NEDA awaits DA’s submission for proposed solar irrigation
MANILA - The National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) on Wednesday said it is still waiting for the Department of
Agriculture (DA) to submit its proposal...
Four tax reform bills expected to be passed this year – DOF official
MANILA - The Department of Finance expects the
Congress to pass four tax reform bills this year, a department official said
during a media roundtable on...
PH’s capacity for innovation on the rise
MANILA - The Philippines is steadily becoming
more innovative as it faces the onslaught of domestic and global headwinds.
In the latest
Global Innovation Index (GII) report,...
Security of Tenure bill should be fair to employers, workers
MANILA - The National Economic and Development
Authority (NEDA) is pushing for revisions in the bill prohibiting labor
contracting, noting the importance of investments in generating...
PH to be upper middle income country by 2020
MANILA – Socioeconomic
Planning secretary Ernesto Pernia said on Wednesday that the Philippines will
likely advance to an upper middle-income status in 2020 despite slower economic
expansion...
Green and state-of-the-art office tower to rise in Iloilo Business Park
By Isa Gilay
ILOILO City – Property giant Megaworld launched in a press briefing yesterday, July 24, a new modern office tower equipped with enhanced...
Think tank urges Duterte to revoke EO30, reduce PH coal dependence
MANILA - Following President Rodrigo Duterte’s
remarks on reducing coal dependence, energy think tank Center for Energy,
Ecology and Development (CEED) on Tuesday called on the...
PAGCOR: COA report on P2.1B losses not accurate
MANILA - The Philippine Amusement and Gaming
Corp. (PAGCOR) on Tuesday said the the Commission on Audit’s (COA) report about
the Casino Filipino (CF) Manila Bay...
Rio: ‘Very big’ improvement in telco services by 2020
MANILA - The Department of Information and
Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. said that next
year, Filipinos will feel a big improvement in telecommunications...
Biz leaders approve of thrust to cut red tape, corruption
MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte’s policy of
cracking the whip on slow-moving bureaucrats seems to have hit a sweet spot
with the business community’s movers and...