MVP to put up coal-fired plant in Cebu
By Doris C. BongcacBusiness tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan is planning to venture into power generation in the Visayas and Mindanao.
Business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan is planning to venture into power generation in the Visayas and Mindanao.
A top businessman on Wednesday called on Malacañang to include the private sector in mapping out fresh antipoverty programs as lawmakers blamed income inequality for chronic poverty amid robust economic growth.
It looks like tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan has patched things up with Ateneo de Manila University barely two months after their celebrated breakup.
In September 2012, businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan ended his long-term relationship with his alma mater, Ateneo de Manila University, due to differences on key issues.
Recent stories and opinion pieces, including in this newspaper, have speculated on the relationship between businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan and the Philippine Daily Inquirer. We wish to state for the record that:
(Here’s the full transcript of Manuel V. Pangilinan’s letter, which was posted online by Denis Lucindo, Philex vice president for business development)
President Benigno Aquino III on Friday inspected the flooded plains of four provinces in Central Luzon, revisiting decades-old plans to build a multipurpose dam after observing that 25 percent of the villages in Tarlac, his home province, was flooded because of this week’s torrential monsoon rains.
There is something in everyone that drives them to succeed despite the odds. Our dream interviewee was propelled by his ambition and nationalism to improve his country’s economy.
Cebu can make great strides as an “international hub” for travel and tourism if it can privatize the Mactan international airport and “market” itself as a hub to easily reach other tourist attractions in Boracay, Bohol and Palawan.
The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) continues to serve 100 years on. Sunday night, therefore, it is celebrating its centennial by toasting 100 of its most distinguished graduates in a ceremony dubbed “Gabi ng Parangal” and hosted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
BEIJING—Underlining the trade and investment slant of his state visit to China, President Benigno Aquino III arrived here with a 270-strong business delegation, including the Philippines’ top industry leaders. It is the biggest business contingent of Mr. Aquino’s foreign trips. John Gokongwei, Jr., founder and chair emeritus of JG Summit Holdings, Lucio Tan, founder and [...]
The government has called Manuel V. Pangilinan’s bluff, saying it was unlikely that a decision on the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company’s acquisition of Sun Cellular would be issued this month. The Aquino administration will decide on the merger of PLDT and Digitel at its own pace and will not be pressured by the “self-imposed’’ [...]
