THE Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) has listed a number of constraints that are hampering the manufacturing sector from sustaining the steady growth that it has experienced in the last five years.
Mar 042016
BusinessWorld Online: Economy
Mar 042016
THE GOVERNMENT has scheduled for May the pre-qualification round for the newly-rolled out P65.09-billion Light Rail Transit (LRT) Line 6 public-private partnership (PPP) project that will connect the cities of Bacoor and Dasmariñas in Cavite province.
Mar 042016
INTERNET in the Philippines continues to feature high costs and slow download and upload speeds, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) said.
Mar 032016
THE PHILIPPINE and Thai electric vehicle sectors yesterday announced the potential for trade links between the two countries, with Manila ready to export “bulky” vehicle parts as early as this year to take advantage of zero tariffs within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community.
Mar 032016
POTENTIAL INVESTORS for the public-private partnership (PPP) contract to operate and maintain the Light Rail Line 2 (LRT-2) have one more month to prepare, after the Transportation department moved the auction date to April.
Mar 032016
THE DEPARTMENT of Energy (DoE) is expanding the membership of a technical working group that will look into setting stricter emission standards for coal-fired power plants to align industry practice with the country’s climate change pledges.
Mar 022016
STRONGER IMPORTS of capital goods last year indicate the continued expansion of the Philippine economy into 2016, according to the Finance department’s chief economist.
Mar 022016
THE SUBIC BAY Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) posted pre-tax earnings of P1.1 billion last year after it incurred a hefty increase in foreign exchange losses that cut into its operating revenues.
Mar 022016
The 1997 National Internal Revenue Code requires that the assessment and collection of internal revenue taxes be done only within a limited period. Generally, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) must assess and collect any deficiency national tax within three (3) years from the prescribed date for filing tax returns or the date of actual filling, whichever is later.
Mar 012016
THE DECLINE in Philippine online hiring slowed in February compared with the end of 2015 but remained significantly worse than year-earlier levels, online hiring site Monster.com said in announcing its latest Monster Employment Index. (MEI).