THE PHILIPPINE peso may slide to the P59-a-dollar level this week as markets price in US President-elect Donald J. Trump’s economic policies and amid safe-haven demand for the dollar due to ...

By Chloe Mari A. Hufana, Reporter DESPITE a drop in the number of working children in 2023, a labor group leader called for intensified efforts to eliminate child labor in the Philippines fully, ...

PHILIPPINE SHARES are expected to decline this week as market sentiment is weighed by a weak peso. “The peso’s weakness against the dollar, if it persists, especially if it breaches the P59 level, may ...

THE National Security Council (NSC) on Sunday said all threats to the President’s life is “considered a matter of national security” after Vice-President Sara Z. Duterte-Carpio’s assassination remarks ...

THE recent spate of typhoons traversing the Philippines has forced farmers to re-evaluate their planting strategies, with quick-to-mature crops now in favor to increase the likelihood that harvests ...

Gunmen killed the assistant municipal election officer of Isulan, Sultan Kudarat in an ambush in a nearby town in the province on Saturday afternoon. In separate reports on Sunday, the Sultan Kudarat ...

THE 91st batch of repatriates from Lebanon came home to the Philippines on Sunday, composed of 75 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said. This batch brings the ...

THE National Government needs to improve the utilization of disaster mitigation and response funds to enhance the implementation of calamity intervention programs, a congressional think-tank said. In ...

Ukraine has lost over 40% of the territory in Russia’s Kursk region that it seized in a surprise incursion in August as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, a senior Ukrainian ...

THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said it is seeking to establish a registration process for online merchants of consumer products to ensure their products meet certification standards. In a ...

CONGRESS needs to open to the public the deliberations on the 2025 budget to discourage insertions by legislators pursuing their own agenda, political analysts said.