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LTFRB opened 3,000 new taxi and TNVS slots across Metro Cebu. The Cebu taxi franchise expansion lands hardest on boundary drivers, not the owners.

The PFDA fish port approval covers ₱1.6 billion across Navotas and Palawan. The infrastructure is real. So is the consolidation it triggers.

PSA data confirms cybersecurity awareness reaches only one in three Filipinos while 24.28 million were hit by cybercrime in 2024. Platforms carry the liability.

Naga City’s open-source People’s Budget Portal removes every technical excuse for LGU budget transparency failures. The political will problem stays untouched.

The Meralco rate hike for June 2026 erased May’s rollback in one billing cycle as the generation charge climbed past the offsets holding it down.

The fake CAPTCHA scam installs malware through the user, slipping past the bank-side defenses the June 2026 anti-scam rules are built to harden.

The underemployment rate hit 15.2% in April, the highest since July 2023, even as joblessness fell. The number everyone celebrated hides the real strain.

The rice stockpile grew in May, but the state controls less of it as commercial traders drove the buildup and the NFA buffer fell 14 percent.

The COMELEC election budget for 2028 trims ₱6 billion by cutting blockchain and a ballot verification feature the poll body now labels nonessential.

LandBank government payment fees are now zero on QRPh transactions through December 31. Here is what is covered, what is not, and what it means for your costs.

The Leviste solar project never delivered a watt. The DOE now wants ₱1.185 billion, and the auction program’s real weakness is showing.

Casino Filipino privatization swaps PAGCOR’s recurring gaming income for a one-off sale and changes who the regulator now answers to.

Marcoleta’s Press attack, calling them ‘bayaran’ recanted by his own block and recast as PR remark. The backlash exposed a charge with no proof.

A Senate boycott has frozen bills, budgets, and confirmations. The cause is not principle. It is a leader protecting a chair he cannot defend on the floor.

PSMA’s May surplus disclosure exposes a contradiction inside the sugar bloc’s case against refined sugar imports and weakens the policy stack built around it.

Marcoleta and Estrada drew judicial action in two separate Ombudsman cases within 48 hours of their election as Blue Ribbon vice chairs.