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With an aim to build an “intelligent city,” the municipality of Cordova in Cebu province has tapped Globe Telecom, through its enterprise arm Globe Business, to give its 20,000 constituents access to GCash, a platform for money transfers. Through the municipality’s GCash-enabled “Citizens ID”, the residents will be able to conduct cashless transactions, including receiving […]
With the slew of complaints reaching Malacañang on alleged shenanigans committed by certain local government executives in the distribution of over P200 billion-worth of cash grants for coronavirus-hit poor families under President Duterte’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP), Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año should take immediate and forceful action against these abuses by suspending and prosecuting […]
With so many Filipinos struggling to find ways to gain access to medicine due to lack of funds, Senator Sonny Angara aired his concern over the continuing problem of medicine and drug overstocking at the Departtment of Health. Angara, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, has filed a resolution calling for an inquiry into […]
With the National Food Authority (NFA) Council approving the importation of 250,000 metric tons of rice via open tender, House Appropriations Chairperson Rep. Karlo “Ang Probinsyano” Nograles on Thursday urged the NFA management to ensure that the imported stocks would be distributed properly to prevent problems that have plagued rice stocks that were previously imported […]