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The delay in the rebuilding of war-torn Marawi City has partly caused a slight increase in poverty in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), the lone region where poverty incidence rose although the nationwide rate dropped…
CEBU CITY, Philippines –The Bogo-Medellin Medical Center, Inc. in Barangay Luy-a, where Medellin Councilor and former town mayor Ricky Ramirez was placed under hospital arrest for almost a year now, is located in an isolated area that…
RELATIONS between China and the Philippines, including Cebu, are expected to continue improving in the coming months, especially in terms of tourism. Consul General Jia Li, the newly appointed consul of the Consulate of the People’s Republic…
BINIBINING Cebu Tourism 2017 Samantha Lo was hailed as one of the grand winners in the Global Asian Model (GLAM) Philippines 2018 held at XYLO at The Palace in Taguig City last Nov. 8. Lo, who represented Cebu,…
Makati City’s total assets soared to more than P195 billion in 2017, enabling it to dethrone Quezon City as the richest city in the country, the Commission on Audit (COA) said in its report. In COA’s 2017…
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has ordered the filing of drug charges against self-confessed drug distributor Kerwin Espinosa, convicted drug lord Peter Co and four others. In its resolution, the DOJ panel of prosecutors reversed last year…
THE Duterte administration’s infrastructure push continues to be hampered by bureaucratic bottlenecks, as shown by the Department of Public Works and Highways’ use of only a third of its P662.69-billion funding in 2017. Even as the DPWH…
Overcrowding in the country’s jails — housing suspects who have not even been convicted yet — got worse last year, as the Duterte administration waged its war on illegal drugs. The Commission on Audit (COA) said the…
AYALA Land’s (ALI) property units in Cebu will continue to grow their respective companies despite the impending merger which is expected to happen within the year. Cebu Holdings Inc. (CHI) and its subsidiary Cebu Property Ventures Development…
THE SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS She arrived with three boxes of pizza and a Black Forest cake. Regine Villamejor, University of San Jose Recoletos (USJR) 2017 Magna Cum Laude, visited Cebu Daily News in the afternoon of…
New investment pledges in the manufacturing sector plunged last year to almost 50 percent due to the uncertainty brought by the tax reform law, top officials of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said on Wednesday. New…
13th MONTH PAY ONLY 340 business establishments out of an estimated hundreds of thousands of them in Central Visayas have given their employees their 13th month last year. Luchel Taniza, Department of Labor and Employment in Central…
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