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THE Philippine National Railways (PNR) is scheduled to temporarily halt its Governor Pascual-Tutuban and Tutuban-Alabang operations starting March 28 to accelerate the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) project in Metro Manila.
THE Department of Transportation (DoTr) said on Friday that the securing of the Metro Manila Subway Project's right-of-way (ROWA) was now 55 percent complete.
THE government has already achieved its goal of modernizing public utility vehicles (PUVs), the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said on Friday.
After the Holy Week, the daily commute for around 30,000 people will become more difficult. Beginning March 28, the Philippine National Railways will stop its Metro Manila operations to give way to the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway. The project is expected to last five years, during which regular PNR commuters will have to rely on buses to be fielded along the train routes.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Railways (PNR) will stop its operations in Metro Manila starting March 28 to clear the alignment where the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) will be built.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Railways (PNR) will halt its Governor Pascual-Tutuban and Tutuban-Alabang operations starting March 28, 2024 to "accelerate" the construction of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) project in Metro Manila.
PLDT [TEL 1278.00 ?0.9%] [link] said yesterday that it has created “a new digital entity” called Digico that will act as a “platform for a serious [MVP Group]-wide digitalization effort”. Digico will be co-owned by TEL, Smart, Meralco [MER 365.20 ?0.5%], and Metro Pacific Investments (MPI), which the disclosure referred to as the “MVP Group of Companies”. According to TEL, Digico is expected to facilitate “payments and rewards systems” for users and “be ‘the app’ for all Filipinos”. Referring to the Filipino people, Manny Pangilinan (MVP) said that “your growth is a priority for us”, and followed this up by saying that Digico “will serve as a catalyst that could unlock new revenue streams and drive incremental value.”MB BOTTOM-LINE: Lots of big companies have shared services teams like this, especially for IT assets and services. Why make each company spend the time and money to roll its own payment processing system when those efforts could be concentrated on delivering one system capable of handling the entire group’s needs? Makes sense on paper. Building this digital infrastructure also makes it easier for the MVP Group of Companies (is it just me, or is it kind of wild to refer to these companies in this way?) to grow new subsidiaries or pursue new customer-facing opportunities knowing that they’ve already got this part of the challenge solved: just plug the new company into the existing digital platform and away you go.
MANILA, Philippines — A large majority of Filipinos remain satisfied with the performance of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the fourth quarter of 2023, a survey conducted by the OCTA Research group showed.