Europe-PH News
Groups say order to decongest ports in Manila "unrealistic"
August 31, 2014
Industry Groups are apprehensive over an order instructing importers and brokers to withdraw their overstaying Customs- cleared containers in Manila ports by Sept. 8. Read More
Business groups welcome second quarter results
August 28, 2014
Business groups on Thursday welcomed the faster-than- expected economic growth in the second quarter amid the truck ban and port congestion in Manila, and other issues like questions about the stability of power supply and prices. Read More
Gaining from the AEC
August 27, 2014
IT is important to get ready for the Asean Economic Community (AEC), which is scheduled to start on January 1, 2016. Read More
ECCP bats for simpler investment registration process
August 26, 2014
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is pushing for the rationalization of the registration process for foreign investments, noting that bottlenecks in such procedures dampen the country's business climate. Read More
Aquino pressed to ensure reforms stay
August 26, 2014
With less than two years left to the end of his term, President Benigno S. C. Aquino III should ensure more reforms survive political transition in 2016 by making them laws, business leaders and analysts said yesterday. Read More
ECCP seeks to scrap WESM price caps
August 26, 2014
The European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) has been proposing a more drastic measure of totally scrapping the price caps for the country's Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM) as it labeled such to be of "manipulative nature" to a free market. Read More
The power gap
August 26, 2014
The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) produces a daily "Power Situation Outlook". Read More
"Block auction" for add'l Malampaya gas and PNOC's "banked gas"
August 19, 2014
A "block auction" or "joint tender" of the banked gas held by the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and the anticipated additional 200-megawatt gas supply from the Malampaya field by 2016 was proposed by the European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) to Energy Secretary Carlos Jericho L. Petilla. Read More
More investments in Mindanao urged
August 19, 2014
With the passage of Bangsamoro Basic Law creating an autonomous region in Mindanao a step closer, foreign chambers of commerce in the Philippines urged the government and private firms to speed up investments in the area for immediate development to take place. Read More
I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
August 19, 2014
Back in college, I had a very big crush on this feisty, petite and wide-eyed girl with a brilliant mind. Everyone looked up to her. She was constantly on top of the dean's list and could have probably graduated from college half asleep. Read More
PEZA expands energy audit coverage
August 19, 2014
The Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) is expanding the coverage of a program involving energy audit and reduction in energy consumption to include information technology - business process outsourcing (IT-BPO) firms amid the country's power supply problem. Read More
Napocor to purchase generation sets
August 19, 2014
The National Power Corp. (Napocor) plans to acquire diesel-fed facilities to provide additional power supply for Marinduque consumers. Read More
