THE PESO weakened anew on Tuesday, joining the Chinese yuan and other Asian currencies that weakened against the dollar. The local unit closed at P56.68 per dollar on Tuesday, dropping by seven ...

THE Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) has called on the government and private contractors to expedite the completion of crucial infrastructure projects to help address the country’s ...

PHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., has signed into law a measure that allows the proper and timely burial of dead Muslims according to their traditions. Republic Act 12160, “An Act ...

THE Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has sounded the alarm over a surge in online sexual exploitation of Filipino children, with cases climbing by six-fold to 2.7 million in 2023 from 426,000 in 2019.

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has signed a law declaring a special non-working holiday in Calapan City, Oriental Mindoro every March 21 to commemorate its founding day. “March 21 of every year is ...

PHILIPPINE STOCKS managed to close higher on Tuesday even as the market mostly moved sideways due to lingering jitters caused by the Trump administration’s trade policies. The bellwether Philippine ...

THE government of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) on Tuesday expressed solidarity with the nation’s Catholic majority in mourning the death of Pope Francis, who led the ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Tuesday that it will invite more hog farms to participate in a direct-sourcing scheme piloted by Food Terminal, Inc. (FTI), which supplies retailers with ...

LUGGAGE maker PLG Prime Global Co., a US-Taiwan company, is considering setting up a manufacturing facility in the Philippines, the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) said. In a statement on ...

A full run of the Technical Education Skills Development Authority’s (TESDA) Community Based Training (CBT) program in masonry is on the pipeline for Pangasinenses. This comes as the Pangasinan ...

THE National Food Authority (NFA) said it built up reserves equivalent to nine days’ consumption — 7.17 million 50-kilogram bags of milled rice, the highest inventory level since the end of 2020. The ...

THE information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) industry said US tariffs may end up having an indirect impact on services, citing the growth slowdown from US President Donald J.