China welcomes US trade talks offer

AFP 09/13/2018

China welcomed on Thursday a US offer to hold fresh trade talks, adding that the two are discussing the details and providing some hope the world’s top economies could step back from the brink of an all-out…

DepEd alarmed over use of minors in drug trade

Futch Anthony Inso 08/31/2018

  A TOP education official expressed alarm after hearing reports that some minors in Barangay Tangke, Talisay City, were being used by drug traders in their operations. But Dr. Juliet Jeruta, regional director of the Department of…

Conflict in illegal drug trade eyed in Korean’s slay; Garma insists Cebu City remains safe

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Morexette B. Erram, Nestle L. Semilla 08/27/2018

Police are probing an alleged conflict in the illegal drug trade as the motive behind the killing of Korean National Lee Young Ho inside a motel in Cebu City. Senior Supt. Royina Garma said they found text…

China, US set to resume trade talks

AFP 08/16/2018

China will send a senior negotiator to the United States in late August to resume trade talks, its commerce ministry said Thursday, the first public meeting on the dispute in weeks as the trade conflict intensifies. Beijing…

The galleon trade killed Cebu as an entrepot

Fernando Fajardo 07/26/2018

Cebu is strategically located at the center of the Visayas Islands, which as a group is also the center of the Philippines. Thus, even before the coming of the Spaniards, Cebu had been known already to have…

World Bank: PH climbs to 60th place in trade logistics rankings

Inquirer.net 07/25/2018

THE Philippines’ competitiveness in trade logistics improved in the past two years, such that its rank jumped to 60th place among 168 countries in this year’s edition of a biennial World Bank report. The report titled “Connecting…

Europe, Japan sign massive free trade deal

AFP 07/17/2018

The EU and Japan signed a sweeping free trade deal Tuesday that officials called a “clear message” against protectionism, as Washington imposes controversial tariffs and threatens a trade war. The deal signed in Tokyo by the EU’s…

China’s trade surplus with US swells in June

AFP 07/13/2018

CHINA’s surplus with the United States hit a record last month, data showed Friday, adding to brewing tensions between the economic superpowers as they stand on the brink of an all-out trade war that Beijing warned would…

Osmeña, Caindec trade barbs over city’s unregistered vehicles

Futch Anthony Inso, Morexette Marie B. Erram, USJ-R Intern Delta Derycka Letigio 07/12/2018

  The Cebu City Government’s Department of General Services (DGS) has requested the Land Transportation Office in Central Visayas (LTO–7) to produce a list of city-owned vehicles not registered with LTO or those whose registration have already…

US, China economic trade war starts

AFP 07/06/2018

The US and China on Friday launched tit-for-tat tariffs on each other’s imports, the opening shots in what Beijing called “the largest trade war in economic history” between the world’s top two economies. At the stroke of…

Trade chief: Wage hike must be kept ‘minimal’

Inquirer.net 06/20/2018

Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez on Wednesday said wage hikes should be “minimal” to avoid the rise in production costs and consumer prices. “If you ask me, there can be a minimal adjustment but that should not be…

Tumulak: Give cops more time to stamp out drugs trade

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 06/16/2018

GIVE law enforcers more time. Saying that eradicating illegal drugs is not an easy task to do, Cebu City Councilor Dave Tumulak appealed to the public to forego any conclusions and to instead trust the system being…

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