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NO E-BIKES ON MAJOR NCR ROADS STARTING APRIL 15

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority will start implementing its MMDA Regulation No. 24-022 or the prohibition of e-bikes, e-trikes, tricycles, pedicabs, pushcarts, and kuligligs from traversing national roads, circumferential roads, and radial roads in Metro Manila on April 15.In a press conference after a stakeholder’s consultation meeting on the formulation of implementing rules and regulation […]

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DTI BOOSTS CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL VAPE SALES

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has further intensified its monitoring and enforcement operations against violators of Republic Act No. 11900 or the “Vaporized Nicotine and Non-Nicotine Products Regulation Act and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). With its heightened enforcement operations, the DTI covers both physical and online stores, confiscating over 18,000 non-compliant […]

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Politics

DICT URGED ANEW TO STOP ILLEGAL ONLINE GAMING

Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte is hopeful of a no-nonsense government drive against illegal online gaming this 2023, following the assurance last month by Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Secretary Ivan John Uy that his office would shut down—in tandem with gaming regulators and law enforcers—illicit gambling websites, and then throw the books […]

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CRACKDOWN ON ‘RIDING-IN-TANDEM’ CRIMES WELCOMED

Senator Dick Gordon welcomed President Duterte’s directive to the Philippine National Police (PNP) to curb the recent spike in crimes involving motorcycle-bound criminals, colloquially known as the “riding-in-tandem.” Gordon, the author of Republic Act (RA) 11235 or the Motorcycle Crime Prevention Act, said the directive issued to the PNP Chief Dionardo Carlos would further shed […]