The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has formed a task force to inventory sugar stocks and monitor shipments of the commodity into the country amid the increased demand for refined…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has commended the Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) for extending P655 billion in loans to rural communities as of June this year, in step…
BEIJING—The Philippines has submitted to the new aid agency of the People’s Republic of China an indicative list of 12 big-ticket infrastructure projects that will undergo feasibility studies with possible…
In a report released Wednesday, Malaysia-based RAM Ratings Services Berhad (RAM) announced that it upgraded the Philippines’ global credit rating by one notch to “gBBB2(pi),” or BBB equivalent, a notch…
BEIJING—Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has welcomed a proposal by the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to explore the possibility of local currency financing and a variable spread facility in…
BEIJING—Underscoring the “strong synergy” between the economies of their countries, Philippine and Chinese officials have reaffirmed their commitment to bring bilateral relations between Manila and Beijing to a higher level…
Ben Kritz hits government for being “completely adrift when it comes to economic policy and management” and his reason is that “the estimated second quarter GDP growth xxx figure is…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said the Philippines continues to be among the best performing economies in Asia on the strength of higher foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows and rising…
BEIJING—The Philippines has invited China to take part in the country’s pledging session set in November to drum up international support for the recovery and rehabilitation program for the damaged…
The Department of Finance (DOF) has made good on its commitment to submit to the Congress the remaining packages of the Duterte administration’s comprehensive tax reform program (CTRP), whose overriding…
