Regional News Manufacturing activity across Asia slowed in August, offering more evidence that weaker demand in the developed world and tighter mon
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The issue first dawned on me many years ago when, in response to my criticism of billboards that have engulfed the
Read MoreBeijing—The Philippines and China on Wednesday agreed on a five-year development program for trade and economic cooperation that is expected to gene
Read MoreA DOWNWARD REVISION of this year’s growth targets will be on the table when the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC) meets to assess the
Read MoreRegional News MUMBAI, India — It seems to be a national obsession in India: measuring the country’s economic development against China’s yardstick.
Read MoreTHE PHILIPPINES and China have committed to strengthen economic and trade cooperation, adhere to international law in resolving maritime disputes, a
Read MoreBenigno Aquino III, the popular Philippine president, should begin to worry about his country’s disappointing GDP growth of 3.4 per cent in the quar
Read MoreRegional News NEW DELHI—India's economy grew 7.7% in the April-to-June period from a year earlier, its slowest pace in six quarters, confirming fea
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. The Philippine economy grew by 3.4% during the second quarter of 2011, the slowest since President Aquino III took
Read MoreThis is a re-posted statement. Growth of the Philippine economy eased to a modest 3.4 percent in the second quarter of 2011. In comparison with the c
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Can political reform be divorced from economic reform? Is the Pope Jewish? There’s this fashionable idea that what
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Carjacking and killings have become an almost daily occurrence in Metro Manila, and yet the Philippine National Po
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Even from her sickbed, Gloria Arroyo doesn’t stop. The full-page ad boasting of her achievements does it all over
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. THE PHILIPPINE Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in behalf of its of more than 35,000 enterprises, 108 local chamb
Read MoreSECOND-QUARTER economic growth could have come in below 5% because of the country’s weak export performance, a Cabinet official yesterday said.
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Philippine government is expected to bring home $2 billion worth of new investments from China during Pres
Read MoreThis is an article repost. MANILA, Philippines - Total foreign direct investments approved by the investment promotion agencies of the government soa
Read MoreRegional News This is an article repost. (Last of Two Parts) MANILA, Philippines — “While an Asian Century is certainly plausible, it is not pre-or
Read MoreThis is an article repost. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Monday reported that remittances sent home by overseas Filipinos reached $1.74 b
Read MoreThis is an article repost. MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines can easily triple the inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) to at least $8 billi
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