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• BSP extends regulatory relief to banks affected by ASF, Covid-19 outbreak
  The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has made available a grant of regulatory relief to banks and quasi banks (QB's) that have sustained losses due to exposures to borrowers, industries and sectors severely affected by the African swine fever (ASF) and the Covid-19.
• BSP wants banks to report cases of money laundering within 24 hours
  The bangko sentral ng pilipinas (BSP) will require banks and non-banks to report within 24 hours any significant money laundering terrorism financing, and proliferation financing incident.
• BDO closure will hurt 200k clients.
  BDO continues to fight the move of the Cebu City Government to shut down 27 of it’s branches in the City.
• Bank lending slows as rate hikes bite
  Preliminary data released by the BSP showed that loans released by universal and commercial banks reached P10.64 trillion in end - November last year, P1.28 trillion higher than the P9.35 trillion disbursed in the same period in 2021.
• BSP eases loan limit for single borrowers
  The Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP) has enchanced the rules on single borrowers' limit (SBL) to allow banks to readily support the financing requirements of the economy
• The Medical City launches Center for Gender Health and Wellness
  Access to comprehensive and quality health care is one of the vital rights of any individual. It should, first and foremost, serve all colors and harness gender-sensitivity practices within the community. As a way of forwarding this cause, The Medical City launches the Center for Gender Health and Wellness, which is designed to provide holistic gender-sensitive health care to members of the LGBTIQ+ in order to maximize their overall health, psychological well- being, and self-fulfillment.
• Is online teaching learning program modality a boon or bane? Stories of teachers and students of the College of Customs Administration
• SC amends rules on law student practice.
  The Supreme Court (SC) conducted the Regional Roll-out and Training Workshop for Central and Eastern Visayas on the Revised Law Student Practice Rule. SC Associate Justice Alexander Gesmondo chairperson of the Oversight Committee on the implementation of the Rule, said that the law was amended because law students would be able to develop their skills and to be socially aware when they become lawyers. On the other hand, Joan Largo dean, of USC Law and president of the Philippine Association of Law Schools said that the implementation of the rule 138-A will take effect in 2020 -2021 in all law schools nationwide. Largo added that this Rule is a requirement for all the law schools without the need for accreditation and this student law practice will be part of the curriculum and a mandatory requirement for a law student to have rendered law practice before taking the Bar Examinations.
• LTO, LTFRB support proposed ordinance on terminals, stops
  The Land transportation office (LTO) and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) posed no objection to a proposed ordinance to allow the Cebu City Government to pud up terminals and stops for public utility jeepneys and modern buses and jeeps or beeps.
• Tourism Development And Socio-Economic Opportunities In Selected Area Of Olango Island
• MPIF, TMO partnership strengthens tubbataha marine conservation
  Metro pacific investments foundation, Inc.'s (MPIF) commitment to support the conversation of the tubbataha reefs natural park and world heritage site (TRNP) has reinforced its biodiversity and habitat protection, research, monitoring and restoration program by providing the necessary funding to mobilize ecosystem research, monitoring and enforcement.
• Community views on human rights aspects of the police service in Cebu City
• Is Online Teaching Learning Modality A Boon Or Bane? Stories Of Teachers And Students Of Criminal Justice
• Challenges Among Food Vendore In Carbon Night Market In CEBU
• Hotels asked to lower rates for local tourists.
  The Department of Tourism in Central Visayas said it is now working with hotel operators in Cebu to lower room rates in an attempt to trigger interest of the local market to take vacation within the province. According to tourism undersecretary Arturo Boncato Jr. hotels and resorts in Cebu agreed to slash rates in order to boost domestic bookings. Buscato met with key tourism stakeholders in Cebu, together with tourism officers in 40 towns and cities within the province to start of programs which drum up local spending in tourism. Hotels and resorts are encouraged to offer attractive and much affordable prices in order to draw interest from the domestic market.
• Church to discuss plight of victims, perpetrators of human trafficking.
  Archdiocese of Cebu official has proposed to create a Church-based group that will investigate the plight of the victims and alleged perpetrators of human trafficking in the country, when they learned about the sexual abuse and torture of the kids allegedly by an Australian pedophile and his Filipina girlfriend who was arrested in Malapascua Island, Daanbantayan in north Cebu. Archdiocese of Cebu spokesperson urged the faithful to pray for the victims and their respective families.
• SEC warns against upsys, elizabeth esty and eitprime
  The securities and exchange commission (SEC) warned the public against putting money in three entities, which are soliciting investments without first securing a license.
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu City
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu
• Experiences of Philippine National Police Non-Commissioned Police Officer (PNP-NCPO) in the implementation of Anti-Drug Campaign Program in Ginatilan and Malabuyoc
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu (Dumanjug and Ronda)
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu City
• Community views on human rights aspects of police service in Cebu
• A comparative study on consumer's preferences on medium priced coffee vs. high-end coffee
• Cebu City street vendors get P8M aid from Dole
  THE Cebu City Government received PS million in cash aid from the Department of Labor and Employment (Dole on Tuesday, March 17, 2020, and it will be distributed to the 400 street vendors affected by road clearing operations in the later part of 2019