PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — THE Department of Education yesterday clarified that enrollment remains in June for school year 2009-2010, and not in January. The DepED, however, said all incoming first year high…
Verzosa stops cops’ foreign trips
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — PHILIPPINE National Police chief, Director General Jesus A. Verzosa yesterday ordered the suspension of all foreign travels of police personnel pending a review of existing policies on travels…
22 inmates pardoned
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — TWENTY-TWO more inmates earned their pre-Christmas gifts as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo granted them their executive clemency. The luckier one is Rodolfo Caddarao who was granted absolute pardon and…
SC affirms tax refund for Lucio
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — IT’S final. The Supreme Court has ordered the government to refund the Fortune Tobacco Corporation of business tycoon Lucio Tan more than P1 billion in overpaid excise taxes…
Green (Hope) to the World
by Teodorico T. Haresco, Jr. Businessworld The financial crisis in America and Britain, whose Central Banks, avoided recession for two decades, but allowed unchecked consumer debt growth. Their lax standards allowed housing…
The Economics of Hemlines and Cleavages
by Teodorico T. Haresco, Jr. Businessworld Entreprenomists always look for informal measures to validate business trends, like lunches with industry experts, mentors, and the Internet. In 1926, an economist named George Taylor…
Globalization: A Wicked Problem
by Teodorico T. Haresco, Jr. Businessworld Entreprenomists are naturally driven by risk-taking and creating, necessarily questioning the whys of current economic thunderstorms of increasing levels of imported inflation. They inevitably ask: ‘does…
Tyger! Tyger! Burning Bright
by Teodorico T. Haresco, Jr. Businessworld William Blake’s poem, “The Tyger,” describes the fierce creature of “fearful symmetry” and purposeful energy. It is the ideal symbol of the entrepreneur, territorial, protective, and…
SC reigns supreme
SC reigns supreme The brewing imbroglio over whether or not the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain that would, in effect, create a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity as a state within a state…
Senate ratifies controversial trade treaty with Japan
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — VOTING 16-4, the Senate ratified late Wednesday night the controversial Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement which is seen to further improve trade relations between the two countries. Sen. Miriam…
GSIS investments up 5 percent
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — EVEN in the face of the worst financial meltdown in the history of the United States, the global investment program of the Government Service Insurance System, which started…
‘Force oil firms to cut prices’
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — MALACANANG was urged yesterday to compel oil companies to bring down the cost of their gasoline and diesel products by P5 more per liter after the National Economic…
Batasan bombing witness disappears
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — IKRAM Indama, the alleged Abu Sayyaf member-turned state witness in the November 2007 deadly Batasan Pambansa bombing, broke out of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group headquarters yesterday….
Almost but not enough for Paragua
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Almost but not enough for GM Mark Paragua of the Philippines. Paragua topped the preliminary round of the men’s blitz tournament but finished empty-handed in the four-team semifinal…
Meralco’s P3-M donation passed on to consumers
PHILIPPINE NEWS SERVICE — Is Meralco’s reported P3-million donation to the UP College of Engineering connected in any way to its awarding Meralco president Jesus Francisco as its “Most Outstanding Alumnus” for…