PHILIPPINE INFLATION likely eased for a second straight month to a three-month low in June as lower oil and rice prices ...

The passage of Republic Act No. 12234, or the Konektadong Pinoy Act (KPA), together with its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), marks a significant shift in how the Philippines approaches ...

The Philippine jobless rate rose to 4.7% in April from a year earlier, while underemployment climbed to a nearly three-year high of 15.2%, signaling continued weakness in the labor market. Data from ...

By Subramanyam Sreenivasaiah DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION in the Philippines has already moved from adoption to optimization. Yet, beneath this progress, shadow AI or the use of unauthorized tools to manage ...

FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS in the Philippines are falling behind their counterparts in some Southeast Asian countries in reading, writing and mathematics, with a significant percentage of students still ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it reached agreement with the pork industry to set a minimum farmgate price of P210 per kilogram for hogs on a liveweight basis. The floor price is designed to ...

Historically celebrated for its remarkable beauty and biodiversity, the Philippines’ archipelagic geography has emerged as a critical economic challenge. Today, logistics costs consume an alarming ...

STEADY INFLOWS from remittances and the services sector despite emerging external pressures helped narrow the Philippines’ balance of payments (BoP) gap to a three-month low in April, Bangko Sentral ...

Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompatible with the ...

MERALCO POWERGEN CORP. (MGen), the power generation arm of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), is set to develop a 49-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Toledo, Cebu, which is expected ...

THE Philippine fish catch is declining by an average of 45,000 metric tons (MT) each year due to overfishing, illegal fishing, and weak enforcement of fisheries law, according to Oceana Philippines.

The Philippines placed 146th out of 171 countries in the Global Food Security Index Q2 2022 developed by consultancy agency Deep Knowledge Analytics. The index was constructed from 40 food security ...