Government and Taxes

First of all, I am not comfortable that there are too many government positions, officials and bureaucrats. Which means we taxpayers especia...

The Pfizer-Wyeth merger, ie, the former bought the latter at $68 billion tag, is seen by some groups as "moving towards oligopoly"...

Last week, the Medicines Transparency Alliance (MeTA) held a one-week activity in Manila. Last Monday and Tuesday was a workshop for local c...

I congratulate my friends, Parth Shah of Center for Civil Society (CCS, India), Feng Xingyuan, Liu Junning, Mao Shoulong of Cathay Institute...

The cold weather the past two months induced by a cold front has caused various illnesses to many people including this writer who was knoc...

The list was released by BusinessWorld last November 25, 2008. The Top 30 and their gross revenues in Billion Pesos were as follows: Rank; C...

I wrote this last April 3, 2008: IMF socialism In a news report today in Manila Times, the headline news in its Business section is "IM...

I wrote this last May 26, 2008: Competition vs. Regulation There's a strong and noisy move on the part of the government -- from mal...