{"id":31019,"date":"2022-06-22T04:25:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=31019"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:24:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T14:24:53","slug":"duterte-praises-pagcor-for-its-contributions-amid-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/duterte-praises-pagcor-for-its-contributions-amid-covid-19-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Duterte praises PAGCOR for its contributions amid Covid-19 pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PAGCOR has received a commendation from the president of the Philippines for its vital contributions to the government\u2019s Covid-19 response efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) has been held up as an example by president <strong>Rodrigo Duterte <\/strong>for its work during the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Duterte, the regulator helped millions of Filipinos who were gravely affected by the pandemic despite a decline in revenues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-net-income-down-87-in-2021-due-to-covid-19-restrictions\" target=\"_blank\">PAGCOR reported net income<\/a>\u00a0for the year was down 86.9 per cent year-on-year to\u00a0<strong>PHP203.6m (US$4.0m)\u00a0<\/strong>mainly<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>due to multiple countermeasures and lockdowns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic. However, the regulator and casino operator continues to remit funds for community projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAGCOR president and COO<strong> Alfredo Lim<\/strong>\u00a0said: &#8220;The pandemic may have gravely affected PAGCOR\u2019s revenue generation efforts but it did not stop us from responding to the call of service.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAGCOR chairman and CEO <strong>Andrea Domingo\u00a0<\/strong>added: &#8220;When the Universal Health Care (UHC) Act or Republic Act 11223 was signed into law in February 2019,\u00a0<strong>PAGCOR was tapped as a funding source<\/strong>. Hence, 50 per cent of our remittances to the National Treasury are mandated to be transferred to the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation at the end of each quarter.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-awarded-at-2022-privacy-awareness-week\" target=\"_blank\">the regulator picked up two awards<\/a>\u00a0at the National Privacy Commission\u2019s 2022 Privacy Awareness Week.\u00a0PAGCOR beat ten other nominees to win the Privacy Management Program Award (Government Sector). Data privacy officer\u00a0<strong>Maria Concepcion Gloria-Rubio\u00a0<\/strong>was named Data Protection Officer of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAGCOR has received a commendation from the president of the Philippines for its vital contributions to the government\u2019s Covid-19 response efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":19050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[16344,405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019"}],"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=31019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31043,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31019\/revisions\/31043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}