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Location of the Philippines. The Philippines is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It is a founding member of the United Nations, World Trade Organization, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, and the East Asia Summit.
In the Philippines, a government-owned and controlled corporation ( GOCC ), sometimes with an "and/or", [ 1] is a state-owned enterprise that conducts both commercial and non-commercial activity. Examples of the latter would be the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), a social security system for government employees.
Philippine Aerospace Development Corporation. Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation. Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office. Philippine Children's Medical Center. Philippine Coconut Authority. Philippine Economic Zone Authority. Philippine Guarantee Corporation. Philippine Health Insurance Corporation. Philippine Heart Center.
The first iteration of the LTFRB was established on November 17, 1902, through the passing of Act No. 520. [1] The commission is in charge of classifying vessels, merchandise, and passengers in with reference to transportation under the coastwise trade, and fixing the maximum rates to be imposed on the vessels and merchandise of different classes, and people that are being moved from one point ...
The Philippine Islands Telephone and Telegraph Company is American-owned which started operations in 1905 in the present-day Metro Manila. In 1928, merged with Cebu, Panay, and Negros Telephone and Telegraph companies to form the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). In 1932, the colonial Philippine congress granted PLDT a 50-year ...
This is a non-exhaustive world-wide list of government-owned companies. The paragraph that follows was paraphrased from a 1996 GAO report which investigated only the 20th-century American experience. The GAO report did not consider the potential use in the international forum of SOEs as extensions of a nation's foreign policy utensils.
Benguet Auto Line – a bus company under Philippine National Railways, with a train connection plies from Rosario, La Union to Baguio via Kennon Road. It was founded in 1906 as the mail carrier of the Bureau of Posts. At its height it was operating 150 buses plus 50 freight trucks. Busway Philippines Inc. (later renamed to Pamana Transport)
This is a complete list of electric utilities in the Philippines. ... List of companies of the Philippines; ... a non-profit organization.