Asia Business Channel, an independent production house specializing in exclusive country profiles, will be airing its second investment documentary, entitled, “The Philippines: Back to a Bright Future,” on Channel News Asia this Wednesday, May 22 at 8:30 p.m.. The program is a follow up to the success of, “The Philippines Moves Forward,” which aired in December of last year on Channel News Asia.
Vehicular traffic around Bonifacio Global City in Taguig—particularly around SM Aura—has been particularly heavy in recent days since the opening of the country’s newest shopping mall. Apart from the sudden surge of shoppers that usually accompanied the opening of any SM mall, the situation seems to have been aggravated by the availability of only [...]
Malacañang credited President Benigno Aquino III’s “straight path” for Standard & Poor’s upgrade of the country’s sovereign borrower standing to investment grade.
Chinese-Filipino businessmen are still smarting from President Aquino’s allegations that some of its members have been evading taxes.
One of the very first directives that President Benigno Aquino III issued to revenue-generating agencies when he assumed office in 2010 was for them to stamp out tax evasion and smuggling.
The Philippines has taken off and recovered from the “fall” of the aviation industry, President Aquino claimed Wednesday, citing the International Civil Aviation Organization’s recent lifting of the “significant safety concerns” tag on the country.
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Sen. Loren Legarda on Saturday attributed the decision of Fitch Ratings to award the country with its first-ever investment grade rating of BBB- from BB+ on the reform-oriented and transparent governance of President Benigno Aquino III.
“It’s an early Easter for the market,” said a fund manager after Fitch Ratings raised the Philippine credit rating to investment grade on Wednesday, a move expected to boost investments and lift the country’s long-term growth potential.
The head of the 207-member Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII) has vowed to strongly support not only the government’s tax collection campaign but also President Aquino’s “Daang Matuwid” crusade.
President Benigno Aquino III has appointed Jose Alfonso Poblete president and chief executive officer of the United Coconut Planters Bank-Coconut Industry Investment Fund Oil Mills Groups A and B, Malacañang announced on Sunday.
All of a sudden, from out of nowhere, just as the Aquino (Part II) administration struggles with the territorial dispute with China in the West Philippine Sea, another sovereignty issue over Sabah confronts our leader Benigno Simeon (aka BS), that is sagging the country’s image before foreign media.
Hounded by criticism that economic growth has not resulted in jobs, President Aquino said on Tuesday that jobs have always been available, but that job applicants have not been able to provide the skills required for employment.
