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Malacañang remains optimistic in meeting its macroeconomic targets amid the lower-below-expected Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the second quarter of the year.

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has collected an initial P186 million in withholding taxes from Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) and is getting another P170 million this month in tax payments from these businesses employing foreign nationals.

With global growth likely to remain sluggish for the remainder of 2019, the government must exert all efforts in boosting domestic demand and exports’ competitiveness to improve the Philippines’ trade performance, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.

Not only is Iza Calzado the senior among the bunch of these young beauties in local tinsel town she’s also the most independent of them all.

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) announced on Friday that beginning Thursday next week (August 15), motorists who have paid the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) fees from August 1, 2009, to January 15, 2010, will be given refunds from their local LTO offices.

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said the growth of 5.5 percent in the second quarter was not an unexpected result given the residual effects of the four-months-and-a-half delay in the passage of the 2019 national budget by the House of Representatives.

Despite the onset of the lean months of July to September, a period when palay harvest is very scant as natural calamities traditionally hit various parts of the country, the National Food Authority (NFA) is still able to buy palay from farmers and even surpass procurement targets.

Almost every office has a Wi-Fi network today, and sometimes more than one.

The Philippines is working to bridge its trade gap with Indonesia by exporting more agricultural products and automobile parts.

The National Food Authority (NFA) already surpassed its palay procurement target for the first half of 2019 with over 5 million bags bought since January this year, according to Atty. Judy Carol L. Dansal, the newly-appointed NFA Administrator.