We all know welding fumes are dangerous, but how much risk is there really in welding? And how is this likely to affect your business? In October 2017, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) concluded that exposure to welding fumes causes’ lung cancer and possibly kidney cancer in humans. The research studies this… Read More Welding Fumes – Health Risks Update
Why are there two different housing loan programs? Pag-IBIG is offering two housing loan programs to cater to the actual need of the borrower based on his/her capacity to pay. One of these two programs is the Affordable Housing Program (AHP), which is designed for minimum wage earners or whose gross monthly income does not… Read More Housing Loan Program of Pag-Ibig
The Social Security System (SSS) has declared its support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to approve an across-the-board pension increase of P2,000 that would benefit the agency’s over two million pensioners, with the initial P1,000 increase effective this month and another P1,000 in 2022 or earlier. However, the Chief Executive instructed the SSS to incorporate… Read More Pres. Duterte approves SSS P2k pension hike, backs continuing reforms for fund sustainability
BDO to charge P10-fee on fund transfers to unenrolled accounts The service charge will be effective March 15, 2017 MANILA, Philippines – BDO Unibank Incorporated will impose a P10-service charge on online and mobile banking fund transfers to unenrolled BDO accounts beginning mid-March. BDO said in an advisory on Tuesday, January 3, that this will be effective March… Read More BDO to charge P10 on fund transfers to unenrolled BDO accounts
As of 03 Dec. 2014 The following Toll Rates, inclusive of VAT, was approved by the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) for implementation based on the initial toll rates per kilometer as prescribed in the Toll Concession Agreement. No increase has been factored into the toll rates due to increase in project cost. CLASS–1 ENTRY/EXIT TARLAC… Read More TARLAC-PANGASINAN-LA UNION EXPRESSWAY PROJECT (TPLEX)
She finished an architecture course but she is better known for her agricultural pursuits. We are talking of Rolita “Baby” V. Spowart, an old time friend who is currently into orchids and ornamental plants, Milky mushroom, and commercial rice farming. A few nights back (November 2), she called us up from her rice farm in… Read More Conversations with architect turned farmer
Big casualties avoided through massive evacuation Typhoon “Ruby” (international codename: “Hagupit”) knocked out power in entire coastal provinces, mowed down trees and power lines, and sent more than 650,000 people into shelters, but Filipinos emerged wiser from last year’s devastation by super-typhoon “Yolanda” (“Haiyan”) and reckoned with the storm as it weakened yesterday, leaving no… Read More Reckoning with ‘Ruby’
MANILA, Philippines—Powerful Typhoon Ruby (Hagupit) started lashing the eastern Philippines late Saturday, knocking down trees and causing power outages hours before it was expected to make landfall in a region still haunted by a monster storm last year, with 600,000 people fleeing to safety. Although it was unlikely to reach the unprecedented strength of Typhoon… Read More Ruby’s effects felt; 600,000 flee
A 61-year-old civil engineer who used to construct gasoline stations for major petroleum companies gave up his construction business in 2002 to take-it-easy, so to speak, after making more than enough to maintain a comfortable life. The fellow is Napoleon ‘Pol’ Puente who would rather want to be called ‘Farmer Pol’ today. He is now… Read More Retired engineer makes superior Spirulina products
THE Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Center is now preparing pre-investment studies for 10 new projects. Only three of the 10 projects currently have cost estimates: the P8.1-billion ($180-million) San Fernando Airport; the P166.63-billion ($3.7-billion) North-South Railway Project (NSRP); and the P135-billion ($3-billion) Mass Transit System Loop. The San Fernando Airport will serve as a regional airport that… Read More 10 new PPP projects being readied for public auction
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