from Overseas Filipinos (OFs) registered US$3.15 billion in January 2024, higher by 2.7 percent than the US$3.07 billion recorded in the same month last year. The increase in personal remittances in January 2024 was driven by increased remittances from land-based workers with work contracts of one year or more and 2) sea- and land-based workers with work contracts …