For 27 years, the homegrown food counter that first brought to this city the mouth-watering beef tapa, sinangag (fried rice) and egg (known as tapsilog) dishes one can eat in a hurry—has grown from a five-staff affair to a source of job for over 100 people.
The World Bank said the big number of unemployed and underemployed in the Philippines was the big challenge for the Aquino administration.
A World Bank official has called the huge number of unemployment and underemployment in the Philippines as a huge challenge for the Aquino administration.
Businessman Sebastian Angliongto recalls growing up in a traditional Chinese household where only slightly being late or absent for dinner could mean missing a meal for the night.
The Southern Mindanao regional office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau said Thursday it was waiting for Nationwide Development Corp. (Nadecor) to get its act together and would not act on any of two feasibility studies submitted by rival factions within the company on the Kingking project in Pantukan, Compostela Valley.
Business leaders in Mindanao and government agriculture officials exchanged barbs on Sunday over who was to blame for the recent quarantine problems encountered by Philippine banana exports to China.
Former Senator Juan Miguel Zubiri has warned that Philippine tropical fruits being sent to China could also suffer the fate of Cavendish bananas.
President Benigno Aquino on Monday told banana exporters reeling from the stringent rules imposed on their product by China not to put all their eggs in one basket and to diversify their market.
The coffee shop that brought the coffee lifestyle to Davao more than a decade ago is now eyeing to bring Davao City to the world.
Fe Sarabello had no idea that the small business her family started 11 years ago would grow big enough to serve the demand for ceramics in two regions in Mindanao.
The Philippine government, through the Department of Agriculture, is seeking an extension of the second phase of the World Bank-funded Mindanao Rural Development Program (MRDP) after being swamped by demands for more rural development infrastructure projects from local government units in Mindanao.
Tuna industry players in Southern Mindanao are hoping for a richer catch in the year of the water dragon despite the declining worldwide tuna harvest due to changes in the climate.
