Tag: second round

Angara to gov’t: Ensure social mitigating measures in place before implementing second round of oil excise tax hike

(Eagle News)–Senator Sonny Angara urged the country’s economic managers to ensure inflation will go down and that Filipinos will be able to get their support from the government before deciding to push through with the second round of excise tax hike on petroleum products. “We recognize that international prices of petroleum have been going down and will continue to decline in 2019. This led to seven consecutive weeks of price rollbacks, with pump prices of […]

Tennis: Murray into Wimbledon second round

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Defending champion Andy Murray reached the Wimbledon second round on Monday with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Kazakh Alexander Bublik. Murray next faces Dustin Brown, the man who knocked out Rafael Nadal two years ago. German world number 97 Brown came back from a set and a break down to beat Portugal’s Joao Sousa 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-4.