{"id":777006314,"date":"2023-06-15T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T10:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777006314"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T23:58:06","slug":"pagcor-provides-relief-to-mayon-volcano-evacuees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-provides-relief-to-mayon-volcano-evacuees","title":{"rendered":"PAGCOR provides relief to Mayon Volcano evacuees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PAGCOR has provided relief to thousands of people who live near the volcano\u2019s danger zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Philippines.- The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) is providing aid to thousands of people and families who have been forced to evacuate from the danger zones surrounding the Mayon Volcano in Albay, which may erupt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PAGCOR chairman and CEO <strong>Alejandro Tengco <\/strong>handed over 6,000 relief packs comprising essential food and non-food items to Albay 2nd District representative <strong>Joey Salceda <\/strong>on June 14 at PAGCOR&#8217;s Executive Office in Manila. The packs will be distributed among the affected residents of various towns in Albay declared permanent danger zones by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tengco said: &#8220;We hope that these care packages that we donated to affected Albayanos will bring relief to their difficult situation. Rest assured that PAGCOR will do what it can to answer the call for help of our affected kababayans.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, the state-run gaming firm and regulator organised feeding programmes in various evacuation centres in Albay following a phreatic eruption. It has since unveiled <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/pagcor-opens-second-evacuation-facility-centre-in-albay\" target=\"_blank\">multi-purpose evacuation centres<\/a>\u00a0across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAGCOR has provided relief to thousands of people who live near the volcano\u2019s danger zones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":777000296,"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 Corporation (PAGCOR), a state-run gaming firm and regulator, has provided 6,000 relief packs to thousands of families evacuated from the Mayon Volcano danger zones in Albay. This initiative, led by Chairman and CEO Alejandro Tengco, underscores PAGCOR's corporate social responsibility efforts, building on past disaster relief operations and the development of multi-purpose evacuation centers. Such actions contribute to PAGCOR's public perception and its broader governance framework beyond its core gaming mandate.","focusai_entities":"Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Alejandro Tengco, Joey Salceda, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS)","focusai_location":"The Philippines, Albay, Manila","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.7), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"CSR Impact on Operations","query":"What are the strategic implications of PAGCOR's extensive corporate social responsibility initiatives on its core gaming regulatory and operational mandates?"},{"label":"Regulatory Mandate Scope","query":"How do PAGCOR's disaster relief efforts align with its broader regulatory and governance frameworks as a state-run gaming entity?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23876,16333],"tags":[405],"class_list":["post-777006314","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\/777006314","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=777006314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777006331,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777006314\/revisions\/777006331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777000296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777006314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777006314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777006314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}