The government has ordered an online transport firm to cease from offering the use of bikes or motorcycles as a mode of public transportation until the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) have promulgated guidelines to authorize the service.
In a survey done by DOST, 4,850 or 88.42 percent of the 5,485 S&T workforce will not feel the effects of the salary increase as it threatens to repeal the Republic Act 8439 or the Magna Carta (MC) benefits for S&T workers.
Under the measure, all public and private elementary and secondary schools will be required to have a database of their students medical and dental records upon the students entrance in schools.
The five new agencies -- the DepEd, the Department of Social Work and Development, the Department of Finance -- Bureau of Local Government Finance (DOF-BLGF), the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), and the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center -- are the second batch of government agencies to sign agreements with Kalibrr and Bagumbayani.
The results of the audit will become the basis for NTC to come up with new guidelines on acceptable speed and cost that telcos are duty-bound to follow, according to the lawmaker.
Lazada said it broke its online sales records during the kick-off of the month-long sale event last November 11, generating 2.4 million visits and over 120,000 items purchased on its website and mobile app in a single day.
The national government, through the Philippine Government Electronic Procurement System (PhilGEPS), said it saved at least P1.05 billion in newspaper advertisement expenses last year.