Bloomberry Cultural Foundation, Inc.(BCFI) and the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) have completed and turned over the country’s largest COVID-19 quarantine facility, the Solaire-PAGCOR Mega Quarantine Facility, to the Integrated Agency Task Force (IATF). The facility, funded by BCFI, Solaire Resort and Casino’s corporate social responsibility arm, is currently the National Capital Region’s largest quarantine facility. Built by Prime …
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AREIT acquires prime Grade A commercial development in Cebu
AREIT, Inc. (AREIT) signed a Deed of Sale with ALO Prime Realty Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of its Sponsor, Ayala Land, Inc., to acquire Teleperformance Cebu (TP Cebu).
Read More »PAL launches Mid-September Seat Sale
Philippine Airlines has launched a ‘September Deals’ promotion offering base air fares as low as P688 for one-way domestic flights and USD99 for round trip international tickets.
Read More »ICTSI Argentina handles imports for La Plata logistics hub
The shipment from Brazil were unloaded at TecPlata last month, and included a seismograph bound for the Vaca Muerta unconventional oil and gas field in Argentina’s Neuquen Province. The equipment will be used by Wellfield Industry Ltda.
Read More »Personal barter transactions allowed
Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez clarified that barter transactions on the internet are lawful as long as these are done personally and not performed as part of a business.
Read More »Online liquor sale grows to 154%
A new consumer behavior has appeared during the lockdown – increase in demand for beer delivery in cities without liquor bans, according to data from AB Heineken, through its partner e-Commerce platform Drinkies.ph.
Read More »Peso stable amid COVID-19
The Philippine peso has ranked first among four Asian currencies that maintained their value against the US dollar in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read More »Trade still contracting — NEDA
Preliminary figures released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the country’s total trade contracted 38.7% and the trade deficit shrank 48.9% in May 2020
Read More »Business loans mulled for job creation
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian wants the soonest passage of legislation that will create a business loan program to generate jobs to be able to “curb unemployment.”
Read More »E-commerce to get government support
The government’s economic managers are planning to institute reforms in the e-commerce industry after the current boom in digital transactions
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