THE LOCAL business process outsourcing (BPO) industry expects to rake in $11 billion this year, up nearly a quarter from 2010, and then grow the num
Read MoreA STIMULUS PACKAGE expected to allow the government to meet this year’s growth goals will be unveiled today and will include funding for various inf
Read MoreLawmakers are looking to direct the Department of Energy (DoE) and the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) to conduct anoth
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part 2 When President Aquino unveiled the PPP program to the world on the occasion of his first state-of-the-nati
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The government is eyeing the transfer of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) from Metro Manila to Clark, Pampanga, T
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The country’s power rates are now the fifth highest in the world, Rep. Raymond Democrito Mendoza of the party-list group Trade
Read MoreVehicle sales in the first three quarters continued to be sluggish, slipping 3.5 percent to 105,663 units from 109,517 units in the same period last
Read MoreSeeks amendment to Open Skies policy, regaining Category 1 status MANILA, Philippines -- Secretary Manuel “Mar” Roxas II plans to inject modificati
Read MoreThis is a re-posted op-ed piece. Major mining companies have sent an SOS to the government, seeking protection for an industry that the government li
Read MoreThis is a re-posted press release. Press Release October 13, 2011 Local officials laud mine exploration withdrawal Tablas Island, Romblon
Read MoreThis is a re-posted special report. Two-thirds of the big-ticket projects under the Aquino administration’s Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Program
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part I The Aquino administration’s centerpiece public-private partnership (PPP) program will have to undergo a ma
Read MoreThis is a re-posted three-part special report. (Second of three parts) When then presidential candidate Benigno S. Aquino III appeared before the Ma
Read MoreDoTC to ‘get biggest bang out of every peso spent’ The Department of Transportation and Communications has unveiled an ambitious five-year developm
Read MoreWe welcome the recent announcement of the President that two leading US beverage companies will be investing in the coconut water industry for marke
Read MoreMaynilad Water Services Inc.—the water distribution firm controlled by businessman Manuel Pangilinan—prefers to develop small but scalable water sou
Read MoreThe Department of Energy is pushing for the signing of an agreement among several government agencies to stop rampant smuggling of fuel products in
Read MoreFrench firm to be paid for work already done French government-backed consortium Eiffel Matiere has agreed to renegotiate the contract for the cont
Read MoreAustralian and Japanese officials expressed concern Thursday over an attack by more than 200 communist guerrillas on three mining compounds in Surig
Read MoreThe 2011 GDP growth forecast for the Philippine economy has turned gloomier and gloomier. First, the Asian Development Bank, then the World Bank, th
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