25 June 2010 – Today, the Philippines formally becomes the 70th contracting party to the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs Procedures, also known as the Revised Kyoto Convention (RKC), as the Philippine delegation to the Annual World Customs Organization Council Session in Brussels, Belgium, is scheduled to transmit the country’s Instrument […]
Updates
27 May 2010 – While we are aware that the members of the House of Representatives are currently preoccupied with the critical task of canvassing the votes cast for the presidential and vice presidential positions in the May 10 elections, we would like to bring to the attention of our congressmen and the public the […]
11 May 2010 – The Makati Business Club congratulates the Filipino people for a successful election! The Comelec deserves our people’s thanks for managing an electoral process that the people believe to be credible. Despite the many delays in meeting their schedule resulting in having to make compromises on the security of the automated election […]
4 May 2010 – The reports about the failure of Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines to perform adequately in tests in several cities in Metro Manila confirm our worst fears, now egregiously manifested in local contests. The Comelec proposes that a random manual audit (RMA) can detect machine failure as well as fraud. But […]
5 May 2010 – We, the Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines, Makati Business Club, Management Association of the Philippines, and Philippine Bar Association, are vehemently against any proposal to postpone elections scheduled on May 10, 2010. While proponents of postponement may argue that more time is needed to correct minor errors, we do not […]