Casinos, resorts remain strong despite setbacks
THE COMMUNITY, business, and social services sector’s growth experienced a tempered uptick in 2016.
The sector’s gross value added (GVA) — a measure of the...
Philippines’ infrastructure challenge: A huge gap or a black hole?
BY IAN NICOLAS P. CIGARAL
WHEN President Rodrigo R. Duterte won the race to Malacañang last year, he didn’t just promise to wipe out the...
Cash-rich banks don’t view ODA as competition for funding projects
BY MELISSA LUZ T. LOPEZ
THE DUTERTE GOVERNMENT’S P8-trillion infrastructure spending plan was what local lenders were waiting for.
When it was announced in April, it...
Gov’t strengthening connectivity as telecoms search for a third player
BY KRISTA ANGELA M. MONTEALEGRE
CONSUMERS have long been clamoring for a third player to break the duopoly in the telecommunications market plagued by poor...
Mindanao train on front and center after languishing in the back burner
BY MARIFI S. JARA AND CARMELITO Q. FRANCISCO
IT’S AN OLD IDEA — a Mindanao railway — dating as far back as the late 1930s after...
LBC bets on experience, heritage as industry undergoes consolidation
BY KRISTA ANGELA M. MONTEALEGRE
AS THE BATTLE for consumers shifts online, Philippine conglomerates are marching into unchartered territory by taking over logistics companies to...
New NHMFC bonds in the offing for investors, housing developers
ESTABLISHED in 1977 by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1267, the National Home Mortgage Finance Corp. (NHMFC) performs the crucial task of linking the...
With or without a railway system, Western Visayas ready to steam ahead
BY LOUINE HOPE U. CONSERVA
BUSINESS LEADERS in Western Visayas remain hopeful of one day seeing a railway system chug through the region’s mainland, Panay.
Understanding...
Alternative to Metro Manila offers new chance at urban redemption
BY ARRA B. FRANCIA
METRO MANILA traffic continues to spawn Internet memes and has been the stuff of everyone’s rage, humor, and urban angst.
This can...
New regulations prevent gov’t execs from writing their own checks
by ELIJAH JOSEPH C. TUBAYAN
When former President Benigno S. C. Aquino III got elected in June 2010, he vowed to get rid of corruption...
SGV still supreme as it continues to be the most sought-after auditing firm
By CHRISTINE JOYCE S. CASTAÑEDA
Sycip Gorres Velayo & Co. (SGV) continues to be the most sought-after auditing firm by the country’s biggest corporations in...
Q&A: More than an Auditing Firm
What follows are excerpts of the interview with the top three firms’ executives.
How does your firm keep its edge?
SGV Chair and Managing Partner J....