1971 – Former President Ferdinand Marcos creates the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) under Republic Act (RA) No. 6234 or the MWSS
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Read MoreAs more Chinese investors keen on mining assets in the Philippines inspire local industry and government officials to hike their growth targets, ant
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Read MoreMANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - Merchandise exports fell for the third straight month in July due to weakness in the electronics sector, although the
Read More(Bloomberg) -- Philippine exports fell for a third straight month in July as demand for electronics products weakened, adding to signs of a falterin
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Now that there’s a new secretary of tourism, what happens to the comprehensive National Tourism Development Plan 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 — Philippine Ambassador to the United States, Jose Cuisia, hit the ground running. Hardly had he and his family settled in Wash
Read MoreCompanies Including Google and Microsoft Fear Ending Up in Prosecutors' Sights, Chilling Online Commerce BANGKOK—Global companies are growing incre
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 MoreThis is a re-posted op/ed piece. An advertising man has replaced a businessman as the country’s tourism chief. This indicates that President Aquino 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
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