Telco, Red Cross team up anew for typhoon efforts
SMART Communications and Philippine Red Cross Iloilo have once more joined forces to assist the typhoon victims in Iloilo.
SMART Communications and Philippine Red Cross Iloilo have once more joined forces to assist the typhoon victims in Iloilo.
Smart Communications Inc. has normalized services in many of the provinces hit hard by Typhoon “Pablo,” and has put up free call and charging stations there.
Millions of Filipinos all over the world will be able to join the National Thanksgiving Mass for the canonization of San Pedro Calungsod in Cebu City, in real time, via the Internet. This will be possible through the support of wireless leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) and its parent firm PLDT to the Archdiocese of Cebu.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS giants Globe Telecom and Smart Communications will file motion for consideration on the recent memorandum issued by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) lowering interconnection rates and requiring mobile operators to give refund to their subscribers for the alleged excess charge for text messages.
Labor officials rescued three child laborers from a construction site in Negros Occidental recently. In a report to Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, DOLE Region 6 Director Ponciano Ligutom Jr. said the minors, aged 16-17 years old, were found working at an excavation site along the highway at Brgy. Calumangan, Bago City.
A TOTAL of 77 pupils from grades 1 to 3 of Catarman Elementary School in barangay Catarman, Dauis town, Bohol will benefit from mentoring sessions after telecommunications company and Holy Name University(HNU) signed an agreement to implement smart CommuniTeach in school.
A more efficient registration system of patients, consultations and medical services rendered is now in place to benefit the province of Iloilo. Smart Communications Inc., the Department of Health (DoH) and representatives of regional and provincial hospitals and health units in Iloilo recently signed a covenant to implement a system called SHINE (or Secured Health [...]
MANILA, Philippines—Endangered marine animals have become collateral damage in the long-standing dispute over the Spratlys, an oil-rich group of islands in the South China Sea claimed by six countries including the Philippines, a leading environmental advocate said. Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan, chief executive officer of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)-Philippines, expressed concern over [...]
MANILA, Philippines—A councilor has cried foul over a court petition filed by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim that called for the nullification of a recently approved ordinance that granted tax breaks to Smart Communications Inc. Councilor Joel Chua particularly criticized city legal officer Renato de la Cruz, who acted as Lim’s counsel in the filing of [...]
