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Trump’s ‘Buy American’ could benefit Philippines

By Rey Gamboa | April 5, 2018 - 12:00am

US President Donald Trump’s “Buy American” call to action is slowly taking shape, and how this will escalate and eventually affect relationships with China, the United States’ biggest goods...

Business

Sustained economic growth to drive more M&A, capital raising — FMIC

January 5, 2018 - 12:00am

The sustained economic growth and rosy outlook for the country will prompt more mergers and acquisition and capital raising...

Business

Payback with interest

By Jerry Tundag | April 2, 2014 - 12:00am

First off, we have two former US Coast Guard cutters that are being passed off as warships. Fine. If that is how we wish to call the primarily law-enforcement vessels that are several decades old, I am willing to...

Freeman Opinion

DND seals deal on 28 Israel-made armored infantry fighting vehicles

By Camille Diola | January 16, 2014 - 1:01pm

The Department of National Defense has signed a P882-million contract with an Israel-based firm for the purchase...

Headlines

Agricultural land acquisition: A lens on Southeast Asia

By Emily Polack | April 15, 2012 - 12:00am

Recent years have seen “land grabbing” emerge as a big issue in media across the world, with reporters quick to...

Agriculture

Record new subscribers boost Globe user base to over 30M

February 14, 2012 - 12:00am

Globe Telecom ended 2011 with over 30 million mobile phone subscribers, up 13 percent from the previous year’s 26.47 million and three percent higher than the third quarter’s 29.1 million, the company...

Business

Tech customers question industry's takeover spree

July 6, 2010 - 5:50pm

The world's largest technology companies have been on a buying spree, spending billions to snap up smaller companies. And often the buyers say they're doing it for their customers — businesses, hospitals, schools...

Market showing no sign of retreat

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | July 27, 2009 - 12:00am

The local stock market is showing no sign of retreat as global equity markets around the world, continue to advance, sparked by positive US data and corporate results.

Business

IPVG's first quarter net income down slightly to P35 million

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | May 21, 2009 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines – Listed information technology and gaming firm IPVG Corp. said gross earnings in the first quarter this year dropped 25.5 percent to P35 million even as revenues grew eight percent to...

Business

PSE asks SEC to hold public hearing on tender offer rule

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | February 6, 2006 - 12:00am

The Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to conduct a public hearing on the proposed amendments to its tender offer rule in view of the perceived implications on...

Business