PHL, World Bank sign US$500-M loan accord to fight COVID-19

The Philippines and the World Bank signed over the weekend a US$500-million loan agreement that would enable the Duterte administration to augment the government’s urgent financing requirements arising from the…

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Gov’t raising additional funds for economic bounce-back plan

President Duterte's economic team is now working hard to raise additional funds by using the government’s arsenal of fiscal and monetary tools and tapping concessional financing options from multilateral institutions…

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PHL ‘financially able’ to meet COVID challenges—Dominguez

Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has said the Philippines is “financially able” to meet the unexpected challenges to the Filipino people and the domestic economy of the 2019 coronavirus disease…

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Expedited release of containers rules issued

Key government agencies have issued a Joint Administrative Order (JAO) providing for the expedited release of refrigerated containers and dry vans parked at shipping ports and terminals during the period…

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BIR strike team shuts down illegal cigarette maker in Clark ecozone

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has padlocked earlier this year a warehouse illegally manufacturing tobacco products inside the Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga where 1.65 million packs of…

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