Top 10 startup businesses eyed by MVP
By Tonette Orejas
Can IdeaSpace jumpstart a Silicon Valley in the Philippines?
Can IdeaSpace jumpstart a Silicon Valley in the Philippines?
Fugitive housing developer Delfin Lee and four coaccused cannot leave the country on orders of the judge hearing the case of syndicated estafa against them.
A change in culture and increase in revenues are what Arthur Tugade, the man President Benigno Aquino appointed president and chief executive officer of Clark Development Corp. (CDC), is bringing into the agency that is turning this former American military base into an economic engine.
The Philippines’ shopping mall chains have virtually taken over the provinces, branching toward every urbanizing town or city to offer products that provincial customers used to buy only from Metro Manila stores.
Eat, drink coffee, play with kids, shop for clothes, try the latest gadgets, visit a book store, scout for gift items, find a dress, do the grocery, check out new carpentry tools, get a haircut or nail care.
The Clark International Airport (CIA) marked a milestone last Wednesday when it served its one millionth passenger in just 10 months.
Lands left idle here by Mt. Pinatubo’s 1991 eruptions, later buried and nourished by layers of volcanic sediments washed down by rains, have turned into fertile fields of tambo (tiger grass), supporting broom makers in Nueva Ecija.
The Philippine Veterans Bank performs its corporate social responsibility in unique and specific ways. For six years now, it has been touring the exhibit called “War of our Fathers.” It also sets aside 20 percent of its net income to the board of trustees for the veterans of World War II.
The chair of the Regional Development Council in Central Luzon described as “foolish” the conclusion made by an International Air Transportation Association official that the Clark International Airport is not fit to be the country’s next gateway.
Dragonair, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cathay Pacific Airways, began its daily flights from the Clark International Airport (CIA) in Pampanga to Hong Kong on Tuesday, with 183 passengers aboard its Airbus 320 that took off at 11:20 a.m.
In 1976, at age 14, Alfredo Lagman Jr. made as much as 160 blocks of ice a day in his father’s Alma Ice Plant in this Pampanga capital.
Madrid-based Business Initiative Directions (BID) gave the Century International Quality Era (CQE) Gold Award to meat processing company Mekeni Food Corp. during its 14th convention on March 11 in Geneva, Switzerland.
