We beg to differ.
It is probably welcome news to environmental activists but a disappointing turn of events for anyone who likes the idea of tapping the Philippines’ imposing stockpile of mineral resources to attract tangible industrial investment and create jobs: Some subtle hints have recently been made by the companies behind the most promising planned mining operations that…
The rich, those who profit most from society, are also those who give back the least. Today, it seems, that nothing crystallizes this idea better than recent news that BIR Commissioner Kim Henares “exempted the country’s richest 1% from paying the newly-imposed VAT on association dues.” Here’s an excerpt from Vic Agustin’s Cocktales: An official of the Forbes…
A dark cloud has settled above the life of the People’s Champ, Manny Pacquiao. In an unexpected turn of events, the harbinger of this misfortune was the government agency the boxing icon endorsed and supported; the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). Manny Pacquiao is currently facing criminal charges for allegedly failing to submit records of…