Part 4 News: General Business Environment
State of the Nation Address of Rodrigo...
24 July, 2018 at 14:13
Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City, 23 July 2018
China’s Global Building Spree Runs Into Trouble...
24 July, 2018 at 12:00
Pakistan’s first metro, the Orange Line, was meant to be an early triumph in China’s quest to supplant U.S. influence here and redraw the world’s geopolitical map.
University heads fight Con-ass move
24 July, 2018 at 08:00
Several university presidents and hundreds of professors and scholars from various schools on Wednesday expressed their opposition to amending the 1987 Constitution through a constituent assembly…
[OPINION] DOTr approves NAIA Consortium
23 July, 2018 at 17:00
One of President Duterte’s promises during his campaign is to fervently help the poor. This can only be achieved by making the Philippines more inclusive through effective transportation connectivity in our country.
More contractual workers in gov’t
23 July, 2018 at 15:00
“The moment I assume the presidency, contractualization will stop.”
Business cites issues ahead of 3rd SONA
23 July, 2018 at 13:00
Businessmen will perk up their ears as President Rodrigo R. Duterte delivers his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) today amid improvements in state finances as well as perceived mounting overheating and political risks
DOF: Investors’ tax perks reach P376B in...
23 July, 2018 at 10:49
Tax incentives given away to investors – in turn, foregone revenues for the national government – totaled P376 billion from 2015 to 2016, such that the head of the Duterte administration’s economic team…
JFC statement on Senate Resolution no. 73
18 July, 2018 at 16:50
STATEMENT FOR HEARING OF SENATE ECONOMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE RE THE
FOREIGN INVESTMENT ACT OF 1989 RA 7142, as amended…
South-east Asia faces trade war fallout
18 July, 2018 at 10:06
A US-China trade war risks doing severe collateral damage to south-east Asia’s biggest emerging economies.
Cha-cha lacks Senate support
13 July, 2018 at 15:12
There is not yet enough support in the Senate for amending the Constitution for a shift to federalism, Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Wednesday.
4-mo direct investments surge 24%
12 July, 2018 at 11:59
Foreign direct investments in January to April registered net inflows of $3.2 billion, up 24.3 percent from the level in comparable period in 2017, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas said.
June inflation rate of 5.2% worries senators
10 July, 2018 at 10:18
Senators on Thursday urged the Duterte government’s state economic managers to be realistic and flexible in forecasting the country’s economic outlook saying Filipino consumers are the ones bearing the burden of inflation.
BOI reports FDIs rose 29% in 5...
9 July, 2018 at 16:59
Foreign direct investments (FDIs) registered with the Board of Investments (BOI) grew 29 percent from January to May 2018 to P7 billion compared to the P5.38 billion in the same period last year.
[OPINION] ‘Outdated’
5 July, 2018 at 13:00
In a small private school near my home, where tuition is affordable enough even for low-income families, pupils are taught robotics in first grade.
