THE LAND Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has released the implementing guidelines for its plan to offer premium transport services on routes with large volumes, particularly those serving central business districts (CBDs).
DAVAO CITY — Mindanao’s power supply situation improved yesterday with the resumption of STEAG State Power, Inc.’s full operation of its two coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 205 megawatts (MW), but the main grid remains 127 MW short of peak demand.
A MECHANISM for deploying financing to local climate change programs is still not available, hindering the ability to measure their effectiveness, an official with the People’s Survival Fund (PSF) said.
THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) will launch next month a five-year road map that is intended to help e-commerce make up a quarter of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 2020.
December is just around the corner, the month of giving and spending extravagantly. Employees like me are very much eager to get hold of their 13th month pay, Christmas bonuses and final pay checks for the year. By this time, employers should already be preparing for the annualization of their employees’ compensation, which will determine the adjusted withholding tax due on compensation, and the employees’ net final pay for the year.
DAVAO CITY — The Japanese government is hoping its newly-launched biodiesel project with used cooking oil as its feedstock in Davao City will serve as a model for similar future undertakings in other cities.
DAVAO CITY — Mindanao’s business sector is pushing for government to adopt policies that will decentralize the issuance of permits and speed up the release of the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the amended Cabotage Law to encourage more investment into the south.
FEARING a nascent global climate accord could be strangled at birth by skeptical US Republicans, President Barack Obama is wooing an unlikely ally — big business.
ILOILO CITY — The newly built P700-million Iloilo Convention Center (ICC), which was used for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings in September and October, has yet to attract bidders for its operation and management.
BEFORE Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. became the e-commerce giant that it is today, it was a small business with founders who knew very little about the Internet.