AS OF TODAY, there are only 48 days to go before Christmas. For businesses operating on a calendar year basis, the coming yuletide also creates anticipation for yearend reporting requirements.
Nov 062013
BusinessWorld Online: Economy
Nov 052013
SEMICONDUCTORS and Electronics Industries of the Philippines, Inc. (SEIPI) yesterday asked the Department of Energy (DoE) to not charge higher power rates this month with the scheduled maintenance of the Malampaya gas field.
Nov 052013
THE DEPARTMENT of Transportation and Communications (DoTC) will present to President Benigno S.C. Aquino III today the options to prepare the country’s gateway airports for an expected passenger increase up to 2040.
Nov 052013
TACLOBAN CITY — The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Eastern Visayas (BFAR-8) has completed P27.71-million projects under the bottom-up budgeting approach this year.
Nov 042013
GOVERNMENT debt servicing declined by almost 35% in September due to a drop in principal payments made in the month, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed.
Nov 042013
THE DEPARTMENT of Transportation and Communications has released a fourth version of the concessionaire agreement for the P17.5-billion Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) rehabilitation public-private partnership (PPP) project, according to a special bid bulletin on the DoTC Web site yesterday.
Nov 042013
A FEW DAYS ago, many of us herded to the cemeteries to commemorate and pray for our departed loved ones. Being in front of a tombstone makes one think that, indeed, death is an unavoidable event. This makes me recall a cliché, that actually, it is not only death that is unavoidable; but there are actually two inescapable things in this world — first is death, and the other one is taxes. And no less than Benjamin Franklin himself said, in one of his familiar quotes, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Nov 032013
A CHINESE trade delegation is scheduled to visit the Philippines early next year to explore business opportunities, the Trade department chief said last week.
Nov 032013
IN OUR Financial Regulatory Reform series published between April and June this year, we discussed the rapidly-evolving regulatory landscape and the three strategic themes that pose challenges for the financial sector, supervisors and policy-makers. These are:
Nov 032013
STATE borrowings dropped by more than half in September due to a decline in both external and domestic debt, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed.