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                    [ArticleID] => 1386172
                    [Title] => Students, teachers trained on making bags from water hyacinth
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Fifty high school students and teachers here have just been trained on production of bags from dried water hyacinth stalks under a program meant to encourage entrepreneurship among local sectors.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-30 15:34:26 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804871 [AuthorName] => John Unson [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1240941 [Title] => New tax rules seen detrimental to small-scale entrepreneurs [Summary] =>

As the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) toughens up on establishments operating as tiangges or privilege stores, local business leaders believed that these marginalized enterprises need to be given consideration when paying income taxes and that BIR should instead focus on increasing their collections in other areas.

[DatePublished] => 2013-10-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1342554 [AuthorName] => Grace Melanie L. Lacamiento [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 900688 [Title] => Mimaropa workers to get wage increase [Summary] =>

Private sector workers in Region 4-B or Mimaropa (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan) will get an increase in their daily take-home pay starting the end of this month.

[DatePublished] => 2013-01-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1430092 [AuthorName] => Juancho Mahusay [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 801766 [Title] => MSMEs lament struggle against large firms [Summary] =>

Representing a unique kind of people power in the economic sector, micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) express sentiments over the discrimination against large companies and corporations in the country despite their significant contributions to the society.

[DatePublished] => 2012-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Business [SectionUrl] => cebu-business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 301511 [Title] => Business sets 13-pt agenda for GMA [Summary] => The 31st Philippine Business Conference (PBC) ends today with the business sector presenting a 13-point action agenda for President Arroyo to implement.

President Arroyo, who will address PBC’s closing plenary session, is expected to reassure the business community that all is well in the country despite the current political problems besetting her administration.

This year’s action agenda differs from previous conferences wherein the business sector gave much broader resolutions.
[DatePublished] => 2005-10-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097285 [AuthorName] => Marianne V. Go [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 283805 [Title] => Central Luzon workers to get 2 wage hikes [Summary] => CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) in Central Luzon clarified yesterday that minimum wage earners in the region are supposed to receive starting this month two wage increases amounting to P35 daily.

In an interview with The Star, DOLE Regional Director Ernesto Bihis said that the P35 increase would cover the P20 cost of living allowance (COLA) integrated into basic salaries effective last June 16 and the P15 COLA also integrated into the basic pay effective last June 19.
[DatePublished] => 2005-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 197304 [Title] => Banks lending to SMEs to get generous perks [Summary] => The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will issue a circular implementing the provisions of the baranggay micro business enterprises law, giving banks that lend to small enterprises generous incentives.

BSP Deputy Governor Alberto Reyes said the law was one of the most significant pieces of legislation to emerge from Congress, giving banks unprecedented incentives to entice them to lend to businesses with assets of up to P3 million.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 185894 [Title] => Barangay micro enterprises get P300-M subsidy [Summary] => A new law has set aside an initial P300 million to subsidize barangay micro business enterprises (BMBEs).

Negros Oriental Rep. Herminio Teves said the P300-million BMBE Development Fund shall be put up with a mandatory endowment from the state-run Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp.

Teves is one of the principal authors of the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act, which President Arroyo signed into law recently.
[DatePublished] => 2002-11-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181405 [Title] => Barangay biz law OKd [Summary] => The two chambers of Congress approved Wednesday night the Barangay Micro Business Enterprises Act of 2002 which is expected to spur economic activity in the countryside.

Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said yesterday the measure is one of the flagship economic bills designed to sustain the modest growth of the country’s economy.

"This bill will encourage entrepreneurship among our people and could generate employment at the barangay level through the creation of small businesses with institutional support from government," he said.
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