December, 2020

• 4 December

  ICTSI Iraq delivers record performance

  

  The 6,589-TEU Yang Ming Mutuality recently departed Basra Gateway Terminal (BGT) in Um Qasr, Iraq following a record-breaking turnaround.

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November, 2020

• 28 November

  McDonald’s food and merch now available in LazMall

  

  Get ready to add to cart, because you can now get your hands on McDonald’s food and merchandise through e-commerce app Lazada! Spruce up your shopping spree haul with McDonald’s treats now available in LazMall, so you can easily plan ahead for advanced bulk orders, party packages, and exclusive merchandise with ease.

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• 26 November

  BSP Introduces Digital Banking Framework

  

  The Monetary Board approved the recognition of digital bank as a new bank category that is separate and distinct from the existing bank classifications.  Digital bank is defined as a bank that offers financial products and services that are processed end-to-end through a digital platform and/or electronic channels with no physical branches.

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• 26 November

  Holcim HELPS Marawi build over 200 houses with UN-Habitat, TESDA

  

  The partnership of Holcim Philippines with UN-Habitat and TESDA to help rebuild Marawi is off to a good start with over 200 houses already completed. Holcim Philippines is supporting the training of people from the community on masonry and carpentry so they can participate in the rebuilding their community and participate in other building projects in North Mindanao.   

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• 26 November

  OOCL, VICT set new benchmark for highest container exchange in Australia

  

  The OOCL Rotterdam (capable of accommodating 8,063 TEUs, 323m LOA and 42.8m BEAM) on the North East Asia A3 Central Service has set a new record within the Port of Melbourne and Australia for the highest container exchange in one single call – a total of 6,516 containers equating to 11,037 TEUs.

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• 26 November

  Czech Humanitarian Project Granted Evacuation Shelters and WASH Facilities

  

  The Czech Republic supports strengthening of capacities of evacuation centers and mitigating the spread of COVID-19 across the Philippines. With financial aid from the Czech Humanitarian Aid programme, alternative shelters and WASH facilities were provided to four Filipino cities of Navotas, Malabon, Cebu City, and Cagayan de Oro.

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• 26 November

  Puentespina Farms opens doors to DavOr’s cacao farmers, coops

  

  The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Rural Agro-enterprise Partnership for Inclusive Development and Growth (RAPID Growth) Project, in partnership with the Puentespina Farms, conducted a five-day intensive training on cacao processing, bean trading, and cacao economics among the seven cacao farmer organizations from Davao Oriental on November 16 to20.  

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• 19 November

  Peru is the guest country of honor at ‘Asia Fruit Logistica ON 2020’

  

  ✔ Asia is the third biggest market for the Peruvian agri-food export industry. ✔ Grapes, cranberries, avocados and mandarins are the top fresh Peruvian products imported  by Asia Peru will once again be the Official Partner Country at the virtual edition of the ‘Asia Fruit Logistica ON’ fresh food trade fair, considered to be the most important fair of its kind …

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• 19 November

  PH, US officials discuss VFA extension

  

  Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana recently discussed with US Embassy Charge d’Affaires John Law, among others, the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) that had been extended for another six months after President Rodrigo Duterte junked it earlier this year.

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• 19 November

  Palace dismisses calls for academic break

  

  Malacañang dismissed suggestions to declare an academic break in the aftermath of two destructive typhoons compounded by a deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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