Regional News Thailand, at 38th position in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index 2010-2011, has fallen two places this year
Read MoreRegional News HCMC - Vietnam falls six places from last year to 65th out of 142 economies in the annual competitiveness ranking by the World Econom
Read MoreRegional News Indonesia has dropped two places in this year’s Global Competitiveness Report, bringing a sudden halt to an impressive climb tha
Read MoreRegional News BANGKOK, August 2, 2011 — The World Bank has upgraded Thailand’s income categorization from a lower-middle income economy to an upper
Read MoreDEALING with Manila can be trying, cables released by WikiLeaks last week indicated, with the American embassy in Manila pointing to politics and po
Read MoreThousands of documents pertaining to United States officials’ views on the Philippines have been released by WikiLeaks, among them a fairly recent r
Read MoreFOREIGN businessmen are again urging lawmakers to ease limits on the entry of professionals, saying this would open the economy to a wider talent po
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines– Top Philippine universities fared poorly in this year’s world rankings as higher education experts noted the link between decli
Read MoreIn a previous analysis of potential outcome from the initiative to amend the restrictive provisions of the Philippine Constitution, it is asserted t
Read MoreSenator Edgardo J. Angara urged the government to boost infrastructure development to help sustain the Philippines' improved global competitiveness
Read MoreFor something that concerns what couples do in the privacy of their bedrooms, it drew some over-the-top historical parallels. The Senate debate on
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines — I am glad that the House Committee on constitutional amendments has started a public consultation and information campaign, th
Read MoreThe government and the communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF) have agreed to resume peace talks sometime between late October and early Novem
Read MoreTwelve out of thousands is not a lot. Twelve is the number of bills that local and foreign business groups are urging Congress to pass before lawmak
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to start its investigation into a WikiLeaks cable report accusing former first gentlema
Read MoreMANILA, Philippines - The Aquino administration can improve the performance of government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) by ensuring a st
Read MoreThis is a re-posted opinion piece. “It’s agriculture, stupid!” That’s what we have to tell our economic leaders. If Thailand, Indonesia and Viet
Read MoreSYDNEY—Singapore led Asian countries to rank second in the world behind Switzerland in the World Economic Forum's latest survey of global competitiv
Read MorePHILIPPINE COMPETITIVENESS has improved for a second year in a row, with the country notching gains in an expanded annual list. The World Economic
Read MoreNEARLY 650 private firms and business groups have signed up for the Integrity Pledge initiative, giving the private sector-led campaign a large pool
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