PHILIPPINE INFLATION likely eased for a second straight month to a three-month low in June as lower oil and rice prices offset higher electricity rates, analysts said.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a memorandum imposing recalibrated ceilings on interest rates and fees charged by financing and lending companies on small consumer loans.

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 ...

PHILIPPINE EXPORT RECEIPTS of semiconductor and electronic products are expected to rise to a record $50 billion this year despite global trade uncertainties and an ongoing conflict in the Middle East ...

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 ...

Acumen’s Project Alphabet, undertaken in 2025, showed movements in the top five values that influence behavior and decisions among Filipinos across generations compared with the study 10 years earlier ...

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) has limited its term deposit facility (TDF) and short-term securities to a single tenor each as it aims to enhance monetary policy transmission and push banks to ...

Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA), those classified as covered persons are mandated to report to the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) all covered transactions and suspicious transactions ...