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PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto has joined President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. in a site visit at the Public-Private Partnership (PPP)-led Upper Wawa Dam project—the biggest water source project in the country in over 50 years that will ensure sustainable access to

PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto convened the inaugural committee meeting to operationalize the Pre-border Technical Verification and Cross-border Electronic Invoicing Systems under Administrative Order (AO) No. 23, series of 2024 on June 11, 2024 at the Department

PRESS RELEASE Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto has lauded the issuance of Administrative Order (AO) No. 23 which will significantly enhance the monitoring of imported commodities entering the Philippines through electronic means, and has vowed to protect the country’s borders

It is not only reclaiming land in the West Philippine Sea; by its actions, it is also renaming it as the Waste Philippine Sea. By turning reefs into toilets, two man-made things are now visible from space: the Great Wall of China on land, and the Great Wastes of China at sea.

The trees will not be chainsawed by illegal loggers, but the lot on which they stand will be used for a facility that will protect millions of lives. On a per square meter basis, the property will benefit thousands of people. It is a social project that packs enough “goodwill

Trade, agriculture, transportation and police officials have been urged to jointly or on their own conduct a “field audit” on transportation issues that delay the movement of food products and make them more expensive.  Among the “road obstructions” that must be removed,

If the DTI-attached Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) is the designated COVID-19 vaccine buyer, then it should waive its customary 1 percent to 4 percent service fee. This is not the time to reap a pandemic windfall. When private corporations are waiving fees

Government’s tree-planting drive next year should join other grassroots jobs initiatives, as mobilizing “plantreetos and plantreetas” could shield its proposed P5.1 billion budget from wastage and delays. This is just one of the proposals of Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph

Senator Ralph Recto said that based on National Greening Program’s P38.9 billion total budget from 2011 to 2019, a total of 1.807 billion trees in 2.141 million hectares of land should have been planted until December 2019. “After counting the number of trees planted, it is time