No new EDCA bases—Marcos

April 16, 2024
Balikatan exercises may be expanded to include Japan President Marcos said Monday the United States would not be given access to more military bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement that allows American troops to rotate through and stor...

Gov’t won’t allow ICC to arrest Rody

April 16, 2024
President Ferdinand Marcos said he would not hand over his predecessor to the International Criminal Court (ICC) regardless of the ongoing tirades coming from former President Rodrigo Duterte. During FOCAP’s 50th Anniversary Presidential Forum, Mr. Mar...

Transport strike fails to paralyze Metro

April 16, 2024
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) reported that the first day of the two-day transport strike in the National Capital Region (NCR) had minimal impact on public transportation.  MMDA chairman Don Artes stated that no stranded pas...

Shakey’s 2023 income grows 23%

April 16, 2024

Shakey’s Pizza Asia Ventures Inc., an operator of fast casual restaurant in the Philippines, said its net income last year expanded by 23 percent to P1.08 billion from the previous year’s P874.4 million, on higher sales.

The Reading Mind

April 16, 2024

I’ve always loved reading. Novels, history books, magazines, and newspapers of course (4 newspapers are delivered to me at 8 am daily—and I love it!)  Reading has shaped the way I think and see the world in ways I cannot even fathom.

The wave is coming

April 16, 2024

Three weeks from now two events will take place. They are not connected but it is interesting. Vladimir Putin’s next presidential inauguration is set for May 7, 2024. In addition, there will be another minor peak in Wave 935 of the Economic Confidence...

CWT refund or carry-over?

April 16, 2024

For most taxpayers, the deadline for filing the Annual Income Tax Returns (AITR) was yesterday (April 15). It is at this moment that a decision to either refund or carry over the excess withholding tax credits must be made. The Supreme Court in one ca...