Two years ago Google together with other five associates started the project “Unity”, a trans-Pacific undersea fiber-optic cable linking the United States and Japan. The investment costs were $300 million and became necessary as the...
While the Philippines are getting out of the 3rd world zone and begin to be an emerging country, their biggest telecom company, SMART, behaves like a colonial 3rd world company. WARNING: SMART promises services they do...
Midsea-Express cancels all flights from June 1 to June 4. Until April this year, Midsea-Express announced their maintenance schedules 3 to 4 weeks before the service interruption. So one could either book an earlier...
The Philippines House of Representatives has approved, at a third and final reading, a bill which seeks to “rationalize” the taxes on international air carriers, to boost tourism and enable the country to honour...
Illegal logging and legal over-logging are one of the big problems in the Philippines. Before a tree is cut, it has three extremely important tasks: transform CO2 into wood and oxygene, secure the slope...
Most of the people living in the Visayas remember Typhoon Frank / Fengshen in June 2008. The central Visayas, especially Panay, got heavily touched by this Category 3 typhoon. See the track below and...
The tensions between China and the Philippines get uncomfortable. China last week issued a travel safety alert for the Philippines. 1. China Southern Airlines will cut its normal two flights daily between Guangzhou and Manila...
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Department of Tourism (DOT), and the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) have come up with guidelines on budget airlines fare promos amid mounting complaints from passengers against poor...
At the start of the week, oil companies rolled back diesel prices by PHP 1.50 per liter and gasoline prices by PHP 1.65 per liter. Following this biggest rollback in fuel prices by oil companies since the...
China is set to enforce a fishing ban in large swaths of the South China Sea for two-and-a-half months starting this Wednesday, the official Xinhua News Agency reported yesterday. A Chinese fisheries official said the...
The Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has circulated the second draft of Economic Regulation No. 7 concerning “Boarding Priority and Compensation for Denied Boarding, Delayed and Cancelled Flights” for comments. Airlines should refund...
Over years I had railed against this silly terminal fee in the Philippines. Anywhere in the world all the airport taxes are included in the flight-ticket – but not in the Philippines. You had...
See you in Panglao – that’s OK. But “C U” in Panglao is one of the best restaurants in the Philippines and it is in Alona on Panglao island. There are some good restaurants...
No, no, the British are not copying the Pinoy slogan but the DOT campaign “It’s more fun in the Philippines” has reached the City of London. The tourism department’s new slogan, “It’s more fun...
For now over a month we experience at least two daily brown-outs in Camiguin. The rotating brown-outs are 1 hour around noon and 1 hour around 6 o’clock in the evening. With these brown-outs...
Transportation Secretary Mar Roxas was right when he blamed over the weekend the tight scheduling of airlines as cause for delays in passenger flights currently experienced by NAIA passengers. Roxas claimed that the normal...
About two years ago I subscribed to SMARTbro post paid for 995 pesos per month. Until October last year I got my monthly bill by a guy who brought it to my house and...
TheProvincial Council of Zamboanga del Sur has issued a resolution expressing its willingness to host a nuclear power plant in the area because it will lower the price of electricity there while assuring its...
This is the second week that northern Mindanao suffers planned brown-outs. It seems, that they will last until end of April. Anywhere in the world people are calling electrical power-cuts a “black-out”. But the...
The diplomatic climate between China and the Philippines is again a rather high pressure area. Two views: The Philippines say the PCG vessel, carrying Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) personnel, was deployed...
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