Starting June, Philippine passport holders will be able to enter Taiwan visa-free, and stay up to 30 days. The island nation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the move – intended to boost tourism – will be on a trial basis for one year starting June 1, 2017 until July 31, 2018. Taiwan also extended to […]
Bank of China recently brought 95 client-companies to Cebu for an investors’ seminar that highlighted opportunities in the region, as well as the benefits of doing business in the Philippines. The bank’s country head Deng Jun said these companies – 25 are from Hong Kong and the rest from mainland China – had no business […]
One of the world’s oldest orchestra will perform the world premiere of Tsinoy composer Jeffrey Ching’s take on “Sinfonia Concertante in A Major,” an unfinished work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Slated for Sept. 22, the piece will be performed by Staatskapelle Dresden, an orchestra based in Dresden, Germany, founded in 1548. Esteemed German tenor and […]
The country lost two Tsinoy industry titans recently with the passing of Mariano Que, 96, of Mercury Drug Corp. and Ambassador Alfonso Yuchengco, 94, founding chairman of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. and Malayan Insurance. Que founded Mercury Drug Corp., through which he brought innovations to the drug retailing sector. He repackaged bulk medicine into smaller […]
The China-ASEAN Tourism Cooperation Year was launched in Manila on March 16, with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang leading over 1,000 guests at the Philippine International Convention Center. Premier Li Keqiang, in a message read by Wang, cited ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)’s “pivotal role in regional cooperation” and noted that ASEAN and China […]
The richest Filipinos listed in Forbes Magazine are not the Philippines’ top individual taxpayers. The nation’s top taxpayers are those who paid the most on their reported personal incomes, says the Bureau of Internal Revenue. The tycoons pay more income taxes overall than other taxpayers, but much of that is final withholding taxes on interest, […]
Police busted an Indian-led kidnap-for-ransom group after a group leader and three gang members were arrested. The arrests – made separately in Lupao and Rizal towns, Nueva Ecija – were made after the group took the P600,000 ransom payment from victim Indian businessman Handvinder Singh, says Director General Ronald dela Rosa, chief of the Philippine […]
Special envoy to China Ambassador Carlos Chan led a group of Filipinos to visit the Royal Tomb of the Sultan of Sulu in Dezhou City, Shandong, China on March 28. Princess Jacel Kiram (daughter of Jamalul Kiram, direct descendant of the Sultan) and her mother Celia Kiram with a delegation from Palawan led by Gov. […]
A businessman was rescued after almost four months in captivity in Camarines Sur. Five of his alleged captors were arrested and P1.2 million in ransom was recovered in police operations. Suspects Gerry Mancera, chairman of Barangay Maninila; Jefferson Cuachin, 26; Prudencio Ruiz, 59; Cesar Garcia Jr. and Joven Ortiz, 34, of Camalig, Albay were arrested. […]
China Eastern Airlines is launching its Clark-Shanghai flights soon. Clark International Airport Corp. president and chief executive Alexander Cauguiran said China Eastern officials toured the Clark International Airport facilities to finalize the plan. “China Eastern is encouraged by the marketability of Clark airport and the increasing number of its local destinations,” Janette Cordero, the airlines’ […]