The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

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It is such a great joy whenever we find the perfect pair of eyeglasses, because it is sometimes a struggle to search for a pair that would match not only the shape of our face, but also our personality. 

Sambo Kojin is making its customers’ dining experience even more delightful by adding more delectable items to its already extensive menu, allowing them to indulge more in the best of Japanese and Korean barbecues that the restaurant is known for. 

Burmese-born jewelry designer Wynn Wynn Ong is celebrating 15 years in fashion and design with a retrospective exhibition, titled Wynn Wynn Ong: Redefining Boundaries, which opened at the Yuchengco Museum in Makati City last Thursday. 

The government has realized huge returns for every centavo it spent on the foreign trips of President Duterte last year, according to computa­tions by the Department of Finance (DOF).

The Philippines has among the most developed private-public -partnership (PPP) programs for the Asia-Pacific region, if not the world, an Asian De­velopment Bank (ADB) report said.

By Riza Lozada The fiscal balance for 2016 reflected the ramped-up spending of the Duterte administration in its effort to catch up with the huge underspending during the previous administration that limited the economy’s growth potential.

Trade groups cannot seem to stress enough to the government the need to start right away the construction of sev­eral international airports to replace the ageing Ninoy Aquino International Air­port (Naia) as they aired dire warnings that the current congestion at the sole in­ternational airport in Manila was a grave threat to tourism and trade.

Public support is high on the tax-reform proposals of the De­partment of Finance (DOF) pend­ing before Congress, as shown by the outcome of roadshows that trade groups held recently in a tie-up with the government.

A non-government coalition advocating tax and fiscal reforms has expressed its full support for the proposed ad­justments in automobile excise taxes as a way to help raise revenues that would fund the improvements in the country’s mass transport system. Jo-Ann Diosana of the Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has told lawmakers that the proposed increases in the automobile excise tax …