Quezon City to tax Smart, Globe load sales
By Rio N. Araja
Quezon City wants to tax Smart Communications Inc. and Globe Telecom Inc. on their multibillion-peso sales of load allowance plans and prepaid loads to customers.
THE Quezon City Regional Trial Court has junked charges filed against former Assemblyman Homobono Adaza, and four others over an attempt to unseat the Arroyo administration.
1,200 customs employees in mass layoff
Downsizing is not exclusive to the private sector as about a third of the 5,000-strong workforce of the Bureau of Customs will lose their jobs this year in a government cost-cutting scheme.
Police arrest 37 in drug flea market
Manila police have arrested 37 people in a raid on a “mini-flea market of shabu” in Sta. Cruz, Manila, said a ranking offical.