1971 – Former President Ferdinand Marcos creates the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) under Republic Act (RA) No. 6234 or the MWSS
Read MoreJAPANESE OFFICIALS cited the Philippine business environment, power rates, infrastructure, and foreign equity limits as con
Read MoreRalph Recto is right. P-Noy and DOTC Secretary Mar Roxas will have to think of a better excuse to raise MRT fares than to say that it is unfair to t
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Senate would investigate the P50-billion presidential bridge program of the Arroyo administration that was made through th
Read MoreBRITAIN has expressed concern on the delays of British proposals for the public-private partnership (PPP) projects which are pending since June, say
Read MoreThis is re-posted article. THE HEAD of the agency tasked to oversee the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) scheme has quit, Cabinet officials yesterday
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - President Aquino yesterday said that a “super body” will be created to take over the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWU
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - China’s acceding to the Aquino administration’s request to have the corruption-tainted NorthRail project “reconfigured” is a s
Read MoreAN AMERICAN airline has apparently taken issue with the Philippines’ common carrier tax, although preferring instead to have the United States embas
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - For whatever it is worth, I have a vision for the Philippine economy for the year 2020, a decade from now. I do not claim tha
Read MoreHIGHER TOLLS, creation of a coordinating agency for water utilities and the delayed public-private partnership (PPP) program were tackled by Preside
Read MoreCONTAINER terminals in Subic Bay Freeport may not get the significant volume they need just to break even if the two major ports in Manila keep on e
Read MoreBERLIN — It will not be easy to run a national railroad on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power, but that is what Deutsche Bahn of Germ
Read MoreTHE interagency Infrastructure Committee (Infracom), chaired by the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda), is slated to submit its comm
Read MoreTHE Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), the infrastructure arm of Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), underscored its commitment to build long-
Read MoreCAGAYAN DE ORO -- Plans to build a P500-million highway leading to the new Laguindingan international airport have been endorsed to the national gov
Read MoreRegional News The region needs more farm-to-market roads and fewer superhighways, more basic irrigation and fewer megadams. China's infrastructure
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. There are danger signals coming out from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III dec
Read MoreThe Energy Department warned Thursday that Luzon may face brownouts in 2014 unless new baseload capacities are built starting this year. It said Luz
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. It’s about time to raise the fares for the elevated railways of Metro Manila, but it better be for the right reaso
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