THE TRADE Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) on Monday urged the government to include minimum wage earners in the 50% ...

THE debt service bill on foreign borrowing was nearly $5.9 billion in the five months to May, according to preliminary data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). Debt service rose 0.51% to ...

FINANCE Secretary Ralph G. Recto said a prospective Supreme Court (SC) order to return funds taken from the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) and Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) ...

Over a year since the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) issued Revenue Memorandum Circulars (RMC) Nos. 05-2024 and 38-2024, taxpayers continue to navigate the complexities that these twin issuances ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said the beneficiary list of P20-per-kilo rice program will be expanded this month to include fisherfolk. The DA said the rice will start to go on sale at fishports ...

THE public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the pipeline now number 230, valued at P2.86 trillion, the Department of Economy, Planning, and Development (DEPDev) said. Speaking at a House ...

THE temporary ban on rice imports is not expected to stoke inflation as rice stocks remain substantial, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA). “We had a record harvest in the first half, ...

AIR QUALITY in Metro Manila improved significantly in 2024, largely due to emission-reduction programs including the enforcement of Euro 4 fuel standards since 2016, the Department of Environment and ...

THE Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said economic zone (ecozone) proclamations are likely to number 20-30 this year, based on the agency’s best-case target. “We might be able to achieve that ...

THE INTER-AGENCY Council Against Trafficking (IACAT) said on Monday that 120 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) who were victims of human trafficking have been repatriated from Laos, Myanmar, and ...