The Northeast Monsoon (Amihan) continues to affect Luzon on Monday and will bring rains. The easterlies meanwhile, will affect Visayas and Mindanao, according to PAGASA.
"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" collected an estimated $28.1 million during its domestic opening, the fourth-lowest debut for a DC Extended Universe film.
The joint US-Canadian military monitoring agency has continued its decades-long tradition of tracking Santa's whereabouts, helping children around the globe find out when his reindeer-powered, present-filled sleigh is coming to town.
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has affirmed the ruling issued by a Pasig City court which junked the civil damages suit filed by businessman Robert Sobrepeña against several Bureau of Immigration (BI) officials who were resp...
SEN. Panfilo Lacson said Friday the non-veto of a controversial P450 billion item tucked in additional “Unprogrammed Appropriations” in the 2024 budget could set a “bad precedent,” as he aired concerns over its impact on efforts to keep the ...
SPEAKER Martin Romualdez on Friday congratulated President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for the successful outcomes of his Japan visit earlier this year, and vowed support in helping local enterprises in pursuing the business leads that these spawned.
DAVAO City 1st District Representative Paolo Duterte has proposed a measure to make it compulsory for private enterprises with more than 100 employees to allot at least one percent of their total positions to qualified persons with disabilities (PWDs).
NAVAL Forces West (NFW) has facilitated the distribution of Christmas goodies and other essential supplies to the troops and communities located in the West Philippine Sea.
THE Philippines has imported almost 120,000 metric tons (MT) of onions and garlic to augment its domestic supply to meet its domestic requirement for the spices, latest Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI) data showed.
A HOUSE leader expects Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. to continue interacting with the governors of the country’s biggest palay-growing provinces on how to dramatically boost the domestic supply of rice and pull down the retail cost of...
THE Philippines declared 12 provinces free from avian influenza (AI) this year, bringing to 14 the total number of areas that have recovered from the transboundary animal disease.
Rice prices reached a fresh 15-year high on mounting concerns that increased demand and the impact of El Niño will further tighten supplies of the grain that is a staple for billions across Asia and Africa.
Within four months of ChatGPT’s launch on November 30, 2022, most Americans had heard of the AI chatbot. Hype about—and fear of—the technology was at a fever pitch for much of 2023.
THIS year’s push for renewable energy (RE) transition has undeniably made progress, but next year appears to be tougher for the power sector as experts warned that the El Niño phenomenon will persist until the second quarter.
THE country’s exports could grow 5 to 6 percent in 2024, with the electronics sector as the growth driver, according to an official of the Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (Philexport).
The tide turned against inflation. Artificial intelligence went mainstream—for good or ill. Labor unions capitalized on their growing might to win more generous pay and benefits.
REMOVING economic restrictions in the Constitution could allow the country to take advantage of economic opportunities in the next few years, according to the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).
MALACAÑANG’S decision to create the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Investment and Economic Affairs (OSAPIEA) could improve the country’s chances of attaining the Philippine Development Plan (PDP).
THE Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza) said it wants to achieve P202 billion to as much as P250 billion worth of investments in 2024. It described this goal as the level of investment approvals posted by the agency during the leadership of a fo...
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SINCE the start of the 21st century, Filipino Chinese businessmen have dominated Forbes Asia’s list of the “Philippines’ 50 Richest” in terms of net worth. Every year, the list is being compiled using financial information obtained from the stock exch...
REAL estate broker Leechiu Property Consultants Inc. said capital values across Metro Manila’s main commercial districts have sustained their levels despite local and global headwinds throughout the year.
THE country’s lone oil refiner may end the year with P12 billion in net income, double from last year’s P6.7 billion, Petron Corp. President Ramon S. Ang said.
RAZON-led Prime Energy Resources Development B.V. (Prime Energy) is allocating next year at least 31 percent of the planned $600-million work program investment for the Malampaya gas field.
BYD Co. plans to build its first European car factory in Hungary, part of a push by the Chinese electric-vehicle powerhouse to challenge Tesla Inc. as the dominant maker of battery-powered cars.
THE power unit of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is set to complete next month its 32 battery energy storage system (BESS) projects with a combined capacity of 1,000 megawatt hours (MWh).
The General Assembly has approved a $3.59 billion budget for the United Nations for 2024, including the establishment of a special account to finance the Organization’s peacebuilding fund.