Following the suspension of granting new contracts for greenfield coal power projects in the country, the Department of Energy (DoE) has recently okayed 928 more renewable energy contracts with a combined capacity of 30GW as of May 2021. The DoE has been aggressively...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced that it will now begin the second stage of the Hydrochlorofluorocarbons Phase-out Management Plan (HPMP), which will run until 2022. The HPMP eventually aims to phase out the use of ozone-depleting...
On September 28, 2021, regional telehealth platform Doctor Anywhere and Philippine conglomerate Equicom Group, announced a joint venture (JV) to launch a telemedicine platform and develop a comprehensive digital healthcare ecosystem in the Philippines. Key features of...
PLDT Inc., through PLDT Enterprise and its wireless arm Smart Communications. Inc., is in an advanced stage of discussion with long-time partner Nokia to provide next-generation Internet of Things (IoT) services for its customers. Together, Smart and Nokia intend to...
It’s all systems go for the much-anticipated Pasig River Expressway (PAREX), touted to be the country’s first green, hybrid expressway, as proponent San Miguel Corporation (SMC), together with the government already broke ground for the 19.37-kilometer project. The...
US-based AEsir Technologies has announced a partnership with Eramen Minerals located in Manilla, Philippines to construct a 1.5 GWh Nickel Zinc (NiZn) battery manufacturing facility in the Philippines. The partnership will represent a vertically integrated business...
Alfamart Philippines, the SM Group’s minimart chain, announced that the company is on track to expand its retail footprint to over 1,200 stores this year with the opening of at least 200 stores across Luzon in 2021. In 2020, Alfamart opened 267 stores within Metro...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) led the inauguration of the Philippines’ first Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) Shrimp Hatchery and Broodstock Development Center in Barangay Labasan, Bongabong, Oriental Mindoro. The PHP...
The Philippine government inaugurated the new PHP 63.1 million (USD 1.25 million) hangar facility at the Philippine Army’s Aviation Regiment in Fort Ramon Magsaysay in September 2021. Fort Ramon Magsaysay is about a 3-hour drive north of the country’s...
In mid-September 2021, the Philippine Senate unanimously approved Senate Bill 1156, a new bill that will amend the country’s foreign investment law, the Foreign Investments Act (FIA) of 1991. It is one of the key economic measures that President Rodrigo Duterte...
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in collaboration with the National Irrigation Administration (NIA), constructed and turned over a solar-powered irrigation system (SPIS) worth PHP 10 million (USD 200,000) to farmers in Barangay Talisay in San Andres, Quezon. The...
The Provincial Government of Cavite (PGC) has set September 20, 2021, as the deadline for the submission of bid proposals for the development of Sangley Point International Airport (SPIA), located in Manila Bay and approximately 13 km southwest of the capital. In...
