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THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE on Thursday raised alarm over the US decision to increase tariffs on Philippine exports to 20%, as a high-level delegation prepares to fly to Washington next week to seek ...
FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS (FDI) in the Philippines rose 7.1% year on year in April, boosted by inflows from Japan and investments in the manufacturing sector, according to the central bank. “Net ...
THE PHILIPPINES’ top economist on Wednesday backed a proposal to tax online gambling, but said the government’s economic planning agency has yet to study a total ban.
The PPA was created to bring order and centralization to what used to be a fragmented port management system in the Philippines.
The government, through the PPA and its related agencies, is investing in port infrastructure to meet the growing demands of ...
THE Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) has announced the first four films in its lineup for this year. At the grand launch on July 8 at Glorietta Activity Center in Makati City, the film’s titles and ...
Like every other sector of the economy, digitizing port operations is crucial to helping keep transnational trading and infrastructures in pace with global modernization.
PHILIPPINE COMICS once dominated the country’s bookshelves, especially during the 1950s and 1960s — an era often dubbed the comics’ “Golden Age.” It was a time when readership soared into the millions ...
BANKS in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are struggling to maximize the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies amid rapid digitalization and the lack of expertise and appropriate ...
MARAGONDON Wind Energy Corp. (MWEC) plans to build a 200-megawatt (MW) wind power project in Cavite, with operations expected to start by 2028. “The proposed 200-MW onshore wind project aims to ...
More than 20 years ago, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) working paper defined policy ownership in these terms: “…a willing assumption of responsibilities for an agreed program of policies, by ...
RCBC TRUST Corp., the stand-alone trust and investment arm of listed Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC), saw its assets under management (AUMs) rise by 14% year on year to P186 billion as of ...