A Facebook post that claims that the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP) is now dead on its track is false. Philippine Construction Boom posted Thursday a social media card that reads: “Bye! Mindanao Railway Project,” with a sad emoji accompanying it.
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – More than halfway into President Rodrigo Duterte’s six-year term, the dream train that he promised to build in Mindanao, potentially using Official Development Assistance (ODA) from China for the first phase, has yet
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews/ 26 July) – Junking the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) law will deny the government of resources for projects and services, Education Secretary Leonor Briones said on Wednesday. “Again my perspective is that both as
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 22 May) – Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez said the inflation rate was unfairly blamed on the implementation of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Law and maintained that the spike can be partly
NAAWAN, Misamis Oriental (MindaNews / 20 January) — Taxes are the lifeblood of government. Taxes have to be reformed or adjusted now and then to respond to the needs of the times. President Duterte should not be condemned in breaking
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 13 January) — Distribution utility South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (Socoteco II) reminded power consumers here and in the neighboring areas to be more responsible in using electricity as it warned of “probable increase in
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 12 January) – The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) will not significantly impact on the prices of basic commodities, Trade secretary Ramon M. Lopez said. Lopez led the price monitoring at supermarkets of Victoria
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 11 January) – The Makabayan Bloc in the House of Representatives has filed a petition before the Supreme Court on Thursday to declare the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) unconstitutional. In a statement, ACT
MALAYBALAY CITY (MindaNews / 9 January) – The coal tax included in the administration’s tax reform program will drive electricity rates up, the Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (Agham) said in a statement Monday. Agham secretary-general Finesa
(Speech of Senate President Aquilino Pimentel III at the opening of the Second Regular Session of the 17th Congress on 24 July 2017) Good morning my dear colleagues and other members of the Senate family. Today we open the Second
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 15 March) – In a bid to ease the city’s traffic problems, officials are pushing for the temporary deployment here of the Department of Science and Technology’s (DOST) innovative Hybrid Electric Road Train (HERT), a
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 27 Nov) – Representatives from the Korean Engineering Company (KEC) will be reporting by March next year on its findings for a possible railway line in the city, according to the city council committee chair on
