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 country’s largest mining project has finally gotten the green light from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) but under stiff conditions, an official said on Tuesday.
To the President: Make agriculture and tourism the priority sectors for infrastructure support and development to create more jobs.
President Aquino said sustaining the economic growth achieved in 2012 would be among the serious challenges his administration would face in the next three years.
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.
Diversified conglomerate San Miguel Corporation will reopen the Nonoc nickel mine with a new US$2.5 billion refinery, in a deal that is only awaiting the approval of President Aquino.
Central Mindanao is the country’s second-top revenue generator as of the end of October, the regional office of the Bureau of Internal Revenue reported here Monday as it claimed to have surpassed its collection target thus far this year.
From the streets of Pagadian City to the golf course of Ozamiz City, the “economic typhoon” that was Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc. is still the talk of the town as people are still baffled by the riches the company had brought to some and the misery it had inflicted on many others in northwestern Mindanao.
Retired school supervisor Cristituto Potayre of Pagadian City had hoped to triple his hard-earned retirement pay after 30 days when he invested in a scheme ran by Pasay-based Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc.
The Department of Agriculture said the outlook for Philippine bananas remains rosy despite the current row with China over its more stringent standards and the ban on exports to Iran, primarily because of the expansion of the markets in at least five countries, including two in Europe.
About 1,000 islanders on Monday demonstrated outside the regional office of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Surigao City, voicing anger over what they claimed were bureaucratic red tape and anomalies that affect their mining jobs.
