Global News 'There are a billion new consumers that are going to join the middle class in Asia over the next 10 years. We have to have access to th
Read MoreGlobal News In a long-awaited move, the House on Wednesday approved three trade deals with South Korea, Panama and Colombia, as well as the renewal
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
Read MoreIMPROVING ENFORCEMENT, raising excise tax rates on some products and streamlining investors’ fiscal perks are a preferable option for government as
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - Dutch financial giant ING Bank sees the amount of money sent home by Filipinos abroad climbing by six percent to a record lev
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Board of Investments (BOI) expects to exceed all investment expectations and break all investment records this year as it
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — The Philippines said it may offer at least two projects to investors under the so-called public-private partnership starting t
Read MoreThe Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) is aiming to introduce exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and securities lending to lure overseas investors to one of
Read MoreThe United States government has extended aid to the Philippines to allow it to eventually accede to the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP
Read MoreTHE TRADE department has proposed capacity-building programs, to be supported by the Partnership for Growth United States-led development initiative
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - A new sin tax measure would allow the government to add at least five million recipients or beneficiaries of state health insu
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The local business community is urging the Aquino administration to spend more and speed up projects under the public private
Read MoreTHE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed an injunction issued by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Pasay City stopping the Department of Finance (DOF)
Read MoreThe Philippine government has formally informed the World Trade Organization that it will appeal a panel report ruling in favor of the United States
Read MoreElectricity said to account for 30% of exporters’ operating expenses The government’s target to double exports to $120 billion in the next five yea
Read MoreTHE GOVERNMENT’S PLANS to accelerate spending appear to have stalled as it posted a budget surplus last month, with expenditures remaining weak agai
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. No one else among our Southeast Asian neighbors saw poverty worsen in the last 10 years the way we did in the Phil
Read MoreDESPITE questions on the legality of some of the provisions in the proposed General Appropriations Act, the House of Representatives, in plenary ses
Read MoreA THREE-AGENCY task force has started looking into the pricing scheme of oil companies to determine if there is truth to suspicions they work as a c
Read MoreNEW YORK – President Benigno Aquino III told American and other business leaders on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) that the Philippines was a good count
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