Unexpectedly, Wendel Avisado has left his post as spending secretary because of “clinical reasons“. In view of this, PRRD has acknowledged Sec. Wendel Avisado’s acquiescence because of clinical reasons where Malacañang representative Harry Roque said in a proclamation shipped off correspondents on  alluding to President Rodrigo Duterte by his official initials. The budget Undersecretary Tina Marie Canda will go about …

SINGAPORE – An total of $2,000 in Covid-19 assistance was earned by each member of a Singaporean household, about 70% of which came from the broad-based Care and Support Plan, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) said on Thursday (Feb 11). On average, each household earned around $4,000 from broad-based programs, much of which came in the form of cash transfers, …

The construction of an electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant will begin in the first half of 2021 after the consortium of Indonesian state enterprises and LG Energy Solution Ltd of South Korea signed an agreement worth US$9.8 billion which is also Rp142 trillion. Kami ingin menyampaikan berita gembira bahwa Indonesia akan segera memiliki pusat industri sel baterai kendaraan listrik terintegrasi …

Previously, around a dozen clauses of the 2021 national budget have been vetoed by President Rodrigo Duterte, including one which allows the executive branch to send to Congress quarterly reports on the utilization of intelligence funds. Duterte shared in a 16-page veto letter on next year’s spending, intelligence funds protect national security related services, initiatives and operations that are considered …

IPOH: All Perak assemblymen will receive an equal annual allocation of RM200,000 each from next year, either on the government bench or the opposition, following a decree by the state ruler. Menteri Besar Saarani Mohamad, presenting the state budget at the state assembly today, said it would involve a total allocation of RM11.8 million per year. He said this was …

In light of the pandemic, it was issued this year that medical frontliners will receive a hazard pay to give back the sacrifices and risk they went through this year but the arrangements for this were not that simple. Looking back, One of the Senate leader called on the Duterte administration to address the question of unreleased hazard pay and …

The lawmakers sealed their agreement of the second to the last budget of the Duterte administration next year, plotting it on course for a timely passage that is crucial to ensure that new pandemic recovery initiatives are immediately supported. House and Senate budget leaders in a briefing that the P4.5-trillion proposed spending plan was accepted by their respective contingents, up …

The coronavirus pandemic is one of the unprecedented times that the world has faced and it has delivered worst economic shock in decades by pushing governments to enforce lockdowns or laws of social distancing that have caused extensive economic harm. This year, It there were deep recessions caused by the pandemic that are expected to leave permanent scars over a …

Baguio City is the first in northern Luzon to receive a grant from the national government for its socialized housing scheme dubbed as the permaculture community. In view of this, The City Planning and Growth Coordinator Dona Tabangin shared that the P255-million grant for the city’s socialized housing initiative was received from the Department of Human Settlements and Economic Development …

METRO MANILA – Malacañang expressed willingness to support a senator’s proposal to allocate part of the PHP16.4-billion anti-insurgency fund for the relief and rehabilitation efforts for those people affected by the Super Typhoon Rolly. According to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, He did not see any inconsistency with the recommendation to realign part of the NTF-ELCAC budget for the typhoon-hit areas. …