MANILA, 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 thing going for it is that it can’t be suspected of being a ploy to keep a president in power. Which was what all the efforts to change the Char
Read MoreMalacañang has ordered the 90-day suspension of an elite Bureau of Customs team of antismuggling operatives for alleged abuse of authority and extor
Read MoreBUTUAN CITY – Communist rebels late Monday freed the two remaining hostages they took following the simultaneous raids they staged on three mining c
Read MorePRESIDENT Benigno S. C. Aquino III said that amendments to economic provisions in the Constitution are not necessary for economic progress but said
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. Part 2 For the electronics and semi-conductor sector, which operate on a 24/7 basis every minute, every second co
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. I was still a kid when I first heard the claim that our country was a land of limitless potentials. Agriculture wa
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. In his September-October 2011 Foreign Policy article (“The South China Sea is the future of conflict”) Robert D. K
Read MoreBESIDES the constitutional issues on the proposed mode for Charter change, the opening up of the economic provisions for amendments would give the g
Read MoreAN EASING of ownership limits will be proposed by the Board of Investments (BoI) during an upcoming review of the Foreign Investment Negative List,
Read MoreThis is a re-posted 5-page special report from Foreign Policy magazine. The 21st century's defining battleground is going to be on water. Europe is
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. WHO ARE the poor? Where are they? Ofelia walks every day with her children to the forest to gather hearts of banan
Read MorePRESIDENT Aquino declared his four-day official visit to Japan a “resounding success” after he was promised some $1.78 billion in investments in ene
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 MorePlans to shorten foreign investment negative list The government has committed to allow foreigners to invest in more industries and practice more p
Read MoreCONGRESS has again turned its sights on revamping the Constitution but its leaders yesterday pledged that amendments would be limited this time to e
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. One cannot fail to be impressed by the swiftness with which the leaders of the two chambers of Congress have agree
Read MoreThe CEOs of the top corporations in the country have pledged to renounce any form of bribery and to conduct their business ethically according to a
Read MoreHouse Minority Leader Edcel Lagman on Saturday said the agreement among congressional leaders to use the legislative process to amend the Constituti
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