GLOBE Telecom, Inc. and the Mislatel consortium, the group selected to step in as the telecommunications industry’s “third player,” said they are now in discussions to share tower assets to reduce the cost and duration of the infrastructure buildout.

THE government broke ground Monday on the runway extension project at the Vigan Airport in Ilocos Sur, which is aimed at increasing the types of aircraft that can use it beyond its current general-aviation market.

BRACING for life after Brexit, British hospitals badly need more nurses like Filipino Jobie Escalona, but she twice flunked a mandatory English language test that asked her to write up the merits of immigration and computer education in school.

THE Cagayan Economic Zone Authority (CEZA) will start building this month a corporate and commercial center as a well as launch rehabilitation works in Port Irene.

SANTIAGO -- Global copper producers are converging in Chile this week as tightening supply buoys prices, even as the industry grapples with declining ore quality, project delays and worries the US-China trade war may hit long-term demand.

A SURVEY of Swedish businesses in the Philippines has revealed that most of them are here for the long term and plan to expand accordingly, the Swedish government said.

Summer is here! As the school break starts, everyone is excited to plan where to spend their holidays. But before gearing up for the vacation, corporate taxpayers adopting calendar taxable year and individual taxpayers can’t think of enjoying summer yet until the April 15 annual income tax return (ITR) deadline passes.

THE Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) expects to meet before Easter with the proponents of a project to tap Wawa Dam in Rizal to help clear legal hurdles for the potential water source.

THE feasibility study for the Quezon-Bicol Expressway (QBEx) is now expected to be submitted in the third quarter to the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

THE Department of Labor and Employment will soon sign an agreement with Thailand for the deployment of English teachers.

THE Court of Tax Appeals (CTA) canceled the P218.9-million tax deficiency assessed on Standard Insurance Co., Inc. for 2001, ruling that the maximum allowed period for collecting the tax has lapsed.

THE Philippines is now preferred to Vietnam as an area of potential expansion by Australian businesses, according to a recent survey by the Australia-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Chamber of Commerce.