There’s an email doing the rounds lately, purportedly from the Electronic Payments Association. The subject is “ACH Transfer canceled” (ACH stands for Automated Clearing House). Click here to read full post at the Pinoy-Business.com main.

The importance of entrepreneurs and small businesses is recognized in the Philippines. As previously noted, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) had admitted that “it is widely accepted that small and medium enterprises play a very important and significant role in the economic and social development of a country”.

The public debt problem in Europe, particularly Greece, is giving jitters all over the world. Investors are wary as violence spread in various parts of the world, including Libya. No matter the problems in the world, financial or otherwise, it seems many Filipinos would still have a happy Christmas.

It’s [almost] official, Puerto Princesa Underground River is among the New 7 Wonders of Nature. After making it to the list of Top 10 worst countries to do business, it’s nice to hear a good news like this.

The Philippines made it into another list, this one not to be proud about. CNBC released a list of the World’s 10 Worst Countries for Business and, unfortunately, the Philippines is 4th in the list. [See full list and discussion at Pinoy-Business.com main.] If there’s anything good that could come out from being included in [...]

JG Summit is the only Philippine company in the 2011 50 best publicly traded companies in Asia-Pacific of the Forbes magazine. JG Summit’s business includes Cebu Pacific, as well as real estate, hotels, petrochemicals and banking.

(Note: Found below is the full text of the State of the Nation Address delivered by His Excellency Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on 25 July 2011 [English translation]. Criticisms have been flying left and right even before [...]

An “upscale, casual and quiet” restaurant in the United States has decided to ban kids below 6 years old because their “endless screams at public dinner tables are “the height of being impolite and selfish,” a Yahoo! article notes.

There’s an article in Yahoo Finance about the five things that shopping malls are not telling us. It says malls encourage us to eat and that malls now resembles an amusement park. We know these things, and we Filipinos seem to accept these “hidden” strategies. It also says that malls are a dying breed.

Pabahay, bigas, seguridad, pasahod, kalsada, pantawid pasada, at salbabida para sa mga kababayan nating nilulunod ng kahirapan: iyan po ang pagbabagong inaani natin ngayon. Alam naman po ninyo, hindi naman po natin nahukay ang kayamanan ni Yamashita para maipatupad ang mga ito. Hinabol lang po natin ang mga tiwali sa gobyerno, itinama natin ang pag-gugol [...]