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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has allowed Tonik Digital Bank and UNObank to operate as digital banks, bringing to three the number of financial companies in the new bank classification.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) plans to transfer its mint and production facility to a new complex at New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac – better than the existing Security Plant Complex in Quezon City – by second quarter of 2022.

Factory output recorded a 162.1% growth in April due to low-base effects even with the closure of an oil refinery that dampened domestic manufacturers’ total production volume.

Countries need to invest billions of pesos in protecting and caring for nature to avoid another global pandemic, according to biodiversity financing strategist BIOFIN Philippines, adding that these investments can also help generate revenues.

The Department of Finance is not changing its decision allowing the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to impose higher income tax on private schools, adding that the BIR regulation can only be changed by the Supreme Court or by amending the Tax Code.

Senators are strongly appealing to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to reconsider increasing the income tax of private schools from 10% to 25% – a whooping 150% increase.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters aged 12 to 15 years, according to the Department of Health. 

Government will no longer require private companies to donate portion of their purchased AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the government vaccination program, according to presidential adviser for entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion.

The Philippines may be able to enforce the 2016 arbitral ruling on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) by passing a law that will amend the Baseline Law, according to former Supreme Court associate justice Francis Jardeleza.

Just when people thought that portions of Manila Bay are dead and incapable of sheltering marine life, a group of divers accidentally discovered a coral garden in Ternate, Cavite last May 17. The dive was originally intended to install four marker buoys for the boundaries of the Core Zone of Ternate Marine Park (Tmp) and two artificial reefs. It was …