TRANSFORMING the country’s economic zones into trade facilitation hubs can boost the country’s competitiveness amid an increasingly integrated Southeast Asia, Philippine Exporters Confederation, Inc. (Philexport) said in a recent statement.
PRELIMINARY investigations to determine whether safeguard duties should be imposed on imported newsprint, and galvanized iron (GI) and pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI) to protect local industries will be completed by January and February, respectively.
THE ASIAN Development Bank (ADB) has increased its funding for development projects in the Asia-Pacific by a tenth in 2011-2012 as it recognized the continuing problems of poverty and climate change in the region.
THE TRANSPORTATION agency hopes to award the P3.769-billion contract to expand the capacity of one of the mass railway systems in the metropolis before the year ends, its top official said.
THE NATIONAL Economic Development Authority (NEDA) is expected to release before the end of this month a type of progress report on the Philippine Development Plan (PDP), a Cabinet official yesterday said.
AGRICULTURAL insurance coverage has more than doubled as of November, data from the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp. (PCIC) showed, as more farmers are said to have realized the benefits of being insured.
MORE than a month after the phenomenal damage wrought by super typhoon Yolanda, relief efforts continue for the thousands upon thousands of survivors who lost their homes and livelihoods. It goes without saying that rebuilding communities will be a long and uphill challenge, but with the generous response of local and global donors and the focused efforts of national and local government, we are assuaged that this, too, shall come to pass.
INFRASTRUCTURE spending rose by a fourth in the ten months ending October as the government continued to ramp up disbursements.
MOODY’S Investors Service, Inc. has given Asia’s power sector a stable outlook for next year, driven by supportive regulatory policies.
WE ARE NOW in the last month of the year. At this time, companies will be closing their books, managing reconciliations of their accounting records against their tax returns, conducting year-end adjustments, preparing for the year-end withholding tax obligations, completing compliance requirements for renewal with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and local government unit (LGU) registrations and planning for the 2014 income tax filing season.