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Duterte inaugurates NLEX segment expected to cut travel time from Valenzuela to Caloocan to 5 minutes

Duterte leads ceremony for construction of NLEX-SLEX connector road, too (Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Feb. 28, led the inauguration of the NLEX Harbor Link Segment 10 that is expected to alleviate vehicular congestion in Metro Manila, and the groundbreaking ceremony for the constructoin of the NLEX-SLEX connector road. The 5.65-kilometer elevated expressway that traverses the cities of Valenzuela, Malabon, and Caloocan is expected to cut short travel time from Valenzuela to C3 from one hour […]

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Palace slams De Lima over comments vs Build, Build, Build program

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Saturday, Feb. 23, slammed Senator Leila de Lima over her comments against the Build, Build, Build program, saying it would rather “ignore” her as “her senses apparently have flown to the cuckoo’s nest.” “A detained senator from the opposition has described the Build, Build, Build program, ‘grossly inefficient,’ among other nonsensical descriptives and false narratives…We will just watch her in amusement as she cantankerously pontificates like a headless chicken running berserk,” […]

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DOTr: PHL’s first subway to be partially operational in 2022

Full operations eyed in 2025 (Eagle News) — The country’s first subway is expected to be  partially operational in 2022. The Department of Transportation made the announcement in a Facebook post on Thursday, Feb. 21. The DOTr said during that time, the first three stations of the Metro Manila Subway–Quirino Highway, Tandang Sora and North Ave.—will be operational. The remaining 13 stations of the subway system that is expected to link Mindanao Ave. in Quezon City […]

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Finance chief thanks Japan for “generous support” for PHL gov’t’s “Build, Build, Build” program

  (Eagle News) — Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III thanked the government of Japan for its “generous support” in helping jumpstart the Philippines’ ambitious “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program, citing the nine loan agreements signed since the start of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dominguez said the loan agreements with a combined amount of JPY398.82 billion (about $3.63 billion or P189.92 billion) were formalized between the Philippines and Japan since President Duterte assumed the […]

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Nat’l gov’t’s infra spending from January to May reaches P281-B; DOF confident on expanding economy

  (Eagle News) – The national government has spent P281 billion on infrastructure in the first five months of 2018 which was 42 percent higher than the same period last year. This was announced by the Department of Finance which has expressed confidence in the economy expanding by 7 percent or better over the medium term. Finance Secretary Carlos Domimguez III said that with the P281 billion invested on infrastructure from January to May this […]

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OPEC institution offers funding for “Build, Build, Build” projects

A financial institution established by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to help reduce poverty in developing countries has offered its assistance to the Philippines in funding the Duterte administration’s “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure modernization program. During a recent meeting with Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III, key officials of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), reiterated the institution’s “keen interest to assist and collaborate” with the Philippine government in carrying out its priority […]

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Pernia: Proposed Bulacan International Airport, 7 other proposals get NEDA Board approval

(Eagle News) –The National Economic Development Authority Board  has approved eight infrastructure proposals, including one for the construction, maintenance and operation of a Bulacan International Airport, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia said. In a statement, Pernia said the board, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, made the approval of the Subic-Clark Railway Project (P50.03 billion); Clark International Airport Expansion Project Operations and Maintenance PPP (P5.61 billion); Ambal-Simuay River and Rio Grande de Mindanao River Flood Control Projects […]

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Diokno says Duterte admin plan to increase public school teachers’ pay “not a priority” so far

Public school teachers will experience another hike in pay under EO 21, he assures (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to increase public school teachers’ pay may have to wait. Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno on Wednesday said that increasing their salaries was “not a priority” as of this time, given the focus on the “Build, Build, Build” program of the government and “social protection.” “I think we have to study that very carefully,” Diokno […]

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MMDA: Problema sa trapiko patuloy na mararanasan sa 2018; konstruksyon ng maraming proyekto sa ilalim ng “Build, Build, Build” nakatakdang magsimula

(Eagle News) – Umapela sa publiko ang Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) kaugnay sa patuloy na mararanasang problema sa trapiko sa taong 2018. Ayon kay MMDA General Manager Tim Orbos, ito ay bunsod ng maraming nakalinyang mga proyektong pang imprastraktura sa ilalim ng programang “Build, Build, Build” na magsisimula na sa susunod na taon. Ilan sa mga proyektong bahagi nito ay ang pagpapatuloy ng Metro Rail Transit-Light Rail Transit Common Station, LRT Line 2 extension […]

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Senate approves proposed P3.7-trillion national budget for 2018 on third reading

(Eagle News) — The Senate on Wednesday approved on third and final reading the  proposed P3.767-trillion national budget for 2018. All 16 senators present voted for the budget bill months after the House of Representatives passed its own in September. A bulk of the budget, once passed into law, is expected to go to the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build program. Also expected to get a big share of the budget, if passed into law, […]

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Mexican president condemns Trump’s wall plan

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday condemned Donald Trump’s move to build a border wall but fell short of deciding whether to cancel an upcoming meeting with the US president. Opposition leaders called on Pena Nieto to cancel Tuesday’s trip after Trump issued a widely expected order to begin work on the massive wall. Without mentioning the trip, Pena Nieto said he would wait for a report from a […]

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Trump orders work to start on Mexico border wall

by Andrew BEATTY Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday ordered work to begin on planning and building a wall on the Mexican border, sounding a hardline tone on immigration as he moved to fulfill a key campaign pledge. The US leader instructed officials to begin to “plan, design and construct a physical wall along the southern border” and — perhaps more problematically — see how it could be […]

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