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                    [ArticleID] => 1352564
                    [Title] => Steel industry still awaiting revival
                    [Summary] => 

This reprint of a Gotcha column in Nov. 2001 show s how the government ruined the attempt to revive National Steel Corp.

 

 

 

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1244142 [Title] => Foreign steel makers eye Global Steel’s closed facilities [Summary] =>

Foreign steel makers have expressed interest in reviving Global Steel Philippines, Inc.’s (GSPI) closed facility or setting up a new steel plant here, a Trade official said.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1473425 [AuthorName] => Louella Desiderio [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 264108 [Title] => Local steel firms question capability of NSC [Summary] => Local steel makers doubt the capacity of the new foreign owners of National Steel Corp. (NSC) to modernize the plant and produce globally competitive steel products due to their lack of financial and technical resources.
[DatePublished] => 2004-09-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 246754 [Title] => Global Ispat Ind’l Park seeks BOI incentives [Summary] => The 40-hectare Global Ispat Industrial Park, which has been granted an economic zone status, is applying for incentives with the Board of Investments (BOI).

As an economic zone, it can avail of duty-free privileges for the importation of raw materials. On the other hand, BOI-registered companies can avail of additional duty and/or tax incentives for imported capital equipment as well as income tax holidays.
[DatePublished] => 2004-04-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097672 [AuthorName] => Ted P. Torres [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200130 [Title] => SEC pushes special court for securities fraud, disputes [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking the creation of a special commercial court that will solely act on cases involving securities fraud and intra-corporate disputes.

SEC Chairman Lilia R. Bautista said there must be a special court that will look into suspension of payments and rehabilitation cases, intra-corporate disputes, and complaints against perpetuators of pyramid or Ponzi scams, to ensure the speedy resolution of corporate cases.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804021 [AuthorName] => Zinnia B. Dela Peña [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 161151 [Title] => Steel nerves amidst pressure [Summary] => It has been two and a half years since the National Steel Corp. (NSC) had shut down its plants in Iligan City, leaving a trail of tears, deprivation and lost dreams in its wake.

How else would you describe a catastrophe that left 2,000 people out of jobs, had put about 80,000 children out of school, deprived the city of P160 million in taxes yearly, and denied the government of close to P1 billion in duties on the raw material the company imports annually?
[DatePublished] => 2002-05-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133715 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805279 [AuthorName] => Rey Gamboa [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 140387 [Title] => Restart National Steel, restart north Mindanao [Summary] => Iligan is a city practically built on steel. It began hosting in the ’60s a modest steel mill that government, from a World bank loan, transformed into huge integrated steel works to provide the girders for Southeast Asia’s growth. National Steel Corp. was born from what was once the Iligan Steel Mill in the early ’70s. At its peak National Steel posted annual business of P16 billion, and employed 4,000 workers - a third of Iligan’s total payroll. [DatePublished] => 2001-11-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 94057 [Title] => Maybe Land Bank should be privatized! [Summary] => Land Bank and Metrobank are supposedly wondering if they should put up an asset management company with some foreign banks to take care of the non performing accounts of the two local banks. At about P29 billion each, the two local banks can indeed benefit from some cleaning of their books. The problem is, Land Bank shouldn't have even been in all of those deals. Land Bank's reason for being a government bank is supposedly to help agrarian reform take root.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1254507 [AuthorName] => DEMAND AND SUPPLY [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 95666 [Title] => Maybe Land Bank should be privatized! - DEMAND AND SUPPLY [Summary] => Land Bank and Metrobank are supposedly wondering if they should put up an asset management company with some foreign banks to take care of the non performing accounts of the two local banks. At about P29 billion each, the two local banks can indeed benefit from some cleaning of their books. The problem is, Land Bank shouldn't have even been in all of those deals. Land Bank's reason for being a government bank is supposedly to help agrarian reform take root.
[DatePublished] => 2001-07-04 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 100655 [Title] => Gov't asks Spanish group to invest in National Steel [Summary] =>

Government is asking a group of Spanish investors to consider National Steel Corp. [DatePublished] => 2000-02-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096655 [AuthorName] => Des Ferriols [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) ) )

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