artificial sweetener tax sugar groups want in the ProGRESS bill meets a projected 10.3 percent cane output drop. Supply decides who pays ₱6 or ₱40.

Marcos’s drought order leans on importers for the rice buffer stock and on households for water, with no agency or budget named for the filters.

Travel tax abolition moves TIEZA, CHED and NCCA funding from statute to the annual budget, and DBM becomes the gatekeeper for tourism projects.

NTC telco fines of ₱100,000 a day are small money. Repeating retests and a dispute over who sets the test are what Smart, Globe, and DITO now face.

social media ban bill makes platforms verify user ages twice a year to a DICT standard not yet written. The cost lands on users and sellers.

SEC debt collection rules in draft would license collection agencies and keep lenders liable for them, shifting pricing power to accredited vendors.

The NPC’s draft circular on data subject rights sets response clocks, but the heavier shift is who must prove a lawful basis. Read the mechanics.

Artificial sweetener regulation is shifting from import fees to the sweetened beverage tax, where cane sugar, sweeteners and Congress now collide.

PNP wants National ID SIM registration to replace multiple accepted IDs, but the shift also concentrates telecom, banking and platform access on one database.

DOE’s Panay power supply plan sets 2028 to 2030 capacity dates, but leaves Western Visayas businesses carrying two more years of grid risk in the meantime.