PHILIPPINE INFLATION likely eased for a second straight month to a three-month low in June as lower oil and rice prices ...

The Philippines ranked 56th out of 169 countries in terms of the “internet poor” as a share of the population, according to the 2024 Internet Poverty Index by Austria-based data enterprise World Data ...

By Subramanyam Sreenivasaiah DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION in the Philippines has already moved from adoption to optimization. Yet, beneath this progress, shadow AI or the use of unauthorized tools to manage ...

The passage of Republic Act No. 12234, or the Konektadong Pinoy Act (KPA), together with its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR), marks a significant shift in how the Philippines approaches ...

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 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 ...

SAN MIGUEL CORP. (SMC) said it would continue investing in projects aligned with domestic growth despite a sharp decline in first-quarter (Q1) net income caused by the absence of one-off gains booked ...

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 ...

STEADY INFLOWS from remittances and the services sector despite emerging external pressures helped narrow the Philippines’ balance of payments (BoP) gap to a three-month low in April, Bangko Sentral ...

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 ...

THE human rights situation in the Philippines remains defined by a deeply entrenched culture of impunity and the continued occurrence of unlawful killings under the administration of President ...