PLAINTIFFS challenging unprogrammed appropriations told the Supreme Court (SC) that the budget mechanism allows billions of pesos to move outside constitutional guardrails, weakening fiscal discipline ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it reached agreement with the pork industry to set a minimum farmgate price of P210 per kilogram for hogs on a liveweight basis. The floor price is designed to ...
DROUGHT induced by El Niño is expected to hit five major rice-growing provinces that accounted for nearly half of the country’s rice output in 2023, the government weather service said. In a report, ...
ALMOST 7 out of 10 Filipino employees place stability and work-life balance at the forefront when choosing where to work, urging employers to offer flexible working options such as working from home, ...
THE PHILIPPINE PESO will likely remain the weakest Asian currency despite further monetary policy tightening by the central bank as the economy remains vulnerable to volatile global oil prices amid ...
SM PRIME Holdings, Inc.’s retail arm SM Supermalls has opened a Government Services Express (GSE) center at SM Center San Pedro in partnership with the San Pedro, Laguna city government, expanding ...
THE Philippine fish catch is declining by an average of 45,000 metric tons (MT) each year due to overfishing, illegal fishing, and weak enforcement of fisheries law, according to Oceana Philippines.
Hann Reserve in New Clark City, Tarlac. — HANN PHILIPPINES, INC. INTEGRATED RESORT developer Hann Philippines, Inc. is advancing its expansion in Central Luzon, developing residential, educational, ...
BUSINESSES in four major destinations are complaining that unreliable power is costing them up to hundreds of thousands of pesos a day, according to ILAW, a non-government organization representing ...