MANILA, Philippines - The government is creating teams to improve the country’s business environment as the Philippines work to upgrade its standing i
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Some 150 government offices failed a test for red tape conducted by the Civil Service Commission (CSC) last year. Among the o
Read MorePHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Tiffany & Company is quietly building a diamond-polishing factory in Cambodia, a country popularly associated more with kil
Read MoreRepublic Act No. 10378 H. No. 6022 S. No. 3343 Republic of the Philippines Congress of the Philippines Metro Manila Fifteenth Congress Th
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon yesterday emphasized the need to carry out a major overhaul of the country’s national customs
Read MoreFORMER SENATOR Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. is correct in asserting that the Philippines is "poised for growth in mobile commerce," and it is safe to presume
Read MoreMANILA - The business community has called on legislators to pass key economic reform bills before the 15th Congress goes on break for the mid-term
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Aquino government is still keen on pursuing nuclear energy as a means to prevent any power shortage in the future and to m
Read MoreWhile many positive developments have been happening to the country and the economy since the Aquino administration took over in 2010, the area of h
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Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT is open to having bilateral trade agreements with other countries but it wants to prioritize multilateral agreements first like the T
Read MoreThe idea of providing the poor with access to credit through microfinancing has become widely accepted around the world, but questions remain as to
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The government is updating the country’s medium-term development plan, with focus given to needed institutional reforms that w
Read MoreThere is both good news and bad news in the 2012 SWS Survey of Enterprises on Corruption, the 10th in a series from 2000, that tracks the state of p
Read MoreTHE Philippines is on the brink of being returned to the blacklist of global finance regulators if Congress fails to pass the third amendment to the
Read MoreIT ONLY TAKES nine minutes for a worker in Tokyo (Japan) to earn enough to buy a Big Mac but a wage earner in Manila will have to toil eight times l
Read MoreU.S. Businesses Positive About Opportunities in ASEAN ASEAN Business Outlook Survey 2012/2013 (Full Report on the Philippines) Source: American Cham
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 Department of Trade and Industry reported an 8-percent increase in business name registrations last year with the automation of its sign-up proc
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