Economic changes appear to be accelerating. The liberalization of industry ownerships via constitutional amendments is snowballing in Congress. More a
Read MoreAdvocates of Charter change in the House of Representatives may have to talk politics after all, as two senior lawmakers yesterday filed a bill seekin
Read MoreNINE PRIORITY legislative measures have been identified by the Cabinet’s economic development cluster ahead of the 16th Congress’ opening next week.
Read MoreThe government is exploring the possibility of building a new P4-billion facility beside the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) terminal 3, whi
Read MoreLeaders of the House of Representatives yesterday vowed to push for Charter change (Cha-cha) in the 16th Congress even after Malacañang rebuffed fresh
Read MoreThe Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) expects the completion of the P13.25 billion world-class communication, navigation and surv
Read MoreHave you ever tried to get a committee to agree on something? Or worse, to agree to many things? Or even worse, many things where strong positions pre
Read MoreThe Aquino administration shall push for laws that will lift restrictions on foreign investments in various domestic industries, with its economic tea
Read MoreThe Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) expects the completion of the P13.25 billion world-class communication, navigation and surv
Read MoreTHE European Union (EU) continues to expand its long-standing commitment to the Philippines to promote trade and investment for further economic devel
Read MoreDespite renewed appeals from top business groups and lawmaker friends, President Aquino is still firmly against Charter change or Cha-cha, saying the
Read MoreThe country’s biggest business groups and the Joint Foreign Chambers have asked the Aquino administration to implement critical and strategic measures
Read MoreMAJOR business groups have pressed President Benigno S. C. Aquino III to focus on some long-standing issues in the remaining three years of his term
Read MoreThe Philippines’ macroeconomic fundamentals are sound, inflation is stable, and investment confidence is high, yet it has failed to substantially incr
Read MoreThe Philippines is growing faster than China, but some Filipinos feel it could do even better and are urging Philippine President Benigno Aquino III t
Read MoreThe Aquino administration will fully support and develop five sectors that it considers critical in further reducing poverty in the country, said Arse
Read MoreSpeaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. said yesterday he intends to file a resolution in the 16th Congress convening the Senate and the House of Representativ
Read MoreSecond of two parts THERE IS NO LACK of skilled workers as evidenced by the demand for Filipino workers abroad, said John V. C. Nye, economist at G
Read MoreTHE Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has submitted to the government a roadmap towards decongesting Metro Manila and developing seamless intermodal lo
Read MoreThe Bureau of Customs (BOC) is set to embark on what Commissioner Ruffy Biazon calls a “proactive lobby and advocacy” to get the customs modernization
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