Netizens complained of slow internet speed in the country, a criticism corroborated by a report released by an internet broadband testing company which ranked Philippines as the 158th in 190 countries that have the slowest internet speed in Southeast Asian Region.
Speaking at the Club 888 business forum, marketing directors from various malls said the first Fun Sale hosted by the DOT increased food traffic and tourist shoppers.
Long queues and complaints filled the last day of the filing of personal income tax at the Bureua of Internal Revenue Davao region office. The BIR projected some 23,000 people from the city to file their taxes, and indeed the last hour was a scramble for people to beat the deadline.
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has asked private landowners in the resort island of Samal to yield the road right of way to a planned massive construction of road network, to buoy up the island’s importance as the “key site” in regional tourism.
The Department of Education plans to provide a subsidy called the expanded voucher program to finance students enrolling at senior high school (Grades 11 and 12).