Angkas eyes four-wheel service

RIDE-HAILING mobile app, Angkas, is targeting to launch a four-wheel service called Angcars, the motorcycle taxi and delivery service provider said on Thursday.

“Angcars is designed to be an advanced ridehailing app that seamlessly blends affordability with user-friendly navigation,” Angkas Chief Executive Officer George Royeca said in a statement.

The soon-to-be-launched app seeks to introduce options like Angcars Economy and Angcars Plus, which would allow a passenger to request four-seater or six-seater vehicles, respectively.

For the motorcycle taxi app, the company is eyeing to include service features such as Angkas Health and Angkas Padala.

Angkas Health will provide “straightforward five-step process” that includes home blood testing by licensed medical professionals, while Angkas Padala will be equipped with digital seller tools, payment and disbursement access.

A PRO-WOMEN’S party-list lawmaker on Thursday called on United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Opinion and Expression Irene Khan to investigate cases of alleged “state-perpetrated” violence against women in the Philippines amid the lack of action in Congress.

“With the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) and under the Anti-Terror Law, many women experience abuses and have been filed trumped-up cases,” Gabriela Party-list Rep. Arlene D. Brosas said in a statement.

She lamented that despite the submission of 33 resolutions before the House of Representatives during the 18th Congress, no progress has been made on inquiries into alleged rights violations of women human rights defenders and activists.