Friday, 28 November 2025
2 days ago
Business groups back reforms to ease tax audits and boost fairness
Two of the country’s largest business organizations expressed strong support for the Department of Finance and the Bureau of Internal Revenue following the suspension of all field audits and related enforcement actions under Revenue Memorandum Circular RMC 107-2025.
3 days ago
INSIDER VIEW | Choosing the right PPP framework
By: Alberto Agra
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Philippines continue to expand as the government and the private sector explore more sustainable and innovative models for development.
14 Nov 2025
10:52AM
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.
13 Nov 2025
9:50AM
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.
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