HIGHER FOOD PRICES during the holiday season lifted inflation to 1.8% in December, although the full-year average eased to 1.7% — the slowest in nearly a decade, the Philippine Statistics Authority ...

THE government is ramping up infrastructure projects in Zamboanga Peninsula to ease logistics bottlenecks and spur regional growth, the Department of Economy, Planning and Development (DEPDev) said.

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Philippine seafaring industry is currently facing an inconvenient truth: its market share in the global market is shrinking. Between 2000 and 2025, there has been a 1.74% decrease in the overall ...

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, ...

TAN-LED Megaworld Corp. is adding around 51,000 square meters (sq.m.) of office space across projects in Bulacan, Bacolod, and Davao as the property developer bets on sustained office demand in ...

The Philippines is exploring direct talks with foreign governments and encouraging local oil companies to seek alternative suppliers as the conflict in Iran enters its second week, Energy Secretary ...

Hann Reserve in New Clark City, Tarlac. — HANN PHILIPPINES, INC. INTEGRATED RESORT developer Hann Philippines, Inc. is advancing its expansion in Central Luzon, developing residential, educational, ...

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 ...

The construction of a nuclear power plant in Labrador, Pangasinan could make the municipality the richest town in the Philippines, a local lawmaker said. “Can you imagine if not only 1,000 megawatts ...