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Iloilo

A collection of 39 Posts

The Consolidation Deadline Is the Strike Breaker LTFRB Doesn't Have to Deploy post image
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The Consolidation Deadline Is the Strike Breaker LTFRB Doesn't Have to Deploy

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by Jose Dela Cruz
Iloilo Trisikad Drivers Pay the Dubai Premium While the Excise Relief Debate Stalls in Congress post image
energy shock RA 10963 TRAIN law fuel excise tax Pantawid Pasada LTFRB Iloilo Bacolod trisikad habal-habal Dubai crude peso depreciation fuel subsidy cost of living Western Visayas Philippines DBM inter-island shipping oil deregulation Strait of Hormuz Department of Finance work-money

Iloilo Trisikad Drivers Pay the Dubai Premium While the Excise Relief Debate Stalls in Congress

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by Maria Garcia
A Year Into the Mother Tongue Rollback, Waray and Hiligaynon Teachers Are Torching Their Own Modules post image
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A Year Into the Mother Tongue Rollback, Waray and Hiligaynon Teachers Are Torching Their Own Modules

by Paolo Aquino
Iloilo and Zamboanga Ferry Fares Read Hormuz Before Pantawid Reads Manila post image
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Iloilo and Zamboanga Ferry Fares Read Hormuz Before Pantawid Reads Manila

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by Maria Garcia
Cebu and Iloilo Floor Operators Train Korean and Japanese LLMs at ₱18,000 a Month post image
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Cebu and Iloilo Floor Operators Train Korean and Japanese LLMs at ₱18,000 a Month

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by Carlo Cruz
DOH Stretched Intern Duty Hours and the Cebu Group Chat Pulled Up Last Year's Unpaid Hazard Pay post image
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DOH Stretched Intern Duty Hours and the Cebu Group Chat Pulled Up Last Year's Unpaid Hazard Pay

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by Carmen Villanueva
Caloocan Jeepney Drivers Absorb the Hormuz Premium Weeks Before Pantawid Clears post image
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Caloocan Jeepney Drivers Absorb the Hormuz Premium Weeks Before Pantawid Clears

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by Maria Garcia
Negros and Leyte Geothermal Sat Out Q2 While EDC and LGUs Argued Over a Tax Bill post image
Clean Energy Transition geothermal EDC Energy Development Corporation Negros Oriental Leyte Southern Negros Tongonan Real Property Tax EPIRA ER 1-94 host community benefit Green Energy Auction Department of Energy Department of Finance Visayas grid ERC Bacolod Tacloban Cebu Iloilo Bohol renewables energy security cost of living Philippines LGU civic life work-money

Negros and Leyte Geothermal Sat Out Q2 While EDC and LGUs Argued Over a Tax Bill

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by Maria Garcia
Manila SaaS Founders Bill in Dollars Through Delaware Because RA 12023 Made Their Cebu Engineers a Tax Problem post image
startup SaaS Manila Cebu Iloilo BIR RA 12023 Stripe Atlas Delaware C-corp digital services VAT Revenue Regulations 3-2025 RMC 47-2025 Innovative Startup Act RA 11337 IRS permanent establishment Philippines Vietnam Thailand BOI Ho Chi Minh Bangkok Mercury Brex venture capital tax arbitrage Southeast Asia work-money

Manila SaaS Founders Bill in Dollars Through Delaware Because RA 12023 Made Their Cebu Engineers a Tax Problem

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by Maria Garcia
Bataan Refines the Crude at ₱61 to the Dollar. Cebu Distributors Cannot Sell the Pump Price. post image
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Bataan Refines the Crude at ₱61 to the Dollar. Cebu Distributors Cannot Sell the Pump Price.

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by Maria Garcia
Iloilo Welding Grads Run Shopee Live for Tita and DepEd Logs None of It post image
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Iloilo Welding Grads Run Shopee Live for Tita and DepEd Logs None of It

by Isabel Castro
Jakarta Wants the Kalimantan Coal at Home. Visayas Plants Booked It for 2026 Anyway. post image
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Jakarta Wants the Kalimantan Coal at Home. Visayas Plants Booked It for 2026 Anyway.

by Maria Garcia