PHILIPPINE INFLATION likely eased for a second straight month to a three-month low in June as lower oil and rice prices offset higher electricity rates, analysts said.

THE Department of Transportation (DoTr) said civil works for the last two stations of the Metro Rail Transit Line 7 (MRT-7) will start next year. “Civil works for the Tala Station and San Jose del ...

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 ...

ALMOST 7 out of 10 Filipino employees place stability and work-life balance at the forefront when choosing where to work, urging employers to offer flexible working options such as working from home, ...

THE Anti-Red Tape Authority (ARTA) said data centers will play a crucial role in supporting improvements to government services as well as the growth of the digital economy. “We recognize that our ...

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 ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it is seeking price-based special safeguard (SSG) measures on additional imported agricultural products, including frozen bovine meat, chicken cuts, coffee ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. appointed Franz Josef George E. Alvarez as acting president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC), the Palace said on Wednesday ...

SM SUPERMALLS is earmarking more than P150 billion in capital expenditure (capex) to fund major redevelopments and build new lifestyle malls over the next five years, its president said. “We’re going ...

THE human rights situation in the Philippines remains defined by a deeply entrenched culture of impunity and the continued occurrence of unlawful killings under the administration of President ...

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 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 ...