Metro Pacific Investments Corp. is approaching the government’s proposed capacity expansion, operations, and maintenance public-private partnership for Metro Rail Transit Line 3 with measured financial caution.
Manila Water Co. is looking beyond its current water sources as rising demand and climate risks push the East Zone concession toward a more diversified and resilient supply portfolio.
Australian healthcare provider Kairos Care/Kairos Medical Group is exploring the Philippines as a base for export-oriented IT-BPO operations that would support its Australian healthcare business, adding to growing interest in the country as a destination for knowledge-intensive services.
Small food businesses are getting a practical boost as Solane and the Philippine Association of Sari-Sari Store and Carinderia Owners (PASCO) roll out a nationwide program designed to cut operating costs, improve kitchen safety, and make micro enterprises more resilient.
As digital banking, e-wallets, and embedded finance transform financial access across the Philippines, Globe Business is equipping banks and financial firms with advanced, proactive security tools to meet requirements under the newly enacted Anti-Financial Account Scamming Act (AFASA), or Republic Act No. 12010.
COREnergy, the energy retail subsidiary of listed firm Vivant Corp., has secured a contract to supply 0.6 megawatts of electricity to JEG Tower in Cebu City, marking a key expansion of its commercial client base and advancing its parent group’s broader energy investment and growth targets.
Only 21 out of 548 electricity pilferage cases recorded since 2022 have resulted in convictions, data presented at the Senate Committee on Energy hearing on August 18 showed, revealing severe enforcement gaps under Republic Act 7832 or the Anti-Electricity and Electric Transmission Lines/Materials Pilferage Act of 1994.
Agricultural losses from the enhanced monsoon and storms Luis, Maymay, and TD Neneng rose to P1.73B, the DA said in its Aug. 20, 7 a.m. advisory — up from P1.42B on Aug. 17 before Neneng’s effects were tallied.
Robinsons Retail Holdings Inc. (RRHI), part of the Gokongwei Group, is set to end its tenure as a publicly listed company at the end of August, after the Philippine Stock Exchange approved its petition for voluntary delisting.