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Singapore fund invests in MPIC

By Neil Jerome C. Morales | May 18, 2014 - 12:00am

Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, has expanded its exposure in the Philippines with a P3.7-billion investment in the healthcare sector.

Business

We’re all choking to death

February 12, 2013 - 12:00am

This weekend a significant number of people in Metro Manila had difficulty breathing, feeling a thick blanket of smog hanging in the air. Many have noticed the worsening air pollution levels in the past few weeks...

Business

The gentleness of Islamic fashion

By Pepper Teehankee | April 17, 2012 - 12:00am

With Manila as the curtain raiser to this year’s series, the Embassy of Malaysia once again showed the beauty and gentleness of Islamic fashion as it presented the Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF) 2012 collection...

Newsmakers

MPIC ups income target to P5 billion as 9-month earnings rise 34%

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | November 10, 2011 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the local flagship of Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd., has revised upward its core income target to P5 billion, driven by the robust performance across...

Business

MPIC to acquire 57% of Asian Hospital

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | November 9, 2011 - 12:00am

Infrastructure conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) has signed a deal to take over Asian Hospital Inc., a 219-bed high-end medical institution located at the Filinvest Corporate City in Muntinlupa...

Business

MPIC earmarks P350 million for upgrade of Lourdes Hospital

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | October 27, 2010 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) has forged an agreement to manage and operate Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, budgeting at least P350 million in capital expenditures for the facilities upgrade of the Sta. Mesa-based...

Business

Metro Pacific eyes another hospital, sees P1-billion income from healthcare

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | June 10, 2010 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the local flagship of Hong Kong-based conglomerate First Pacific Co. Ltd., is looking to clinch another deal that will allow it to expand its healthcare service portfolio to...

Business

MPIC buys 51% of Bacolod's largest hospital

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | May 5, 2010 - 12:00am

Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC), the local flagship of Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., is taking over Riverside Medical Center Inc. (RMCI), the largest hospital in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental,...

Business

Major investment company acquires principal stake in Visayas' largest hospital

May 4, 2010 - 11:31pm

Metro Pacific Investments Corp., the local unit of Hong Kong-based First Pacific Co. Ltd., has acquired a majority stake in the largest hospital in the central region of Visayas in line with its goal to own the biggest...