Most Profitable Businesses Today:

1. Gambling in the form of online lottery or text games;
2. Power generation and distribution, (thanks to purchased power cost adjustment);
3. Mobile phone networks, as long as the country is hooked to "texting";
4. Beer and wine production, as always;
5. Drug manufacturing and retail, because medicines here are twice as expensive;
6. Computer training centers which promise instant jobs after graduation;
7. Kindergarten schools with exorbitant tuition fees;
8. Caregiver training centers for people wanting to go to Canada and US;
9. Immigration consultancy which offers expensive seminars;
10. Job placement agencies;
11. Pyramid selling;
12. Laundry services for American troops;
13. Importing ukay-ukay;
14. Selling pirated VCDs and softwares;
15. Kidney buy and sell;
16. Smut publishing, as in yellow journalism;
17. Billiard tables for rent;
18. Computer game shops;
19. Money exchange in Basilan; and
20. Bikini car wash as the one in Iloilo City.
21. Usurious lending in government and private offices (commonly called 5-6).
22. Gift checks trading.