MANILA, Philippines - The local business community is urging the Aquino administration to spend more and speed up projects under the public private
Read MoreThis is a re-posted op-ed piece. The wildcat strike at the Philippine Airlines staged at the height of Typhoon “Pedring” more than illustrated the ag
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Read MoreMANILA, Philippines—The San Miguel group is in the “advanced” planning stage to build two new coal-fired power plants in Cavite and Leyte, both part
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines—Bidding for the 13-kilometer elevated road that will link the two major expressways at the north and south of Metro Manila is se
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 MoreTHE COUNTRY will have to depend less on electronics if export development goals are to be achieved, a Cabinet official yesterday said. “We need to
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 MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. “Why is it,” former Socio-economic Planning Secretary Felipe Medalla remarked to friends aloud, “that for a countr
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 MoreRegional News They have helped invest nearly $1 billion in place once seen as too risky Sigit Prasetya is a smartly dressed mathematics whiz, a st
Read MoreRegional News In Japan's most aggressive move to promote exports of nuclear technology since the Fukushima Daiichi accident in March, a Tokyo-based
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
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