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One trip, one ticket: New EU rules aim to ease train travel
4+ hour, 16+ min ago (718+ words) The'EU'plans to force railway companies to sell rivals' tickets on their websites and share data with booking platforms, under new rules unveiled Wednesday aiming to boost train travel. Brussels said the move, fiercely opposed by operators, would make journeys more…...
Fuel tax suspension seen aiding poorest Filipinos
1+ week, 6+ day ago (343+ words) Suspending excise taxes on petroleum products would be felt most immediately by low-income households, according to Emmanuel Leyco, president and chief economist of Credit Rating and Investor Services Philippines. In a Saturday radio interview, Leyco said removing fuel excise taxes…...
Removal of excise tax and VAT on fuel products a "big factor, says Pumaren
1+ week, 6+ day ago (355+ words) The House Committee on Transportation chair and member of the Justice Committee, Representative Franz Pumaren said the removal of excise tax and value-added tax (VAT) on fuel products indicates a "big factor" that must be considered." "Of course, removing the…...
DOF seeks fuel tax relief under UPLIFT amid energy crisis
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (235+ words) The Department of Finance Philippines (DOF) has requested President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to activate Republic Act 12316, or the Unified Package for Livelihoods, Industry, Food, and Transport (UPLIFT) of 2026, which allows the suspension or reduction of excise taxes on petroleum products....
Of trains, pains and promises
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (706+ words) I will have myself run over by a train if the LRT-1 extension to Cavite is not completed within my term." The line, delivered with bravado and impatience, came from a late President who seemed certain the government machinery would…...
BEYOND THE PNR TRACKS: The trillion-peso railway question (Part 3)
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (927+ words) Long before the North'South Commuter Railway (NSCR) became a multibillion-peso megaproject, the Philippines already had a rail backbone. The system began with the Ferrocarril de Manila'Dagupan railway in 1892, linking Manila to Pangasinan. By the mid-20th century, the network that would later…...
DHSUD backs Calumpit rail resettlement plan
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (266+ words) The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has stepped up coordination with the local government of Calumpit, Bulacan to support the resettlement component of the North'South Commuter Railway Extension (NSCR-Ex). Families displaced by rail expansion project Officials from…...