DAVAO CITY – The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines in Mindanao (AmCham Mindanao) vowed to uphold the longstanding friendship between Filipinos and Americans during the 78th Philippine-American Friendship Day celebration here on Thursday, July 4. THE American Chamber of Commerce of...
It will be a tightrope walk for sponsors of new power projects, as three new major stumbling blocks are assessed as deterring factor to capital flow for much-needed electric capacity additions in the country. From the lens of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AmCham), Energy...
Filipino and foreign business organizations in the country are urging policy makers, particularly the Senate, to adopt a more comprehensive approach to addressing economic inequality instead of focusing solely on legislated wage increases, moves that businesses have always strongly opposed. ...
DAVAO CITY – Presidential Assistant for Eastern Mindanao Leo Tereso Magno urged the American Chamber of Commerce Philippines Inc.-Mindanao (AmCham Mindanao) Chapter to collaborate as a government ally to enhance Mindanao and the Philippines. MAGNO (fourth from left) with AmCham Mindanao officials...
John Forbes, a passionate advocate for the Philippines, senior adviser of the Arangkada Philippines Project of the American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (AmCham) and chairman of its legislative committee, passed away on Sept. 2, 2023. He was 80. John Forbes A statement from...
Big business groups including the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) of the Philippines and investor firms inside Clark and Subic freeports are urging the government to suspend and review the implementation of new rules of the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez seized the opportunity Wednesday afternoon, June 21, to highlight the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) before members of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Philippines (AmCham). This, as the proposed...
Retrofitting existing gas-fired power plants to hydrogen, which is also a business model eyed by several energy firms in the Philippines for their mid-century net zero targets, could take five to seven years, according to an expert from a Japanese global engineering firm. Takakazu Morimoto,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) is seriously weighing the possibility of marrying offshore wind with hydrogen in the coupling of technology innovation that shall be cast in the updated Philippine Energy Plan (PEP), the blueprint of the country’s energy future that will be released this year....
The proposed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) mega free trade deal gets the full backing of local and foreign business chambers in the country. Sergio Ortiz-Luis, president of the Employers Confederation of the Philippines or ECOP, said the Senate ratification of the RCEP is an...
American investors joined the clamor calling for the lifting of foreign ownership limit in the renewable energy (RE) sector to be a priority policy to be pursued by the Marcos administration to attract more offshore capital flow, primarily for solar and wind farm projects in the country. American...
Some 28 business and professional organizations in the country have expressed strong support as they called to uphold the independence of the Commission on Audit, which has uncovered “deficiencies” in its audit on the way government funds were being appropriated by government agencies. “We,...
