Metro Pacific Investments tops CALAX bid

MANUEL V. Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) is set to bag the 45.5-kilometer Cavite-Laguna Expressway (Calax) deal after submitting a surprise aggressive offer in a rebidding exercise for the public-private partnership (PPP) project that edged out rival San Miguel Corp. Bidding results at the Department of Public Works and Highways showed...

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Is your house in quake zone?

Now you can check for yourself whether your house, or planned house, lies along or near an active earthquake fault line in Metro Manila. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) has made public updated and detailed maps that trace the 100-kilometer West Valley Fault traversing parts of Metro Manila and the adjoining provinces of Bulacan, Laguna,...

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Possible Earthquake threathens 57 Villages

FAULT-RIDDEN. Active faults (red lines) cut through a part of Pasig City occupied by subdivisions Valle Verde 5 and 6. Image from Phivolcs' Valley Fault System Atlas MANILA, Philippines – Maps recently released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) allow people to see the location of the West Valley Fault and East Valley Fault in Greater Metro...

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