NEWS & ARTICLES

This month of September we are celebrating two of our most important natural assets or capital—our marine biodiversity resulting from our being a MAN (Maritime and Archipelagic Nation that hosts the center of the center of marine biodiversity in the world) and our bamboo of...

The world has gone green. TESLA and even Porsche has electric cars. Yet, in a country like ours, GREEN power is not getting enough push. Did you know it would take 200 permits to get a solar plant started? Now that’s real red tape. We...

An outstanding feature of the Revised Corporation Code of the Philippines (RCCP) is the formal institution within its corporate governance (CG) framework of “corporation whose business is vested with public interests.” Section 22 of the RCCP provides that the Board of Directors of the “following...

More than a year in the pandemic, a lot of businesses are still struggling due to the imposition of community quarantines. In fact, around 10 percent of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have closed as of June amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the...

THE COMMUTE How many of your workers now commute using bicycles? Since we experienced MECQ, ECQ, GCQ and all kinds of lockdowns and limited public transportation, it has been a focus of many companies to look for solutions to employee mobility. Even SMEs, like ours,...

Our economy has been brought to its knees by COVID-19 since March 2020. It contracted last year by 9.6%. The country’s GDP shrank by 4.2% in the first quarter this year. 2Q results may turn out better, but with the Delta variant surging the world...

If we were still of that age, where droves of students write up their CVs and send out resumes, we would be very worried. One, where do you apply for work? In my younger days, schools would send your names to prospective employers (like hotels...

Recommendation 13.3 of the Corporate Governance (CG) Code for Publicly-Listed-Companies (PLCs) provides that “The Board should encourage active shareholder participation by making the result of the votes taken during the most recent Annual or Special Shareholders’ Meeting publicly available the next working day. In addition,...

Principle 13 of the Corporate Governance (CG) Code for Publicly-Listed-Companies (PLCs) provides that “The company should treat all shareholders fairly and equitably, and also recognize, protect and facilitate the exercise of their rights.” There are five (5) Recommendations under Principle 13, namely: (a) RECOMMENDATION 13.1:...