By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Senior Reporter THE National Government’s (NG) outstanding debt rose to a fresh record high of P18.49 trillion as of end-March, driven partly by the peso’s depreciation, ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON/DUBAI — The US and Iran stuck to opposing stances on Thursday over Tehran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait of Hormuz, although US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had ...

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 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 ...

S&P GLOBAL RATINGS revised the Philippines’ credit outlook to “stable” from “positive,” citing risks to the country’s external and fiscal position from surging energy prices due to the Middle East ...

THE Department of Energy (DoE) said the supply-demand balance situation on the Visayas grid could hit “critical” levels next year, resulting in a number of yellow alerts. “There’s potential critical ...

ANALYSTS and economic managers are now finding it harder to precisely measure data in their inflation forecasts as rising uncertainty and the faster-than-usual transmission of oil price shocks ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Monday inaugurated a segment of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX), which will cut travel time along the stretch to five from 30 minutes as the government ...

PharmaServ Express recently launched a unique consumer app that brings medicines directly to Filipino homes with just a tap on the smart phone.

YUCHENGCO-LED PetroGreen Energy Corp. (PGEC) is preparing to start commercial operations of its 13.2-megawatt (MW) Nabas-2 wind power project in Aklan after securing approval to connect the facility ...

MANILA – The Philippines said on Friday it aimed to add three more processing plants in the effort to develop a downstream industry for its abundant nickel resources, after nations such as China and ...