Business groups on Thursday welcomed the faster-than- expected economic growth in the second quarter amid the truck ban and port congestion in Manila, and other issues like questions about the stability of power supply and prices.
Read MoreIT is important to get ready for the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which is scheduled to start on January 1, 2016.
Read MoreThe European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is pushing for the rationalization of the registration process for foreign investments, noting that bottlenecks in such procedures dampen the country's business climate.
Read MoreWith less than two years left to the end of his term, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III should ensure more reforms survive political transition in 2016 by making them laws, business leaders and analysts said yesterday.
Read MoreThe European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has been proposing a more drastic measure of totally scrapping the price caps for the country's Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) as it labeled such to be of "manipulative nature" to a free market.
Read MoreThe National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) produces a daily "Power Situation Outlook".
Read MoreA "block auction" or "joint tender" of the banked gas held by the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and the anticipated additional 200-megawatt gas supply from the Malampaya field by 2016 was proposed by the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla.
Read MoreWith the passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law creating an autonomous region in Mindanao a step closer, foreign chambers of commerce in the Philippines urged the government and private firms to speed up investments in the area for immediate development to take place.
Read MoreBack in college, I had a very big crush on this feisty, petite and wide-eyed girl with a brilliant mind. Everyone looked up to her. She was constantly on top of the dean's list and could have probably graduated from college half asleep.
Read MoreThe Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is expanding the coverage of a program involving energy audit and reduction in energy consumption to include information technology - business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms amid the country's power supply problem.
Read MoreThe National Power Corp. (Napocor) plans to acquire diesel-fed facilities to provide additional power supply for Marinduque consumers.
Read MoreEver wonder why the Philippines has attracted the least foreign direct investments into the country, compared to its ASEAN-5 neighbors? That's not hard to figure out.
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