This is an article repost. Recent calls to amend the economic provisions of the 1987 Constitution, particularly those that restrict foreign ownership
Read MoreThis is an article repost. THE HOUSE committee on constitutional amendments yesterday kicked off public hearings on Charter change, initially focusin
Read MoreThis is an article repost. STRUCTURAL CHANGES are necessary if the Philippines is to fully shake off its reputation as Asia’s laggard and grow at a p
Read MoreBased on the opening remarks of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte made at the second regular session of the 15th
Read MoreThis is a reposted editorial/opinion piece. The “Freedom Constitution” helped nurture the country’s fragile, newly restored democracy. But the same p
Read MoreThis is an article repost. MANILA, Philippines - The House of Representatives is open to a “surgical” Cha-cha (Charter change) to amend the Constitut
Read MoreThis is an article repost. Immediately after President Aquino’s state of the nation address, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile came out with a state
Read MoreThis is an article repost. The country’s internal revenue authorities will soon embark on a “name and shame” drive to get the Philippines’ highest-pa
Read MoreThis is an article repost. Whenever I write about our overseas Filipino workers, as I did last Sunday, I am flooded with e-mail lamenting the governm
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. It could have been another Edsa with three personalities who made it possible present in the capacity-filled Carlo
Read MoreThis is an article repost. The Aquino administration is not keen on pushing for amendments to the economic provisions of the 1987 Charter, as it beli
Read MoreThis is an article repost. Business leaders and analysts on Monday welcomed President Aquino’s emphasis on improving governance in his State of the N
Read MoreThis is an article repost. By NICK LEGASPI President Benigno S. Aquino III has a golden opportunity to lead the Philippine economy out of the mess i
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — There is no question in my mind that we have to amend the 1987 Constitution. There are economic provisions in our Constitution
Read MoreEARLIER this month, when Moody's Investors Service raised its credit rating on the Philippines to just two steps below investment grade, government sp
Read MoreThis is an article repost. MANILA, Philippines — Government is crafting five measures that would allow full foreign ownership in restricted industrie
Read MoreThe government should be ready to implement drastic changes, possibly even including a Constitutional amendment, if it is really serious in its desi
Read MoreSPEECH OF SENATE PRESIDENT JUAN PONCE ENRILE Opening of the Second Regular Session, Fifteenth Congress 25 July 2011, Monday, 10:00 a.m. "...Perhaps
Read MoreThis is an article repost. MANILA, Philippines - Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile pitched anew yesterday the need to amend the economic provisions
Read MoreThis is an article repost. HOUSE Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and his counterpart, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, are looking to set a meeting wit
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