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14 May 2025
4:10PM
Chronicles Port in Batangas begins operations, aims to spur regional growth
By: Daxim L. Lucas
The port features an 82-meter-long jetty with a 14-meter draft, capable of handling vessels of up to 10,000 deadweight tons. Its pier has a load-bearing capacity of three tons per square meter.
21 Aug 2024
10:09AM
LIVES WELL LIVED: Remembering Alex Wongchuking, who steered a crisis-hit business empire toward recovery
By: Ramon C. Nocon
Tobacco magnate Alexander Dy Wongchuking — who helped grow a small cigarette firm into one of the country’s largest, lost it in the wake of a multibillion peso tax controversy, and subsequently started the recovery and transformation of his family’s business empire — passed away on August 17, 2024. He was 68.
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