TransUnion Philippines has launched a one-stop credit scoring solution to ensure Filipino adults get improved scores and facilitate approvals of their credits. Dubbed CreditVision Link, the solution provides lenders with an enhanced ability to provide credit to millions of potentially valid...
The country’s diving industry is now ready to welcome foreign visitors as more than 95 percent of workers in accredited dive establishments already received their vaccines against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced Friday, Nov. 26. A diver swims past a...
An anti-dumping case against Vietnam cement is being pushed to further protect the domestic cement manufacturing industry from cheap imports being dumped into the country. MB file This was revealed by CEMEX Holdings Philippines President & CEO Ignacio Mijares at the Pacific Alliance and the...
The Philippines has been urged to reduce power cost for manufacturing projects to drive more investments in the country as the economy is largely skewed in favor of the overgrown services sector, a former chief economist of the government urged. During the virtual Pilipinas Conference 2021” Dr....
The Board of Investments (BOI) has approved the registration of Chinese-owned Sinoma Energy Conservation (Cebu) Waste Heat Recovery Co. Inc. as a new operator of a 4.5 megawatt (MW) power generating plant that will supply energy to a cement manufacturing plant in Cebu and consumers in the province....
Senator Win Gatchalian on Friday, Nov. 19 made a renewed call for the inclusion of additional security measures involving telecommunication companies to ensure consumer protection in light of a recent scam utilizing sim cards. Senate Committee on Energy Chairman Sherwin T. Gatchalian Gatchalian,...
The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) is pushing for policies that would gradually restrict the exportation of raw minerals to pave the way for more mineral processing and value-adding in the country's mining sector. During the MGB Stakeholders Forum on Thursday, Juancho Pablo Galvez, chief of MGB...
The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (PCIEERD) of the Department of Science and Technology has unveiled 348 science and technology (S&T)-related initiatives that will help the country recover from the impacts of coronavirus disease...
Senator Risa Hontiveros has filed a measure seeking to declare the first Monday of August as National Lineworker Appreciation Day. Hontiveros, in filing Senate Bill No. 2451, said it is necessary to recognize and reward the country’s lineworkers for their valuable contribution to the...
Scale up your business with TFG Starting a business in the midst of a pandemic can be quite terrifying. Venturing into the Food and Beverages industry, building a brand and developing a customer base can be difficult, especially now due to the impact and forecasted aftermath of Covid-19. But...
EDITORS DESK Ramon Bonilla There could be an abundance of reasons why Metro Manila’s switch to lighter restrictions that is embedded on Alert Level 2 opens a trove of excitement for sports fans, not to mention the influx of opportunities it could bring to the table for an industry that seemed to...
The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest and most influential business organization, has joined the call of other business groups for deeper investigation and ensure transparency in the sale of Malampaya shares. pcci “Malampaya involves a lot of questions...
