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[Title] => Financial services confab to be held in 5 key cities
[Summary] => Online platform b2bpricenow.com will hold FinServ 2.0 on Financial Services Summit on May 24 and 25 at the Philippine Trade Training Center (PTTC) in Pasay City.
[DatePublished] => 2012-05-12 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 574044
[Title] => Peaceful elections boost confidence in RP
[Summary] => Businessmen said yesterday the peaceful elections last Monday boosted investors’ confidence in the country as an attractive investment destination.
[DatePublished] => 2010-05-12 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1480108
[AuthorName] => Ma. Elisa Osorio
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[ArticleID] => 364842
[Title] => Hotel giants Hilton, Hyatt eye retirement-oriented facilities in RP
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Hotel chain giants Hilton and Hyatt have reportedly expressed interest in investing in retirement resort/hotels in the country, according to Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) chairman Edgardo B. Aglipay.
Aglipay, who recently arrived from a three-week marketing visit to the United States, announced that hotel chain giants Hilton and Hyatt are sending their representatives either in December this year or in January next year to look at facilities and properties being offered by the government for development into retirement villages.
[DatePublished] => 2006-10-24 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[Title] => PRA taps PhilExim to guarantee retirement villages, other projects for retirees
[Summary] => The Philippine Export-Import Credit Agency (PhilExim) has been tapped by the Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA) to guarantee retirement villages and other projects covered by the retirement industry.
Philexim president and chief executive officer Virgilio R. Angelo said that along with the mining sector, the retirement industry are the new priority sectors that the Arroyo Government is trying to promote and encourage.
The retirement industry, Angelo pointed, has a high multiplier effect and will provide plenty of jobs in the services sector.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-19 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[ArticleID] => 271898
[Title] => Carmakers back DTI on CBU import tariff reciprocity
[Summary] => The Philippine Automotive Federation Inc. (PAFI) supports the position of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Board of Investments (BOI) to apply the principle of full reciprocity to Malaysia with regards to its plan to fix its Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) rate for completely built-up (CBU) automobiles at 20 percent.
[DatePublished] => 2005-03-29 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
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[AuthorID] => 1097285
[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[ArticleID] => 262546
[Title] => RP to push for uniform tariff cuts with Japan
[Summary] => The Philippines will continue to push for a uniform tariff reduction program for agricultural and industrial products when it resumes its bilateral free trade talks with Japan next month.
"Hopefully, we could convince the Japanese government to agree to have a single format for the reduction of tariffs for agricultural and industrial products. That is one of the issues that we should thresh out in the next round of discussions," said an official of the Department of Agriculture (DA) who is one of the members of the Philippine panel.
[DatePublished] => 2004-08-25 00:00:00
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[AuthorID] => 1704647
[AuthorName] => Rocel Felix
[SectionName] => Business
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[ArticleID] => 229178
[Title] => Upsilon mystique
[Summary] => On Friday, November 28th, the Upsilon Sigma Phi Fraternity Alumni Association is presenting "Jazz in Time"/Commemorative Concert XII at the UP Diliman University Theater. It was the Upsilon that staged the first jazz presentation in the country dubbed "Jazz Festival" in 1955. The fraternity’s subsequent jazz festivals and concerts have become a mecca for jazz aficionados; for Upsilonians, those musical landmarks are an excuse for getting together.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-25 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134209
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[AuthorID] => 1804859
[AuthorName] => Domini M. Torrevillas
[SectionName] => Opinion
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[Title] => RP rallies poor nations on key WTO issues
[Summary] => Cancun, Mexico– The Philippines has taken the initiative to work on building a broader coalition of developing countries that could successfully push for the inclusion of key provisions in the hotly-debated agricultural policy issues at the ongoing World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting.
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-13 00:00:00
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[AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go
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[Title] => Philcemcor seeks zero tariff for bituminous coal, anthracite
[Summary] => The Philippine Cement Manufacturers Corp. (Philcemcor) is asking the Tariff Commission to reduce to zero the existing duty rate on bituminous coal and anthracite.
In a letter to Tariff Commission chairman Edgardo B. Abon, the Philcemcor requested that the tariff on bituminous coal with a heating value of more than 5,500 kilocalories (kcal) and anthracite be reduced from their existing rates of seven percent and three percent, respectively, to zero effectively next year.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-28 00:00:00
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[Title] => Pearlbank files raps vs Wincorp officials
[Summary] => Pearlbank Securities, Inc. (Pearlbank) recently filed a criminal complaint for falsification of commercial and private documents against officers of scandal-plagued Westmont Investment Corp.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-18 00:00:00
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