The Philippines moved up a notch to 48th in the latest global talent ranking where the country was shown scoring the worst performance in most subfactors related to investments and development in the education sector. Now on its 7th edition, the annual Talent Ranking Report 2020 by the Institute...
The country’s top corporations have shown that they have been walking the talk even before signing the Covenant for Shared Prosperity wherein they have sacrificed profitability in order to take care of their stakeholders and ensure sustainability....
Why financial preparedness is vital to preparing for the inevitable Remember those days when during unplanned family reunions because of a sudden death in the family, that death itself would be the main topic? Think how many times when family members would identify and make count of those...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is pursuing steps to untangle the legal issues tying down idle mining assets held by the government in an effort to speed up their privatization and revive their operations. ...
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), about 4,958 metric tons, or nearly 5 million kilograms of meat was produced in 2016, with pork in the lead. This translates as to how much pork Filipinos consume, almost on the daily, and how high the demand is for the commodity. ...
Most Filipino dishes such as adobo, sinigang, and menudo have pork as a key ingredient in them. This shows how Filipinos love consuming the protein and gives aspiring pig raisers a glimpse of how large the demand is for the meat. A webinar broadcasted by the Agricultural Training Institute in...
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao Venturing into pig farming can be a profitable business due to the high demand of pork in the market. Yet it requires the right know-how along with the necessities in terms of housing, food, and such to make the operation work. In the previous article ,...
Federico “Piki” R. Lopez Federico “Piki” R. Lopez, chairman and CEO of the Lopez Group’s First Philippine Holdings Corporation, is the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) Management Man of the Year 2020. The “MAP Management Man of the Year” is a prestigious award that...
Former beauty queen Mariel de Leon's dream to have her face on a billboard has been fulfilled. Mariel, who represented the Philippines at the 2017 Miss International beauty pageant, shared on social media recently that her photo made it to one of the billboards at Times Square in New York. "My...
Proceeds from the sale of National Power Corporation (NPC) assets have already reached P915 billion as of end-March this year but revenue collections only hit P612.41 billion, according to the Department of Energy. Collections of asset-seller Power...
State-run Power Sector Assets and Liabilities Management Corporation (PSALM) is scheduling the sale of five more real estate assets via an auction on September 30 this year. The properties due for divestments are located in...
The Procurement Service of the Department of Budget and Management (PS-DBM) denied the government lost P1 billion from the purchase of personal protective equipment (PPEs) from a number of foreign suppliers. In a statement, PS-DBM said yesterday that the government did not lose a single centavo...
