With less than two years left to the end of his term, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III should ensure more reforms survive political transition in 2016 by making them laws, business leaders and analysts said yesterday.
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has been proposing a more drastic measure of totally scrapping the price caps for the country's Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) as it labeled such to be of "manipulative nature" to a free market.
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) produces a daily "Power Situation Outlook".
A "block auction" or "joint tender" of the banked gas held by the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and the anticipated additional 200-megawatt gas supply from the Malampaya field by 2016 was proposed by the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla.
With the passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law creating an autonomous region in Mindanao a step closer, foreign chambers of commerce in the Philippines urged the government and private firms to speed up investments in the area for immediate development to take place.
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The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is expanding the coverage of a program involving energy audit and reduction in energy consumption to include information technology - business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms amid the country's power supply problem.
The National Power Corp. (Napocor) plans to acquire diesel-fed facilities to provide additional power supply for Marinduque consumers.
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Criminality may have been a constant concern of tourists and investors in the country for quite some time, but perceived frequency of incidents has prompted one foreign embassy to raise the issue publicly with the government.
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has thrown full support behind Japanese investor's VAT refund claims against the Philippine government.
The Government will undertake several measures to ease traffic and decongest ports in Metro Manila, Communications Secretary Herminio B. Coloma, Jr. said.
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