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PEZA Director General Charito Plaza(file photo) MANILA - The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources have identified at least seven new locations in Mindanao as viable lands for economic zone development. In a statement Thursday, PEZA said these lands viable for agro-industrial, agro-forestry, mineral processing, and eco-tourism are located in the Caraga Region. It said four of the proposed special economic zones will be located in Agusan del Norte, and one each in Agusan del Sur, Surigao del Norte, and Surigao del Sur. "We aim to restore back the once major industry of wood and put order in the utilization of the raw minerals processed into many other products in Caraga, which has the biggest timber and mining lands," PEZA Director General Charito Plaza said. The PEZA currently has 23 agro-industrial zones across the country. These newly identified lands for development are offshoot of the memorandum of understanding ....
DOE SecretaryAlfonso Cusi (Presidential photo) MANILA - The Department of Energy (DOE) supports the extension of work-from-home arrangement and the proposal for a compressed work week to conserve oil consumption amid the non-stop fuel price hikes. "We also support 'yong panukala na four-day work week at palawigin natin ang work-from-home at maiwasan ang pagbiyahe ng ating mga mamamayan (We also support the proposal for a four-day work week and the extension of work-from-home set up for the public to avoid traveling)," DOE Secretary Alfonso Cusi said during President Rodrigo Duterte's Talk to the People aired Wednesday. Adopting a four-day work week was a recommendation from Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua during the same meeting. This proposal aims to alleviate work-related expenses, such as fuel and transport, for the general population. Since Metro Manila was placed under Alert Level 1 at the start of the month, the government has encouraged thos ....
MANILA - The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) has approved PHP807.83 billion investments since September 2016. In a statement Friday, PEZA director general Charito Plaza reported that there were 88 special economic zones (SEZ) registered during the Duterte administration. These numbers contributed to the total investment approvals in the investment promotion agency since its inception in 1995 amounting to PHP4.04 trillion, and now with a total of 415 SEZs across the country. PEZA has 4,665 locators to date. Jobs created within the economic zones reached more than 1.78 million. "With the national elections just around the corner, PEZA's mission is beyond politics and we continue to put our best foot forward so we can bring out the best of the Philippines and the best of our fellow kababayans," Plaza said. Plaza added that the new models of ecozones have contributed to the growth of PEZA. For the past six years, PEZA has introduced new types of ecozones such as agr ....