EMIRATES.COMDUBAI-BASED carrier Emirates is optimistic about the Philippine travel market amid growing demand for leisure travel, a company official said.”Our presence in the Philippines is very strong,” Saeed Abdulla Miran, Emirates Philippines country manager, told reporters on Wednesday.Mr. Miran said

PHILIPPINE STAR/WALTER BOLLOZOSTHE CENTRAL BANK’S term deposit facility (TDF) fetched bids worth P290.223 billion, above the P250-billion offer and P286.038 billion in tenders a week ago.Tenders for the seven-day debt reached P177.147 billion against the P140 billion auctioned off by

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FREEPIKTHE PHILIPPINE government must grant more incentives and strengthen its digital infrastructure to support the growth of startups, analysts said.“The (startup) ecosystem needs to offer compelling benefits to would-be startup founders for them to domicile in the Philippines,” Jay Fajardo,

PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCASTHE COURT of Tax Appeals (CTA) has granted NLEX Corp., a unit of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), a P3.8-million tax refund for local business taxes erroneously paid to the City of Valenzuela for taxable years 2012 to