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At least 7 groups vie for 25-year deal to operate, maintain Clark airport
With the auction for the operations and maintenance of the Clark International Airport about to start, several prospective bidders question some of the requirements

Lone bidder qualifies for P84-million Baggao Water Supply Project
The public-private partnership deal is seen to benefit 24 barangays in Baggao, Cagayan

Economists upbeat about FDI prospects for 2018
While the country’s ranking as the top country to invest by media firm US News may be subjective, economists are nonetheless optimistic that last year’s strong foreign investment flows will continue this year

Chelsea Logistics submits P67-B bid to develop Davao, Bohol airports
The unsolicited proposal seeks to upgrade and maintain both airports over a 30-year concession period

Megawide, Indian partner to compete with 'super consortium' for NAIA rehab
GMR-Megawide's proposal provides a lower project cost and shorter concession period compared to that of the NAIA Consortium, formed by 7 of the country's top conglomerates

Pakistan grieves Benazir Bhutto, 10 years after assassination
Her death plunged Pakistan into political uncertainty and street violence and shocked the world.

Clark airport maintenance among PPP projects set for rollout in 2018
The PPP Center is also eyeing 5 to 8 water projects under some local government units

Building projects through ODA not in conflict with PPPs – ADB
While the Duterte administration favors official development assistance over public-private partnerships, the Asian Development Bank says PPPs 'will continue to be a way of doing business'

$60 billion a year needed to address ASEAN infrastructure gap – ADB
To fill the region's massive infrastructure gap, some businessmen recommend the public-private partnership (PPP) route

Alliance Global moves into infrastructure, proposes Skytrain
Andrew Tan's new infrastructure subsidiary Infracorp Development announces its arrival with an unsolicited bid for a monorail project that would link Guadalupe, Makati to Bonifacio Global City

Megawide's proposed East-West Railway to cost $1 billion
The railway would be an elevated 9.4-kilometer train line from Diliman, Quezon City to Lerma, Manila

PPP Center rebuilds pipeline with new focus: LGUs
The Public Private Partnership PPP Center of the Philippines promises to add more local government unit LGU projects to the pipeline

Megawide on track to hit income target despite slower revenues
Megawide s net income for the 1st half of the year slowed down to P927 million from P985 36 million in the same period a year ago

Gelar Mukernas, PPP bahas calon presiden 2019
“Konsolidasi pilkada sekaligus pemanasan mesin politik menyongsong pemilu 2019 ”

Serangan terhadap Kantor DPP PPP diduga karena konflik internal
Kantor Dewan Pimpinan Pusat DPP Partai Persatuan Pembangunan PPP diserang sekelompok orang

Major railways, national transport policy get NEDA Board approval
For majority of the approved infrastructure projects the mode of financing is changed from public private partnership PPP to official development assistance ODA

Megawide group proposes P208-billion Cebu airport expansion
This would make the Cebu airport the only Philippine airport with two independent parallel runways seen to serve annual passenger capacities of up to 50 million

Bulk of Duterte's massive infra plan to be funded via local financing
Only about P1 3 trillion or 18 will be accounted for through public private partnership projects

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5 regional airports removed from PPP pipeline
UPDATED It is back to zero for the development of 5 small airports in Bacolod Davao Iloilo Laguindingan and Bohol A prospective bidder feels embarrassed and dismayed over what has happened

Looking ahead: Gender equality, universal healthcare in ADB's priority list
Here are 5 issues the Asian Development Bank is prioritizing as it crafts its long term strategy for 2030

ADB, region push for more PPPs as Duterte gov't mulls less
The Asian Development Bank also launches Public Private Partnership initiatives in an effort to strengthen its bankability and implementation and approves 2 5B in financing support to private sector operations

DOTr keen on removing Davao airport rehab from PPP pipeline
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade says the government is considering funding the rehabilitation of the airport in President Rodrigo Duterte s hometown

IN NUMBERS: Three-year Rolling Infrastructure Plan (TRIP)
TRIP outlines over 4 000 infrastructure projects worth P3 6 trillion to be completed by 2020

Alliance Global to build transport hub near NAIA
This will connect the country s main international gateway to Newport City potentially increasing foot traffic to tycoon Andrew Tan s development

