The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp has donated PHP53.2m for the construction of modern sports facilities in the city of Maasin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The Philippines.- The city of Maasin in Southern Leyte is to gain modern sports facilities to strengthen its sports development programme thanks to a donation from PAGCOR. The groundbreaking ceremony has been held for the centre, consisting of an oval track, tennis and basketball courts in Barangay Tam-is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maasin City mayor Nacional Mercado\u00a0<\/strong>said the facilities will benefit the promotion of grassroots sports and the cultivation of local athletes to participate in national and international sports competitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He said: \u201cWe would like to express our sincerest gratitude to PAGCOR, most especially to Chairman and CEO Andrea Domingo for helping us realize our dream of having standard sports facilities in our city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n PAGCOR chair Andrea Domingo<\/strong>\u00a0added: “The only way for us to sustain the success of our athletes in the international sports scene is to provide them with modern facilities at the community level where they could train comfortably and competitively.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n A week ago, the regulator released an additional PHP80m for the\u00a0construction of new multi-purpose evacuation centres<\/a>\u00a0and a permanent residential site in two towns in the province of Batangas. The first tranche of the PHP50m worth of MPEC, amounting to PHP25m\u00a0was released in December 2021<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp has donated PHP53.2m for the construction of modern sports facilities in the city of Maasin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp (PAGCOR) has allocated PHP53.2m for modern sports facilities in Maasin City and an additional PHP80m for multi-purpose evacuation centers in Batangas. These initiatives underscore PAGCOR's commitment to corporate social responsibility, utilizing gaming revenues for community development.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp, PAGCOR, Nacional Mercado, Andrea Domingo","focusai_location":"Philippines, Maasin City, Southern Leyte, Barangay Tam-is, Batangas","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.8), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"PAGCOR CSR Budget?","query":"What is PAGCOR's total annual CSR budget derived from GGR, and how does this compare to previous fiscal years' allocations for social infrastructure projects?"},{"label":"Regulatory Alignment?","query":"How do these social infrastructure investments align with PAGCOR's broader regulatory objectives and public mandate, particularly concerning the social license to operate within the Philippine gaming market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-28300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-news","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-pagcor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28306,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28300\/revisions\/28306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}