Government suspends Cavitex toll hike

Subsidiaries of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) are set to  file arbitration cases against the government over its inaction on pending petitions for toll-fee adjustments, in gross violation of their separate concession deals with Malacañang. Mall near Cavitex In a recent forum, MPIC President-CEO Jose Ma. Lim said the conglomerate might initiate arbitration...

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Thousands Still Homeless after Yolanda

TWO years after super-typhoon Yolanda devastated Eastern and Central Visayas in 2013, only 16,544 housing units out of 205,128 targeted for the typhoon victims – very much less than one-tenth – have been completed, the House of Representatives was informed at a hearing the other day. The principal reason, the Pag ibig Loans said, was that less than half of the P61.2...

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Cybercrime Law brings Precedent-Setting Case

      THE country’s newly minted Cybercrime Law may soon be tested. Word on the street is that a mass housing developer is contemplating filing online libel charges against those behind what it calls “vicious Internet and social media attacks” on its projects. While the developer—Pro-Friends—has yet to file what could be an important precedent-setting...

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