The government is preparing the terms of reference for the plan to bid out to the private sector the operations of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, the main gateway to the Philippines.
The Philippines has chronically underspent for public infrastructures like roads and railways for decades and the hope is for state spending to ramp up under incumbent President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., experts told the Manila-based Asian Development (ADB).
It will be a year of controversy. Under-the-table deals and other hanky-panky will be revealed. Partners (personal, business, political, etc.) will be biting each other in the back. Secrets will be exposed. Syphoning off of funds will be uncovered. State witnesses will abound, not just in the Philippines, but worldwide.
From January 23 to 27 the economic managers will again engage business leaders, bankers and investors from Frankfurt, Germany ,and London, United Kingdom, which are known as centers of trade and finance.
The policy making Monetary Board (MB) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) on Friday allowed the maximum interest on credit card transactions to rise a full percentage point to 3 percent a month from only 2 percent.
For households navigating compact condos, apartments, or family homes, finding appliances that fit limited spaces without sacrificing capacity, performance, or convenience has long been a common challenge.
Globe is strengthening its online safety safeguards and blocking hundreds of websites that promote or depict extreme violence — including content related to school shootings — as part of broader efforts to protect children and young people from harmful digital material.
Living to 110 is already an extraordinary feat. Doing it with an immune system apparently stocked with an unusually large squad of cancer-killing cells makes the achievement even more intriguing.