The Philippines likely missed its target of growing the economy by 6 percent in 2024 due to multiple typhoons that caused disruptions in the local farm sector and industries. “We probably did not hit ...
The Philippines’s external debt service burden (DSB) rose to $14.475 billion as of the end of October 2024, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Total foreign principal and interest ...
OVER 200,000 Filipino household service workers (HSW) in Kuwait may be affected if the government imposes a new deployment restriction for Kuwait following the recently reported deaths of two ...
THE global labor market remains far from equitable as over 400 million people are either unemployed or unable to work due to systemic barriers, the latest International Labour Organization (ILO) ...
FAIRNESS and equality must guide the assignment of ballot numbers, the Commission on Elections has said, rejecting proposals to place a belatedly added senatorial candidate at the end of the list. In ...
ELECTION lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Sunday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) not to remove from the ballots the names of disqualified candidates for the 2025 midterm elections who have ...
THE House of Representatives’ Committee on the Welfare of Children has approved a bill that imposes stricter penalties on parents or fathers who refuse to provide financial support for their children.
Philippine cities celebrated the Feast of the Santo Niño (Holy Child Jesus) on Sunday, January 19, 2025. In Las Piñas City, various sizes of the Santo Niño statues were paraded and blessed by a priest ...
ALL Afghans who arrived in the Philippines to process their application for immigrant visas to the United States have flown to the US last week. Kanishka Gangopadhyay, spokesperson for the US Embassy ...
Anglers, bikers and lovers and families are enjoying a quiet and cool afternoon at the Harbour Square promenade in CCP Complex, Pasay City. Bernard Testa ...
The Philippine government has allocated an additional P3.03 billion this year to strengthen its infrastructure development in the Kalayaan Island Group, located in the northeastern section of the ...
The mining town of Monkayo, Davao de Oro, has been recognized as the region’s best implementer of science and technology programs of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). The regional DOST ...