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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.

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) has reshuffled its officials holding key positions at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and two other airports as part of management’s thrust to revitalize the agency’s operations.

The past administration missed the opportunity to start closing the country’s yawning infrastructure gap by taking advantage of very low interest rates on loans that would have raised funds for these badly needed economic investments, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday led the 121st Independence Day rites at the Lanao del Sur military camp, reminding Filipinos that freedom is only as strong as the resolve to remain free.

Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has ordered Department of Finance (DOF) officials to study ways of actively engaging lawmakers in the incoming Congress to speed up the approval of the rest of the Duterte administration’s tax reform packages, as well as to apprise them of the untenability and adverse financial repercussions of certain legislative proposals.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday urged Moros to exploit their resources and take advantage of the transition from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to the new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) as mandated by the ratified Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL).