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Manila, Philippines—To drum up business and create public awareness about the benefits of solar panels, Solar Philippines is looking at completing solar panel installations on the roofs of more than 20 shopping malls by summer next year. Last year, Solar Philippines completed laying solar panels at SM North EDSA, Robinsons

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Manila, Philippines–Despite the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report that 97,000 companies failed to remit premium contributions, totaling to P8.17 billion, to the Social Security System (SSS) in 2014*, SSS has generated an income of P274.5 million in the first half of 2015 from the sale and rent of SSS-owned properties such

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Manila, Philippines—On last Saturday’s episode of the phenomenally popular “Kalye Serye,” a soap opera-musical parody, on noontime variety show “Eat Bulaga,” the show’s bida kontrabida Lola Nidora, played by Wally Bayola in drag, gave permission to Alden, male lead character played by Alden Richards, to finally court Yaya Dub, female

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Manila, Philippines—The number of crimes in Metro Manila dropped by 67 percent, Chief Superintendent Joel Pagdilao, director of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), told the Philippine Star. According to Pagdilao, the dramatic decrease in the crime rate was mainly attributed to the “Oplan Lambat-Sibat” campaign, spearheaded by presidential

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Manila, Philippines—Avida Towers Centera on Reliance Street in Mandaluyong City presents “Real Living Space,” a home shopping and interior design showcase, co-organized with home design magazine “Real Living” at Avida Towers Centera pavilion this weekend, September 26-27, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. At the exhibition, “Real Living” magazine has

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Biñan, Laguna—Global-Estate Resorts Inc. (GERI), an affiliated company of property developer Megaworld, has just announced in a statement that three of its 12-story residential towers at Holland Park, the first condominium cluster in the 561-hecatare mixed-use township Southwoods City, were sold out within nine months after launching the project in

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Manila, Philippines—In a 46-page memorandum dated Monday, September 21, Solicitor General (SolGen) Florin Hilbay explains not only why the permits of the construction of the controversial 46-story condominium project Torre de Manila obtained by its developer, DM Consunji Inc. (DMCI), are void, but also why the sightline of the Jose

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Manila, Philippines—19th-century Filipino painter Juan Luna’s 1885 long-lost art masterpiece “A Do… Va La Nave?” (oil on canvas, 21½” x 41”), whose previous owner, an Argentinean, who inherited the piece from her grandmother, Maria Alberta Esther Susana Pignocchi-Bonaldi, and recently showed up— hand carrying the painting— at Salcedo Auctions, was

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Manila, Philippines—Google Maps and Google Earth’s street-view mode, which allows Internet users to virtually explore different locations and neighborhoods through 360-degree street-level panoramic view angle, has finally reached the Philippines on September 16. This Google feature was first launched in the United States in 2007, and has since been rolled

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Manila, Philippines—In a video news report, Salve Duplito, ABS-CBN News Channel’s (ANC) resident financial adviser, talks about the emerging popularity of condotels as one of the preferred investments among Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWS), whose regular remittances sustain the mid-range residential property market in the country. Duplito reports, “Filipinos stand to