DAVAO CITY — The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)-Davao City office is partnering with the Knights of Online Marketers, Inc., a start-up information and communication technology firm, to tap into the growing demand for virtual office assistants.
THE INFORMATION technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry surpassed its 2014 revenue target of $18 billion, driven by health care information management (HIM), the industry association said.
THE ENERGY Regulatory Commission (ERC) has set generation capacity limits for companies this year in order to discourage abuse of market power in the industry.
IT’S NO SECRET that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) was strongly opposed to our legislators’ bill to increase the tax exemption ceiling on employee bonuses to P82,000 from the previous P30,000. With the law now in place and the BIR having issued the implementing regulations just this week, most people expect the BIR to find ways to make up for the lost revenue, even as it lowered its income projection for 2015.
THE SUGAR Regulatory Administration (SRA) said sugar output is expected to fall below initial projections and has eliminated the export allocation to non-United States (US) markets to make way for domestic use of the commodity.
PALO, LEYTE — The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Eastern Visayas is optimistic about meeting its P6.45-billion target this year as the business sector shows signs of recovery from typhoon Yolanda (international name: Haiyan), with collections in the first two months running ahead of their year-earlier pace.
DAVAO CITY — The Mindanao Beef Cattle Development Experimental and Research Project is crossbreeding domestic cattle with Hereford and Jersey varieties from the United Kingdom with the intention of boosting meat and milk yields.
THE dispute between the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) and one of its private concessionaires still has a way to go as both parties stood firm on their respective positions on rates.
MINDANAO’s power supply situation is expected to stabilize following the return to service of a 105-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant unit.
SALES of passenger cars continue to boost performance of the domestic auto industry in February.