The Philippines is headed toward raising its hybrid rice propagation target to 800,000 to as much as one million hectares from the present 600,000 hectares as government aims to offset demand from a rapidly expanding population and eliminate imports that still reaches to one million hectares in 2004
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Malacañang plans to ask the lawmakers to amend the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) in order for the national government to absorb more than double the limit of National Power Corporation (Napocor) liabilities’ allowed under the law.
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Malacañang has issued Executive Order No. 316 granting a temporary duty-free import status on certain items as the country’s compensation to Singapore for a decision to delay the country’s scheduled tariff reduction on 11 petrochemical products.
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Four financial sector agencies, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Insurance Commission (IC) and the Philippine Deposit Insurance Corporation (PDIC), have signed a Memorandum of Agreement paving way for the establishment of a Financial Sector Foru
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The peso closed lower at P55.98 to the US dollar yesterday at the Philippine Dealing System of the Bankers Association of the Philippines from P55.88 last Friday. The weighted average rate depreciated to P55.936 from P55.817. Total volume amounted to $180.28 million.
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The National Power Corp. shifts into high gear its plans to bid out several coal-rich sites in Cebu through the Power Sector Liabilities and Assets Management Corp. this year.
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TOKYO, Japan — The Philippine government is seeking a particular provision on energy cooperation and partnership in the free trade agreement (FTA) that has been set for full-blast bilateral negotiations with the Japanese government within the year, according to Nobuhiko Sasaki, director for FTA Nego
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The Generics Association of the Philippines, a group composed of different pharmaceutical companies in the country, mulls of putting up a science park in the Subic Bay Freeport zone.
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Let me first make a distinction when I talk of SMEs (small and medium-sized entterprises). In this article I would like to zero in on small filipino family corporations. They are defined as small to medium size closed family controlled corporations whose shares of stocks are distributed among member
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SAO PAULO, June 14 (AFP) — World Trade Organization chief Supachai Panitchpakdi urged developing countries and representatives from industrialized states to reach agreement on the divisive topic of agricultural subsidies and tariffs Sunday as he attended a UN development summit here.
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Since it opened its first warehouse in the Philippines in 2001, PriceSmart, one of the largest American membership-warehouse shopping clubs in the world, has continuously offered the Filipino consumer superior buying power.
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Reader’s Digest recently hosted an evening affair to recognize some of this year’s SuperBrands winners based on the results of the Reader’s Digest SuperBrands 2004 Survey, a consumer survey in its 6th consecutive year.
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