Friday, 21 November 2025
6 days ago
INSIDER VIEW | Preventing corruption in PPPs
By: Alberto Agra
Public–Private Partnerships (PPPs) are meant to improve the lives of Filipinos—the very purpose of all government projects. PPPs unite public purpose and private innovation to accelerate infrastructure development and service delivery based on performance.
7 days ago
Lucio Tan-backed LTP hires nearly 1,000 even as NAIA rent surges, raising pullout doubts
By: Miguel R. Camus
Taipan Lucio Tan-backed Lufthansa Technik Philippines (LTP) is hiring workers like it plans to stay, adding nearly 1,000 employees over the past year despite facing an 11-fold jump in updated rent costs.
SMC’s Ang: Lufthansa Technik Philippines’ bid for NAIA lease relief rests with gov’t
16 Sep 2025
5:41PM
NAIA’s 25-year lease reset puts pressure on Lucio Tan-Lufthansa venture with 3,000 workers
4 Apr 2025
5:23PM
INSIDER VIEW | Lufthansa Technik faces pricey NAIA lease renewal: Justified or not?
21 Mar 2025
7:11AM
11 Nov 2025
9:46AM
INSIDER VIEW | Mining and media in the wake of a typhoon
Following Typhoon Tino's onslaught, social media again filled with posts blaming the mining industry for the growing severity of natural calamities.
10 Nov 2025
10:05AM
INSIDER VIEW | Are consumers paying twice for green energy?
I have always opposed asking consumers to shoulder for the subsidies for renewable energy (RE) generators. Today, in the Philippine renewable energy debate, a critical concern has emerged: consumers may be paying twice for the energy delivered by developers.
3 Nov 2025
2:03PM
INSIDER VIEW | Decoding availability payments for PPPs
By: Alberto Agra
To sustain any partnership, both contracting parties must contribute. There must be a genuine exchange of resources. The implementing agency and the private sector must both have “skin in the game” to gauge how invested each party is, and to exact accountability from each other.
24 Oct 2025
10:27AM
INSIDER INFO | ‘Entitled’ NAIA lessee behind anti-San Miguel smear?
By: Daxim L. Lucas
The contrived controversy over the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) public-private partnership project has taken another twist, this time with the airport’s own labor union disavowing any link to a group fanning allegations of irregularities in the deal.
20 Oct 2025
11:02AM
INSIDER VIEW | PPP of and with the People is bayanihan
By: Alberto Agra
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are often framed as contractual or financial arrangements or mechanisms that enable collaboration between the government and the private sector in the delivery of infrastructure and services.
17 Oct 2025
9:09AM
INSIDER VIEW | The truth about mining and earthquakes
Recent earthquakes across the country have once again stirred public concern over the long-feared “Big One”—a 7.2-magnitude event projected to strike along the West Valley Fault, threatening to devastate Metro Manila and nearby provinces such as Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal.
8 Oct 2025
1:04PM
INSIDER VIEW | Fast-tracking ROW to drive PPP acceleration
By: Alberto Agra
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) thrive on certainty. Investors, contractors, and financiers will not commit billions of pesos without a stable and predictable legal and institutional environment.
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