Growers level up, eye Middle East market for Davao pummelos

DAVAO CITY — The Davao Pummelo growers are positioning the region’s pummelo to foreign markets particularly the Middle East. Andrew Tan, president of the Davao Pummelo...

Jollibee eyes Malaysian, Indonesian expansion

MANILA – As part of its continuing expansion efforts, Jollibee Foods Corporation is now eying to the possibility of venturing into Malaysian as well as re-entering...

ATM scams, to be investigated by House committee

MANILA, Philippines – The House of Representatives committee on banks, chaired by Sonny Collantes, is set to probe reported scams on automated teller machines (ATM). A...

Large scale comm’l farming seen to address poverty

MANILA – Investors in the agriculture sector believes that large-scale commercial farming of various industrial crops and technology adaptation can be a powerful poverty alleviation key...

PIDS urges gov’t to expand manufacturing industry

MANILA – Through the implementation of reforms that will facilitate the labor-extensive manufacturing expansion, the Philippine Institute Development Studies said, it might be possible for the...

NPL ratio of thrift banks improves

MANILA — The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas yesterday reported that an improvement on non-performing loans (NPL) of thrift banks is seen as it went down to...

AsPac should rein in rapid credit growth – Fitch

MANILA — A debt watcher in a report that Asia-Pacific policymakers should focus rapid growth in credit and ensuring that no asset bubbles will arise in...

Nurses unite against Kaiser; Pinoys join in

OAKLAND, California – A correspondent for the North American Bureau of ABS-CBN news reported that several Filipinos were among the approximately 300 nurses and union representatives...

Threats to PH’s credit standing, pinpointed by Fitch Ratings

Official survey shows China manufacturing at highest in 27 months after mini stimulus measures

HONG KONG—Chinese manufacturing rose to the highest level in more than two years in July in the latest sign that the world’s No. 2 economy is...