ONB pilots micro banking offices
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) last September 13has approved the request of One Network Bank, to establish five Micro-Banking Offices or MBOs in...
Inflation up 5.2%
The country’s inflation rate, based on 2006 prices, rose to 5.2 percent in October this year from 4.8 percent in September due to rising...
Japanese senior citizens look at Davao City for their retirement
Older Japanese are knocking at the doors of the Tokyo office of the Department of Tourism (DOT) to inquire about how they could retire...
Biz groups join ranks backing PAL
Some of the country’s biggest business groups on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Philippine Airlines (PAL) as they joined calls for swifter and more decisive...
Local rubber industry facing bright future
Mindanao’s rubber industry is seen to shine with the interest of foreign investors to venture in tire manufacturing in the Philippines. This projection was...
Panama disease solution discovered?
PLANT pathologists, crop researchers and plantation managers are agog over the reported discovery of a way to check the dreaded Panama disease (fusarium wilt)...
Davao City families spend more money on food, housing rental
by Greg G. Deligero Families in Davao City, the least poor city in the Davao region, spend more money on food and house...
Catchment basins eyed for flood control
As used in other urban centers, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is bent to push for the establishment of catchment or...
DTI, DILG align investment, incentives code
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) issued a joint Memorandum Circular on the Formulation of...
DavOr on the road to rice self-sufficiency: Governor
From 42% rice-sufficiency when she assumed office, Davao Oriental Governor Corazon Malanyaon reported that the province is now 60% rice-sufficient, and it will not...