Malacañang maintained on Tuesday there was no need to tinker with the 1987 Charter and relax constitutional restrictions limiting foreign ownership of
Read MorePhilippine stocks rose to a record after it beat Indonesia to win an investment grade fromStandard & Poor’s, as President Benigno Aquino outshines
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 - With Labor Day barely a month away, incumbent and aspiring senators alike are cool to a legislated wage hike for the country’s w
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 MoreRandy David | Public Lives Preelection surveys do often take the form of self-fulfilling oracles. This happens when voters find the published resul
Read MoreEDITORIAL The irony in the boiling oil-smuggling issue is that everyone knows how and where it is being done and who are doing it, yet no one seems
Read MoreCielito F. Habito | No Free Lunch I often hear the lament that we Filipinos are not as mindful as our neighbors appear to be of the impending close
Read MoreArtemio V. Panganiban | With Due Respect Because of the growing worldwide interest in our surging economy, retired Justice Adolfo S. Azcuna, a memb
Read MoreAs Japan, many countries in Europe and now China wrestle with shrinking labor pools, a host of emerging nations are grappling with a different problem
Read MoreBabe Romualdez I must admit that I was one of those a bit skeptical about the “daang matuwid” and “walang wang-wang” that President Noynoy Aquino f
Read MoreThe poverty level in the Philippines has remained unchanged since 2006 despite a skyrocketing stock market and the robust economy. The problem, say ex
Read MoreThe news that Fitch Ratings has given investment grade rating to the Philippines was generally accepted with jubilation from the local and foreign inv
Read MoreArtemio V. Panganiban | With Due Respect April 2, 2013, is a sad day for the poor and powerless. On that day, our Supreme Court in Atong Paglaum vs
Read MorePresident Aquino has been included by Time magazine on its latest annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people. Aquino joined 22 other world
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Philippines to relax its foreign ownership rules to improve the business cli
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
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Read MorePHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Tiffany & Company is quietly building a diamond-polishing factory in Cambodia, a country popularly associated more with kil
Read MoreMalacañang on Thursday indicated willingness to consider the proposal of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) to lift, without amending the Const
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