Governance News
[OPINION] The Cha-cha train
2 August, 2018 at 12:00
Former chief justice Hilario Davide, Neda Director General Ernesto Pernia and prominent economist Bernardo Villegas have all expressed strong reservations about our nation’s march toward federalism.
Ecozone stakeholders worried TRAIN 2 will drive...
1 August, 2018 at 17:17
Stakeholders representing various economic zone constituencies said they are worried about the impact of the government’s plan to reform corporate incentives on foreign direct investment (FDI).
[OPINION] Time for change
1 August, 2018 at 15:00
We are all aware the President will address Congress at the opening of its regular session every fourth Monday of July as mandated by the Constitution.
Liberalization tops wish list of businessmen for...
1 August, 2018 at 13:00
The country’s trade chief and top business groups want the new House leadership to prioritize the passage of measures that will open up the economy to foreign participation.
Facilitating FDI by improving the Philippine investment...
1 August, 2018 at 11:18
Every two years, the business community, especially the foreign investors, looks forward to the release of the Philippine foreign investment negative list (FINL).
House committee studies Package 2 of TRAIN...
31 July, 2018 at 16:00
The House committee on ways and means on Tuesday immediately buckled down to work a day after the Third Regular Session of the 17th Congress formally began.
Negative List awaits PRRD’s signature
31 July, 2018 at 11:43
President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s long-delayed foreign investments negative list is now ready for the Chief Executive’s signature, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said.
Metro Pacific gets original proponent status for...
31 July, 2018 at 08:00
Infrastructure giant Metro Pacific Investments Corp. took a big step forward on its offer to build a 50.4-kilometer toll road that will significantly cut travel time between Manila, Tagaytay and Batangas.
TRAIN 2 stalls in Senate despite Duterte...
30 July, 2018 at 17:00
Although President Rodrigo Duterte had certified as “urgent” the second package of the tax reform law in his State of the Nation Address (Sona), the Senate is uncertain if it would soon pass another potentially…
Duterte to issue EO soon banning open-pit...
30 July, 2018 at 15:00
Malacañang on Thursday said President Duterte would ban open-pit mining soon through an executive order.
Teves: Time to amend restrictive economic provisions...
30 July, 2018 at 13:00
Former Finance Secretary Gary B. Teves views the current exercise of amending the 1987 Constitution to a federal form of government as an opportunity to amend the restrictive economic provisions in the Charter.
Statement of Senator Juan Miguel F. Zubiri...
26 July, 2018 at 13:11
I would like to correct and clarify the impression that the Senate will not pass the TRAIN 2 measure in our chamber. That is not for me to decide alone.
State of the Nation Address of Rodrigo...
24 July, 2018 at 14:13
Delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City, 23 July 2018
China’s Global Building Spree Runs Into Trouble...
24 July, 2018 at 12:00
Pakistan’s first metro, the Orange Line, was meant to be an early triumph in China’s quest to supplant U.S. influence here and redraw the world’s geopolitical map.
