Business Columns

Credit to Author: Ben Kritz| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 17:09:45 +0000

IT is perhaps yet another example of the privatization of public utilities going off the rails: While two private-sector combatants fight for control of electricity distribution in a battle that has now reached the Supreme Court, consumers and businesses in Iloilo at the mercy of a local grid apparently so decrepit that it routinely catches […]

Credit to Author: Rey Elbo| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:57:23 +0000

A fellow social media management activist from the human resources field is complaining of the continuing, pernicious lack of nurses in the healthcare industry. Jay (not his real name) was venting his frustration on Facebook: “When will this government step in to regulate the registered nurses’ (RNs) brain-drain? Practically all hospitals are experiencing lack of […]

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 16:54:22 +0000

SOMEONE could think that talking about “love” within organizations sounds a little strange. But there is a question that lies behind this consideration: what are organizations? There is a debate between academics and practitioners on the single definition of “organization.” However, we know for sure that people constitute organizations, and this is the reason why […]

Credit to Author: ROBERT SIY| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:14:12 +0000

From time to time, we hear assurances that a new road, expressway or bridge will reduce traffic in our metropolis. Yes, perhaps for a brief period. But, before long, the new or expanded roadway will be flooded with cars. This is because there is a lot of suppressed travel demand within our cities. If travel […]

Credit to Author: LEE-ANN TOBIAS| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:13:23 +0000

Filipinos generally have it easy when it comes to their credit history as the Philippines does not measure each banked individual’s credit scores. Though we are mandated to pay our credit bills within a specific period, we’re not rated based on our payment behavior. In effect, Filipinos are generally less conscious about their payment schedule. […]

Credit to Author: Ben Kritz| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:24:25 +0000

ONE of the selling points of nuclear power, according to those who favor it, is that in spite of its fearsome reputation, it is actually quite safe. More people have died as a result of the use of other forms of energy production than from the use of nuclear power, they say, and they have […]

Credit to Author: EUNEY MARIE MATA-PEREZ| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 16:21:46 +0000

The world is getting smaller. Cross-border and digital transactions are becoming an integral part of business and everyday life. Thus, a global approach to taxing digital transactions is essential; otherwise, the risk of different countries promulgating their own rules leading to double taxation is very high. There are also calls for the use of taxation […]

Credit to Author: Emeterio SD. Perez| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:23:39 +0000

The website of the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) listed 627,346,015 outstanding common shares of Ayala Corp. (AC) of which 627,098,147 are listed. The same showed 631,151,659 issued AC common shares. Like other companies, which have their issued common and preferred shares also listed that makes them tradable, AC, which the Zobels own through Mermac Inc., […]

Credit to Author: ANTON NG | Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:20:56 +0000

My wife will be traveling once again. Upon seeing her possible return flight schedules, an interesting, but uninspiring dilemma surfaced: would she take an earlier flight, but will be forced to face Friday night traffic from the airport to our house; or leave a day later to avoid the Friday congestion, but will not be […]

Credit to Author: Ben Kritz| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 16:12:07 +0000

EVER since the Russian government, through its atomic energy agency Rosatom, first made its pitch to sell nuclear technology to the Philippines back in 2016, the Department of Energy (DoE) under Secretary Alfonso Cusi has gone to great lengths to try to convince a largely indifferent public that nuclear power is the magical key to […]