The government is open to hold more dialogues with the business community on how to further enhance the country's business climate and attract more investors.
German national Dietmar Dan Braun was still a manager at the E-learning Division of the World Bank, he traveled for the first time to Manila and found here a place where he could see himself retiring.
The Philippines has continued its advance in competitiveness in the latest annual report of the World Economic Forum, riding on the impact of reforms that have enabled the country to make the biggest gains among economies tracked since 2010.
Various government agencies are set to implement new measures to help ease congestion in key Metro Manila ports, a Palace official said.
Industry Groups are apprehensive over an order instructing importers and brokers to withdraw their overstaying Customs- cleared containers in Manila ports by Sept. 8.
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.
IT is important to get ready for the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which is scheduled to start on January 1, 2016.
The 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.
With 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.
The 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.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) produces a daily "Power Situation Outlook".
A "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.