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Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Take a peek at our life and style section for some handy gift ideas: for your boss, for the men in your life, for the beauty addict. We also prepared gift ideas for the budget conscious.
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As the festivities pick up, the world continues to grapple with the escalating threats to peace. The United States and Canada announced Tuesday, December 19, that they will host a summit of foreign ministers in Vancouver, Canada on January 16, 2018, to seek progress on the North Korean nuclear crisis.
On the bright side, social networking platform Twitter announced new rules against hate speech. Hopefully this would combat abusive behavior and hateful conduct online.
Back home, President Duterte signed his administration’s first tax reform package which reduces personal income tax but imposes higher tax on fuel, cars, tobacco, and sugary beverages. The tax reform package is supposed to fund infrastructure and development projects of the government.
Through the celebrations, our disaster preparedness managers remind us to stay alert and keep monitoring the weather for any disturbances. The Philippines, after all, is no stranger to Christmas storms.
Move.PH, our civic engagement team has prepared a list of hotlines you can access in case of emergencies. Bookmark the page and stay safe while celebrating this Christmas!
The Train law reduces personal income tax but imposes higher tax on fuel, cars, tobacco, and sugary beverages to fund infrastructure and development projects of the government
(UPDATED) ‘We believe a diplomatic solution to the crisis is essential and possible,’ says Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland
(UPDATED) The 2018 national budget indicates the priorities of the Duterte administration, with infrastructure, education, and the interior affairs sectors gaining the most
The updated Twitter policies do not apply to military or government entities
CNIL says it considers the transfer of some data for security purposes to be legal, but the sharing of non-essential information to improve the function of the app was not as users were not given the possibility to opt out
Information obtained from the front locomotive’s data recorder, which has been more difficult to access, would potentially lend more insight into the train’s exact speed
(UPDATED) Vice Admiral Ronald Mercado, who is supposed to serve as Philippine Navy chief until March 2018, has been assigned to the office of the AFP chief
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