The Philippine government is set to start the construction of three climate-resilient bridges that are designed to decongest Metro Manila’s traffic-heavy areas – the Marcos Highway-Saint Mary Avenue Bridge, the Homeowner’s Drive-A Bonifacio Bridge, and the...
New research from global giant payments, Visa, suggested that a fully cashless Philippine society may be possible in less than a decade. This is because more Filipinos are embracing digital payments out of necessity, two years into the COVID-19 pandemic. According to...
Optum Global Solutions Philippines, an American healthcare services and innovation company and a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, is celebrating its tenth year of operations in the Philippines. It has also announced plans to expand its operations in the country. The...
Systems Engineering & Assessment (SEA) have been appointed to supply its Torpedo Launcher System (TLS) to Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) for two new Philippine Navy corvettes. The contract follows the successful delivery of SEA’s TLS for the Philippine Navy’s...
Insurance company AIA Philippines has partnered with The Medical City (TMC) through its Cancer Institute and corporate foundation, Akbay Ginhawa Foundation, Inc., to make cancer care services more accessible and affordable for Filipinos. AIA welcomes the partnership...
The Metro Manila Subway is one of the Philippines’ largest infrastructure projects aimed at creating an efficient rail system in the world’s most densely populated city. As part of this push for development, construction has begun on a third Mass Rapid Transit line...
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said that it has approved the registration for the PHP 125-billion (USD 2 .4 billion) Quezon Techno-Industrial Special Economic Zone (QTISEZ) project, which will be the largest economic zone in the country. Local firm...
Amidst concerns about food security, particularly fish, the government through the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fish and Aquatic Resources (BFAR), has bolstered the aquaculture sector through expanding fish hatchery capacity and targeting higher fish...
The Philippines ’ Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is targeting to complete more than 400 infrastructure projects in the Zamboanga Peninsula (Region IX) that will be crucial to sustaining the economic development in Mindanao. Based on the 2021...
The Philippines and the United States signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation (NCMOU) in March 2022 in Washington D.C. to further deepen the cooperation between the two countries in developing the Philippines’ nuclear energy...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) through the National Dairy Authority (NDA) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have partnered with Baladna Qatar Public Shareholding Company (BQPSC) to build a USD 500 million integrated dairy facility in the Philippines....
AllDay Supermarket, one of the fastest-growing supermarkets in the Philippines and a retail arm of conglomerate Villar Group of Companies, has launched “smart carts” in its stores. AllDay has been at the forefront of bringing in first-to-market innovations in the...
