The unwieldy and ugly one is government issue. (That's the one that stays with the government office, whoever heads it.)
The other cellphone usually the latest, most expensive model is a personal one.
Taxing a "vice" product is, of course, not expected to raise as much howl as taxing text messaging and more profitable.
Well, construction will push through after all with a supermarket on the ground floor and a department store on the second floor not by Uniwide founder Jimmy Gaw or his son-in-law and current National Food Authority administrator Arthur Yap).
The way Tommy Syquia sees it, SEC-imposed penalties have proven ineffective. Some companies prefer to pay the fines that file their annual financial statements of condition.
The way some companies see it, Mr. Syquia has better things to do than force non-listed companies to publicly reveal information that should only be known to its stockholders.
Uhm, Mr. Syquia is starting with the small rather than the big companies.
Its probably coincidental that Dina Lomongo-Paterno, the wife of bank president Simon Paterno, is hosting a lunch at their home for women columnists on the same day.
While his padrino has no problems with that, the board of the mother company has balked at the idea. From the boards point of view, concentrating that much power reduces transparency.