The first batch of the six Turkish-made T129 “ATAK” attack helicopters will arrive in December, Philippine Air Force (PAF) commander Lt. Gen. Allen Paredes said Tuesday night. “Deadly…coming this December. The T129 Attack Helicopter of the Philippine Air Force,” Paredes said in a Facebook post. He did not give other details on the arrival of the helicopters. The six T129 attack helicopters will be acquired for a total contract price of USD269,388,862 (about PHP12.9 billion) from the Turkish Aerospace Industries through a government-to-government mode of procurement under Republic Act 9184 or the Government Procurement Reform Act. The T129 is a
The provincial government of Sorsogon will give a cash incentive to the top 20 out of the 541 barangays with the highest vaccination rate in relation to population. In an interview on Wednesday, Salvador Mendoza, provincial information officer, said the top 20 villages will receive PHP1 million each. “The said incentive is part of the province’s strategy to ramp up vaccination rate. The top 20 barangays with the highest vaccination rate by Dec. 31, 2021, will be the winners,” Mendoza said. He added that “it will be the discretion of the barangays on how they will spend the money if
Sales of the Philippine booth during this year’s China International Import Expo (CIIE), China’s largest buying expo, reached USD597.34 million, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reported Wednesday. These sales came from the 40 Filipino food companies that participated in the 3rd CIIE in Shanghai, China from November 5 to 10. The DTI said the Philippine booth’s sales this year at CIIE surpassed last year’s value amounting to USD462 million. Of the total sales at the 2021 CIIE, USD575.03 million came from export deals through memorandum of understandings. Another USD22.31 million sales were booked through the business matching activities
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said he believes that the Code of Conduct (COC) being worked out by member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is among the measures to ensure peace and stability in the South China Sea (West Philippine Sea). “Ang isang solusyon dito ay yung Code of Conduct na pinag-uusapan ngayon ng Asean, of course led by our Department of Foreign Affairs. Nandun sila at ng China para magkaroon ng Code of Conduct upang itong South China Sea ay maging isang karagatan na tahimik at magandang magnegosyo (One of the solutions to ensure
The city government here will continue to accommodate Safe, Swift, and Smart Passage (S-PaSS) applications of airline passengers, although a travel coordination permit is no longer required for those bound for Bacolod. This developed after the Negros Occidental provincial government, which has jurisdiction over Silay City, where the Bacolod-Silay Airport is located, mandated the submission of S-PaSS by passengers passing through the province going to this capital city. While waiting for legal advice from the city government, Councilor Israel Salanga, chair of the action team on returning overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), said on Wednesday the S-PaSS requirement be resumed in
The Philippine Navy in the Visayas successfully test-fired naval armaments off the coast of Camotes Island in Cebu province on Wednesday. In a statement, the Naval Forces Central (NFC) said the Naval Task Force 50 test-fired its naval guns aboard the patrol craft BRP Abraham Campo (PC396) in the seawater near the group of islands. “A notice to all mariners (NOTAM) was issued prior to the test-fire date to advise transiting vessels of the danger in the exercise area,” Lt. Junior Grade Frances Maye Macapinig, NFC’s public affairs officer, said in a statement. The Naval Task Force 50 utilized two
