Business optimism has continued to improve, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) yesterday reported, with companies said to be banking on increased
Read MoreAn employer group has appealed the order which raised minimum wages in Metro Manila by P30 claiming that it is not economically feasible. In a moti
Read MoreThe Philippines this year rose to the middle rung of a biennial ease of trade ranking after placing in the bottom third in 2010, with a report notin
Read MoreThe Philippines has joined a network of countries that facilitates multiple trademark registration by requiring only one application, the Intellectu
Read MoreMore firms based in the United Kingdom (UK) are looking at opportunities in the Philippines’ growing economy, the official representing UK’s financi
Read MoreThe Department of Trade and Industry reported an 8-percent increase in business name registrations last year with the automation of its sign-up proc
Read MoreWe, the Joint Foreign Chambers, support fair and competitive wages for the Philippine workforce. Fair in the sense that as many Filipinos as possible
Read MorePrivate sector workers earning the floor pay in Metro Manila should soon see their monthly take rise by about P900 under a new wage decision reached
Read MoreForeign ownership restrictions enshrined in the Constitution should be kept, if only because Filipinos have greater stake in the country’s developme
Read MoreXstrata Plc (XTA), the world’s fourth- biggest copper producer, risks missing a 2016 target to begin extracting about $60 billion of minerals from i
Read MoreIncreased "interdependency" in global production networks for electronics requires greater multilateral cooperation, the World Trade Organization
Read MoreHONG KONG -- Southeast Asian nations are swallowing an outflow of money from India, as foreign investors lose patience with its policy paralysis and
Read MoreGeneral policies regarding the implementation of retail competition and open access in the power spot market were released yesterday by the Energy d
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has committed more investments from Japan in at least 20 industrial sectors
Read MoreUnited States-based software firm Axway has been tapped to help advance the ongoing pilot implementation of the Asean Single Window (ASW) project, w
Read MoreEconomic ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan aim to finalize a 10-year road map to double trade between the
Read MoreMANILA—San Miguel Corp.'s President Ramon Ang is placing a multibillion-dollar bet that he can reinvigorate Asia's oldest air carrier and tap into t
Read MoreMANILA — Teenagers drive down a dark, abandoned road. Their engine seizes. They must walk through the night as sinister shadows flicker around them.
Read MoreJapan has joined the ranks of countries that deem Philippine taxes on foreign carriers as discriminatory, records from a March trade policy review a
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — Local and national agencies are conducting their own assessments on specific measures where they gave themselves high scores o
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