Category: Philippine infrastructure

• What you need to know about the CALAx project drama

  

  Round One’s winning bid was P11.66 billion. Round Two’s is P27.3 billion. The difference is stark: P15.6 billion. Yet, the company that triggered a rebid, San Miguel, lost.

  Lala Rimando

  26 May 2015

  Business and economy, Philippine infrastructure

  Ayala, bidding, CALAx, Cavite, Cavite-Laguna Expressway, Cavitex, Expressway, infrastructure, Manuel Pangilinan, MPIC, MVP, NLEX, PPP, Public works, public-private partnership, Ramon Ang, San Miguel, SLEX, tollroads

• Money or integrity? The Cavite-Laguna road project case study

  

  The controversial CALAx road project is a damn-if-you-do-damn-if-you-don’t issue. It’s a toss up, really, between money and integrity. The president chose money.

  Lala Rimando

  22 Oct 2014

  Business and economy, Philippine infrastructure

  Aboitiz, Aboitiz Land, Arbitration, Ayala, Ayala Corp, Ayala Corporation, bidding, CALAx, Cavite, Cavite-Laguna Expressway, Department of Public Works and Highways, DPWH, Expressway, Focap, Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines, Fraport, infrastructure, LRT 1 Cavite Extension, NAIA, NAIA 3, NAIA Terminal 3, Philippine infrastructure, philippines, Piatco, PPP, PPP bidding, President Aquino, President Benigno Aquino, roads, San Miguel, San Miguel Corporation

• Questions and an answer on San Miguel’s LRT-1 move

  

  The biggest business group in the Philippines snubbed the bidding for the biggest infrastructure project of the government. Why is this raising eyebrows?

  Lala Rimando

  29 May 2014

  Aviation, Business and economy, Philippine infrastructure

  Cavite, infrastructure, Light Rail Transit, LRT 1 Cavite Extension, LRT-1, PPP, public-private partnership, rail, Ramon Ang, San Miguel, San Miguel Corporation