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By Chiara Feliz C. Gutierrez Over the years, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has released numerous issuances for the guidance of taxpayers, tax consultants, and tax examiners alike. Typically, these issuances are well received as they provide clarity on tax issues or help ease tax
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THE PUBLIC Works department plans to build six dams along the Cagayan river in northern Philippines to improve flood control, officials on Wednesday told a Senate committee investigating heavy floods that submerged many parts of Luzon island after it was hit by a typhoon this
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCASTHE TOLL Regulatory Board (TRB) on Wednesday said toll operators are ready to enforce cashless transactions starting Dec. 1 amid a coronavirus pandemic. Toll plazas with almost 800 toll lanes are ready, TRB Executive Director Abraham P. Sales told an online news briefing. He
Let’s face it, Black Friday 2020 is set to be like no other and with the majority of the planet having no choice but to head online to hunt for bargains, those in-store fights we’ve seen in previous years are destined to take the form
By Marvin Tort JONAS-JACOBSSON-WXQ5LW7-3JO-UNSPLASHSeven years ago, Typhoon Yolanda wreaked havoc particularly in Eastern Visayas. Typhoon Rolly just recently did the same to Eastern Luzon. Soon after Yolanda hit in November 2013, I wrote about how I believed that wide-scale bamboo production could help typhoon-damaged Samar and
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SINGAPORE -- Having once had the highest coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rate in Southeast Asia, Singapore has all but eradicated the virus after reporting 14 days without any new local cases on Tuesday, and saying it had snuffed out the last cluster of infection at