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Much of the discussion about corporate governance focuses on issues relating to boards of directors, and for good reason. Boards have oversight and control functions that serve to guard the interests of the stakeholders. The significance of these roles necessarily means that companies are expected to check the list of best practices in filling up their boards.

For businesses, the start of the new year means setting new goals and targets. Likewise, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) also has its own new set of plans for 2017. This year, the BIR is tasked to collect P1.829 trillion which is equivalent to 79% of the National Government’s total projected tax revenue of P2.313 trillion. Although the target amount is lower than the last year’s collection goal which was P2.025 trillion, P1.829 trillion is still undeniably an uphill challenge.

Who would have thought that a 17-year-old girl would spark a generation of Filipino stars on Broadway and the West End? That was what Lea Salonga did when she got the role of Kim in Miss Saigon 27 years ago.

In line with the Jan. 20 deadline for the renewal of business registration with local government units (LGUs), it is necessary to know where to pay your local business taxes for 2017. At the LGU of the head office, the branch, sales office, warehouse or the factory?

WE JUST bade farewell to 2016 and joyously and simultaneously welcomed 2017. New Year’s Day is celebrated around the globe full of high hopes for a fresh start. Traditionally, New Year’s Day is the time to job down resolutions and aspirations for the year. But in this age, what we do is go online to post on social media our “New Year, new me” resolutions ranging from relational to personal to physical: everything aimed at hoping for a better version of one’s self. I was scrolling down my newsfeeds on Facebook and I found it hilarious how others post throwbacks from the previous New Year Day of their missed goals and resetting the same targets for this year. I never posted mine but I sure do have my mental list of broken promises to myself, too, from last year.

Mindanao is one of these places where this cry needs to be answered. It has more than its quota of violent news and seemingly endless chaos. It has been fighting for peace amidst people with seemingly conflicting benefits and principles. Mindanao is tagged by tourism offices of other countries as among the least suggested places to be visited. Bombings, kidnappings, and threats to lives are daily realities Mindanaoans face.