Sunday, March 8, 2026

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New Customs Chief

PRESIDENT FERDINAND R. MARCOS Jr. on Monday (June 30) swore in Ariel Nepomuceno as the new Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs (BOC).Nepomuceno, who...

Global Trade Link Eyes Visayas Growth

INCLUSIVE GROWTH ACROSS the Visayas is not just on the drawing board, it is for certain. Marking a pivotal stride in advancing regional economic cooperation,...

Rice Pests Threat Damaging Farms 

AMID AN ANTICIPATED good rice harvest, the threat that pests like rodents, rice stem borers, brown planthoppers and rice bugs could infest standing crops...

Legitimizing Businesses In Forest Lands

THE NEW REFORESTATION program of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources has a lot of gray areas and potential loopholes that greedy businessmen...

Projecting Economic Growth Is, At Best, A Guess

EVEN AS A NON-ECONOMIST, I don’t subscribe to setting economic growth targets since our country is part of a global economy, thus any virus...

Marijuana Plantation

SOME 30,000 BUSHES of fully-grown marijuana were discovered by operatives of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the remote barangay of Loccong in Tinglayan,...

The Elusive Onion Smuggling Firm

WITH JUST A name in its hands, the government might find it severely difficult, if at all, to run after a company that brought...

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