04.30.07
A senior executive of the Trump Organization flew in from New York last week and met with Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano over the prospects of building and managing an ultra-luxe hotel-office-residential complex in The Fort.
A senior executive of the Trump Organization flew in from New York last week and met with Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano over the prospects of building and managing an ultra-luxe hotel-office-residential complex in The Fort.
A senior executive of the Trump Organization flew in from New York last week and met with Tourism Secretary Joseph Durano over the prospects of building and managing an ultra-luxe hotel-office-residential complex in The Fort.
Inquirer grapples with succession issue
April 30, 2007
THE Philippine Daily Inquirer held its annual stockholders’ meeting Thursday and reelected Alexandra Prieto-Romualdez president, amid rumors that she and her family are casting for someone to run the day-to-day operations of the privately-held, family-controlled newspaper empire.
 
The rumors even gained currency when Romualdez, for the second year in a row, listed in her annual report “productivity and succession planning” among the seven critical factors that she said the newspaper group has to address amid the tough circulation-and advertising climate.
Casino shows thunder
April, 30 2007
Despite local regulatory difficulties, the Philippine operations of Thunderbird Resorts have so far been showing the most promise of all the Third World investments of the California-based gaming group.
According to Thunderbird’s just-released financial report, the twin casino hotels in Binangonan and Poro Point posted $20.2 million revenues in 2006, compared with the $24.2 million reported by group leader Panama with its six casinos.
Thunderbird also operates in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Read the rest of this entry »
04.27.07
Local money remittance companies terribly upset by Western Union’s slashing the domestic remittance fee to only P1 per transaction are readying a predatory pricing complaint before the proper government authorities.
It is not clear if the putative complaint would ever prosper, since Western Union has obtained prior clearance from the Department of Trade and Industry to run the current promo for a month and a half up to May 31.
Local money remittance companies terribly upset by Western Union’s slashing the domestic remittance fee to only P1 per transaction are readying a predatory pricing complaint before the proper government authorities.
It is not clear if the putative complaint would ever prosper, since Western Union has obtained prior clearance from the Department of Trade and Industry to run the current promo for a month and a half up to May 31.
Local money remittance companies terribly upset by Western Union’s slashing the domestic remittance fee to only P1 per transaction are readying a predatory pricing complaint before the proper government authorities.
It is not clear if the putative complaint would ever prosper, since Western Union has obtained prior clearance from the Department of Trade and Industry to run the current promo for a month and a half up to May 31.
Leviste’s new glow
April 27, 2007
JOSE Antonio Leviste seems to have snapped out of his post-killing emotional trough, judging from a happy outburst the detained husband of senatoriable Loren Legarda exhibited in a chance encounter the other afternoon with a columnist with whom he has an unfinished feud.
“By golly! Are you here as a spectator, or as a defendant?” the former Batangas governor erupted, as he was being led by police escorts back to the Makati courtroom. Read the rest of this entry »
Heart on the left, pocket on the right
April 27, 2007
“Red” (his own description) activist and lawyer Argee Guevarra has confirmed that he had stopped writing for the Businessworld, the capitalist daily that strangely is peppered with leftwing columnists. Read the rest of this entry »
