The Philippine jobless rate rose to 4.7% in April from a year earlier, while underemployment climbed to a nearly three-year high of 15.2%, signaling continued weakness in the labor market. Data from ...

THE Department of Energy (DoE) is projecting more grid alerts in the second half of the year, as the El Niño dry spell takes hold, pushing up power demand. At a briefing on Monday, Energy ...

The Philippines’ manufacturing value added dropped to 15.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, one of the lowest in the East Asia & Pacific region, according to the World Bank data. It trailed ...

(L-R) Martha Sazon, President and CEO of Mynt, the parent company of GCash; Tony Isidro, President and CEO of Fuse Financing Inc.; and Christine Engstrom Director General for Sectors Department 3 in ...

By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Senior Reporter THE National Government’s (NG) outstanding debt rose to a fresh record high of P18.49 trillion as of end-March, driven partly by the peso’s depreciation, ...

FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS in the Philippines are falling behind their counterparts in some Southeast Asian countries in reading, writing and mathematics, with a significant percentage of students still ...

THE WINNER of the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes is the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks surprisingly won the No. 1 overall pick in Monday’s NBA Draft Lottery in Chicago and will surely use the pick on Flagg ...

WASHINGTON/DUBAI — The US and Iran stuck to opposing stances on Thursday over Tehran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait of Hormuz, although US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had ...

Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompatible with the ...

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 ...

Concepcion Industrial Corp. (CIC), the Philippines’ leading provider of home and enterprise solutions, officially returns as the “Powered By” sponsor for the 2026 Philippine Franchise Expo, held from ...

S&P GLOBAL RATINGS revised the Philippines’ credit outlook to “stable” from “positive,” citing risks to the country’s external and fiscal position from surging energy prices due to the Middle East ...