NINE PRIORITY legislative measures have been identified by the Cabinet’s economic development cluster ahead of the 16th Congress’ opening next week.
Read MoreThe country’s biggest business groups and the Joint Foreign Chambers have asked the Aquino administration to implement critical and strategic measures
Read MoreThe Bureau of Customs (BOC) is set to embark on what Commissioner Ruffy Biazon calls a “proactive lobby and advocacy” to get the customs modernization
Read MoreMALACAÑAN PALACE MANILA BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 38 CREATING AN INTER-AGENCY TASK FORCE TO INITIATE, I
Read MoreTHE JOINT Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) has asked Secretary Cesar V. Purisima, as head of the Cabinet’s economic cluster and the Finan
Read MoreEDITORIAL Last month in Davao City, President Aquino told hoteliers at the Philippine MICE Conference that by 2016, when he hopes tourist arrivals
Read MoreMANILA, 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
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