The top investor in the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) in 2021 is Japan, whose total accumulated investments from 1995 up to the present is now at PHP 716.22 billion (USD 14.98 billion) or accounting for 27% of the total PHP 2.63 trillion investments...
AC Energy Corporation is moving closer to its 2025 goal of achieving 5,000 MW of renewable energy target with the start of construction of the 160 MW Balaoi & Caunayan wind farm, the biggest wind farm in the Philippines to date. Once completed, AC Energy will...
The Quezon City government is now rolling out its ‘trash to cashback’ program in the entire city. The program allows residents to trade recyclable materials for environmental points (EP) that may be exchanged for basic commodities such as rice, eggs,...
Leading hospital group The Medical City has partnered with Ascent for the provision of air medical evacuation (medevac) services. Ascent is a Singapore-based on-demand air mobility, tech-powered service provider for booking helicopters and planes in Asia. Ascent has...
The Philippines’ broadband and mobile internet speed have continued to improve as of April 2021 as shown in the Speedtest Global Index by Ookla, according to a statement issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) in May 2021. In Ookla’s April 2021...
Philippine conglomerate San Miguel Corp is considering building a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in its newly opened elevated expressway, Skyway, to ease commuter woes and decongest traffic in Manila. At early stages, the project remains on paper and is unlikely to...
Swiss holding company specializing in market expansion services Diethelm Keller Siber Hegner (DKSH) has signed a distribution agreement with Kemin Food Technologies, a global leader in shelf-life and food safety solutions, to provide its product range in the...
SM Prime Holdings has announced that it will open three new shopping malls as well as expand several existing malls in 2021. The planned mall launches and expansion projects will bring the total number of SM malls in the Philippines to 79 and add around 367,000 square...
The Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) under the Department of Agriculture has given conditional registration to two products of Syngenta Philippines, namely the Alika 247 ZC and the Match 050 EC, allowing it to be applied to crops with the use of drones. The...
German pharmaceutical and agricultural firm Bayer has built a second vegetable farm in the Philippines in line with its push for sustainable farming. Situated beside Southville 7 in Barangay Dayap in Calauan, Laguna, the 2,200-square meter farm is intended to support...
Cebu Pacific, the Philippines’ largest budget carrier, will push forward its plans to upgrade its entire fleet of Airbus to newer, more modern aircraft despite the negative impact to the air travel industry brought by the pandemic, the company said. The company...
The Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) and the Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) are aiming to upgrade its digital infrastructure by improving its e-governance and e-services, streamline and speed up government process to...