Addressing myths of PPPs
PPPs offer alternative financing solutions to the country’s massive infrastructure needs But despite the success of PPPs in the Philippines certain misconceptions continue to undermine the PPP program’s accomplishments

How much does a Big Mac cost in ASEAN countries?
Aside from being a global favorite the staple fast food item is a tool used to measure the purchasing power of a country’s currency

Big role for private firms in gov't infra push – Cabinet
The promised funds from China and Japan have led the Philippine government to call off some big PPP bids but the private sector still has a big role to play in infrastructure projects

Crazy rich ASEANs: Billionaires from the Southeast Asian region
Meet the dollar billionaires of ASEAN

Ayala Corp in the time of Duterte
The conglomerate is positioning itself to take advantage of the administration s infrastructure push

Metro Pacific pouring P153B into public infrastructure 'til 2018
The infrastructure conglomerate is set to start construction of the Cavite Laguna Expressway and Cebu Cordova Link Expressway among others in 2017

5 regional airport PPP deals attract more honchos
Companies led by Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala Lucio Tan Manuel V Pangilinan Erramon Aboitiz Ramon Ang Andrew Gotianun and Manuel Louie Ferrer are interested

Metro Pacific's French partner backs out from regional airports PPP
With Aeroports de Paris backing out Metro Pacific says it will first look for a new foreign partner then evaluate its participation in the regional airport deals

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ARRC to gov't: Bid out operations, maintenance of Clark airport, not NAIA
The consortium says privatizing the operations maintenance and upgrade of NAIA would discourage the construction of a new airport

Senators convinced 'best' location achieved for MRT-LRT common station
But the Senate committee wants someone to be held liable for the P200 million naming rights contract of SM Prime which caused the almost 8 year delay of the project

Top property, gaming firms interested in New Nayong Pilipino PPP
Among them are AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation DM Consunji Incorporated DM Wenceslao and Associates Incorporated Filinvest Development Corporation and JG Summit Holdings Incorporated

PH's PPP program could see declining investor interest – BMI Research
The research unit of Fitch Ratings flags the country s struggle with implementing projects on time and generating enough interest in proposed undertakings

Alvarez slams bidding process of 5 PPP regional airport deals
Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez says the operations and maintenance scheme to be implemented for the 5 airports may unnecessarily tie the government s hands

1st PPP rolled out under Duterte: 5 regional airports
Even if these regional airport PPP deals were unbundled they continue to lure big investors

Commercial operations for MRT-LRT Common Station eyed in April 2019
Rarely seen together the country s top businessmen come to agree on the final location of the Metro Rail Transit MRT Light Rail Transit LRT Common Station project

Mindanao Railway project approaches rollout
Another project that could be given the green light to start procurement is the Panay Guimaras Negros bridge that is estimated to cost P21 67 billion

MRT-LRT common station to be done in 2.5 years – DOTr
Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade says the signing of the compromise agreement on the common station is expected before 2016 ends

Ayala, 3 foreign airline operators team up for NAIA PPP
The people who are joining us are coming from a particular core competency and expertise that can add to the project says the president and CEO of AC Infrastructure Holdings Corporation

Ayala eyes infra proposals to help ease Metro traffic
Our mandate is look for an area where we can do something to alleviate the difficulties the pain points and the congestion says Rene Almendras chief of AC Infrastructure Holdings

Philippines shopping for 'nice' China-funded infra deals
The country s first subway a massive Northern Mindanao railway and a Tutuban Sorsogon train system are just some of the infrastructure projects the Philippine government plans to fund via official development assistance ODA from China

Duterte gov't calls off auction for South Line of North-South Railway
UPDATED Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno says the Tutuban Sorsogon railway will now be financed through official development assistance ODA from China or Japan

Auction for Nueva Ecija prison postponed for 4th time
This PPP project is part of government efforts to fix the Philippines prison system which the International Centre for Prison Studies ranks as the 4th most overcrowded in the world

SEC approves PPP listing rules
This comes after over a year of consultations among the PSE SEC PPP Center and the Asian Development Bank which started in August 2015
