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EDC president Paul Aquino said this schedule was three weeks delayed.  "There was a new Executive Order 348 which required every bidder of government projects to submit a clearance from the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR)," he said. 


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BPSI had sought pioneer incentives for the multi-billion peso recycling plant to be put up in San Fernando, Pampanga.


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In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, SMC said the bank consortium will be led by the state-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP).


Under the agreement, the lenders will provide the loans to SMC by relending their respective availments under the Environmental Infrastructure Support Credit Program II of the DBP.


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DBP president and chief executive officer Remedios L.
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