Our favorite chocolate bars such as Toblerone, Meiji and those made by other popular companies might not be going out of the shelves soon but with the continuing downtrend in world cacao supply, they could be priced too high that we won’t afford them anymore.
To the President: Make agriculture and tourism the priority sectors for infrastructure support and development to create more jobs.
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.
Giant mall operator SM Prime Holdings is so bullish about Mindanao consumers, whom it considers power buyers, that it plans to build five more malls on the island within the next four years.
Cacao farmers in Mindanao are being urged to increase production as rising demand for the commodity is expected to cause a worldwide shortage of about a million metric tons by the year 2020, according to the head of a local producers’ group here.
Convergys, reputedly the world’s largest call center company, is set to put up two call centers in the city.
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.
Iran, which is on the list of nations sanctioned by the United Nations’ Security Council, is among the new markets that the Department of Agriculture (DA) has targeted for Philippine bananas, Agriculture Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacop said here on Thursday.
Bayan Muna Representative Teddy Casiño said Thursday he will ask the House next week to initiate an inquiry on what he said were “fake claims” of the Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corp. (PSALM) that it suffered up to P15 billion in losses from the operation of the Mindanao hydropower plants.
Globe Telecom aims to become Asia’s most modern mobile telecommunications provider despite the stiff competition provided by Smart Communications, which just completed a merger with Sun Cellular.
Regional airline Silkair plans to increase the frequency of its flights between Davao and Singapore on expectations of a significant growth in traffic.
