If ASEAN is to avoid the middle-income trap, each ASEAN country has to invest in infrastructure. This is especially true for the Philippines where basically no major infrastructure projects have flourished for years, if not decades.
For the Philippine trade chief, 2014 was " a good pause " for the expected " strong charge " in the last year and a half of the Aquino administration.
THE GOVERNMENT has called on the private sector to pull out as much cargo this week from the Port of Manila ahead of the visit of Pope Francis next week, and the Feast of the Black Nazarene this Friday.
A European company plans to invest in the Philippines for the export of coconut water.
Local and foreign business groups want a more aggressive push for reforms in the last year and half of the Aquino administration and the fast-tracking of crucial infrastructure projects, to sustain the country's economic growth.
The country's manufacturing and agriculture sectors are the sectors expected to benefit most out of the recent decision of the European Union (EU) to include the country in its list of zero-tariff exports, according to business groups.
Pag-IBIG Fund president and chief executive officer Darlene Marie B. Berberabe recently led the corporate-wide simultaneous recitation and signing of the Integrity Pledge among Fund officers and employees in line with the agency's celebration of its 34th anniversary last December 14, and as a testament that its workforce strongly believes that a public office is a public trust.
Solar technology is now shining in the Philippines, as some businessmen began to install solar panels on rooftops of schools, office buildings and even shopping malls, seven years after the passage of Republic Act No. 9513, or the Renewable Energy Law.
It's a Merry Christmas for the Philippine manufacturing and agriculture sectors, which are the sectors expected to benefit most out of the recent decision of the European Union (EU) to include the country in its list of zero-tariff exports, according to business groups.
Business Groups are resisting calls for a five-day holiday to coincide with the Papal visit next month, saying that the extra days off work are unacceptable and will hurt competitiveness.
CONGRESS is ending 2014 with next year's national budget practically in the bag, but lack of similar progress for other legislative measures prioritized by Malacañang and by business leaves such reforms increasingly at risk of inaction as legislators start jostling ahead of the 2016 national elections.
Dutch company Koppert Biological Systems will boost its presence in the Philippines next year, a move expected to help revive the declining natural farming practice among Filipino farmers. Asia Pacific area manager Bram Koppert said the company will make its products available in the Philippines through Allied Botanical Corp. (ABC) by the second quarter of 2015.
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