Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III and Jack Ma recently discussed ways on how to empower micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines through affordable electronic commerce innovations pioneered…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has directed Customs Commissioner Isidro Lapeña to spearhead the creation of interagency task forces at the regional level to unify and beef up anti-smuggling operations…
The Philippines will soon ink an agreement with Agence Française de Développement (AFD) of France for a EUR 100 million (equivalent to around USD115 million) loan to support the Local…
The Duterte administration’s “hybrid” Public-Private Partnership (PPP) program will help speed up the roll-out of the government’s big-ticket infrastructure projects under its “Build, Build, Build” program as this modified strategy…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has lauded the interagency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) for starting the “fact-finding and science-based” review of mining operations across the country for the first…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has ordered the Bureaus of Customs (BOC) and of Internal Revenue (BIR) to train their sights on the smuggling of rice and four other commodities…
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III has debunked unfounded concerns over the supposed drastic drop in the flow of foreign direct investments (FDIs) into the Philippines as he pointed to the…
Acting on the orders of the Office of the Ombudsman, the Department of Finance (DOF) has dismissed from the service for grave misconduct a municipal treasurer from Guimbal, Iloilo for…
The Philippines has surpassed the requirements in nine areas set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) on global benchmarks for good governance in the oil, gas and mineral sectors…
A majority of the members of the interagency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) decided Tuesday to recommend the lifting of the ban on open-pit mining provided that laws and regulations…
