Manila is sending a mission to Washington later this month to begin preliminary talks on the US-Philippines free-trade agreement (FTA) that was discus..

The country’s economic managers appear bent on removing next year the quantitative restrictions (QR) on rice importation to comply with the comm..

President Duterte, taking cue from complaints aired by US President Donald J. Trump that Japanese-made vehicles are being assessed tariff rates consid..

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations must fast-track the conclusion of the Regional Cooperation Economic Partnership (RCEP), which could serve a..

Small businessmen could end up as the biggest winners in the ongoing regional meetings should the commitments and pledged funding support for the micr..

The Manila Conference 2017 on Regulations and Governance in the Philippines: Development Policy Challenges for the New Administration explored the reg..

Closing the gap in the infrastructure sector is crucial for the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) as they move..

The Philippines should formalize its regulatory management system (RMS) for the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry to make it more investor-f..

As leaders from more than 20 countries descend to Manila for a series of meetings, they are expected to be greeted by the red carpet, escorted on allo..

The regulatory process to effectively work entails the participation of different actors—not just government.Prof. Sharon Friel, director of the..

Two years after the ratification of the Philippine Competition Act (PCA), Filipinos still have low awareness of the importance of competition in the m..

Filipinos still lack familiarity with the importance of competition in the market, according to a Philippine Competition Commission official, who also..

South African Ambassador to the Philippines Martin Slabber and Dr. Anil Sooklal, Deputy Director-General: Asia and Middle East at the Department of In..

Regulation has to be a means to an end. This was stressed by Professor Sharon Friel of the Australian National University (ANU) at the recently h..