THE coronavirus contagion may have had a dent on the publishing sector, but it did not halt local writers from creating stories stoking Filipinos’ penchant for reading, especially when they were all locked in their homes at the height of the lockdowns.

MANILA—A bill was filed in Congress providing P1,000 monthly maintenance medication support for senior citizens to help improve their quality of life and ease financial constraints.

MANILA—A party-list lawmaker on Friday pushed for the creation of an agriculture pension fund for aging and elderly farmers and fisherfolk so that they may enjoy social security benefits upon their retirement.

FOOD-CHAIN giant operator Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) has teamed up with the local government unit (LGU) of Muntinlupa to give senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) a chance to become productive and be able to support themselves or their...

There is one person in my life whose face I couldn’t shake off my mind for many years. I first encountered Mr. G in an ad agency that was at that time newly established. I was one of the first to join it, and even had a minor share. Then a short time ...

THE head of the Houthi-Yemeni naval forces has inspected the 25 crew, including 17 Filipinos, of seized Japanese car carrier Galaxy Leader who were held while passing through the Red Sea last Monday.

The Philippines is not in the radar of foreign investors leaving China as they prefer to transfer to countries where regulations are “more predictable,” according to the United Kingdom’s top diplomat in Manila.

DOMESTIC travelers to Boracay have exceeded their pre-pandemic numbers, helping  lift  total visitor arrivals to 1.83 million as of November 7.

The Philippines should aspire to become the first country in Asia to sell sovereign carbon credits, House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Joey Sarte Salceda said on Friday.

SENATE President Juan Miguel Zubiri, addressing international lawmakers attending the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) in Manila, prodded the visiting delegates to “opt for cooperative security approach.”

VERZONTAL Builders Inc., one of the joint venture partners in the P3.14-billion Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) project of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), plans to file another round of civil and criminal complaints against German i...

SEN. Christopher “Bong” Go has affirmed his commitment to supporting Filipinos affected by disasters, emphasizing the importance of resilience and mutual aid in times of crisis.

BEIRUT—The militant Hezbollah group fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel on Thursday, a day after an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon killed five of the group’s senior fighters.

HELSINKI—The European Union’s border agency said Thursday that it will send dozens of officers and equipment as reinforcements to Finland to help police its borders amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants arriving to the country.

SM Foundation marks the graduation of Urban Gardeners

SEVEN out of 10 Filipinos believe their jobs will change because of Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to LinkedIn’s 2024 workplace trends survey.

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said the government is set to come out with a comprehensive assessment of the country’s existing cyber threats next year.

PRICES of over 150 stock keeping units (SKUs) of Noche Buena products such as cheese, sandwich spread, ham, fruit cocktail, keso de bola, and mayonnaise have increased, according to the 2023 “mock-up” Noche Buena Price Guide of the Department of Trade...

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said its January-to-October collections rose by 11 percent on an annual basis to over P2.1 trillion, driven by its digitalization efforts and campaign against fake receipts.

TIRED after days and long hours of hearing budget presentations of different government agencies in plenary sessions, senators were suddenly energized at past 1 a.m. on Tuesday and took turns lambasting a newly-appointed tourism official for what they...

BEIJING has nixed the idea of Manila to have a separate code of conduct only among Southeast Asian claimants of the South China Sea.

STARTING January next year, every Friday will be a “catch-up” day in schools to improve the academic performance of learners, Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Z. Duterte announced on Tuesday.

TO prepare for the consequences of the imposition of the global minimum corporate tax, the House Committee on Ways and Means approved last Tuesday several proposals aimed at enhancing Republic Act (RA) 11534 or the “Create” law.

FOR the second consecutive year, BusinessMirror won the top prize of the Bright Leaf Agriculture Journalism Awards. Henry Empeño’s article titled “Good as Gold” was adjudged the Agriculture Story of the Year during the awarding ceremony held last week...

THE demand for long-term government securities more than doubled to over P70 billion as investors’ asking yields for Treasury bonds (T-bonds) dropped on the back of easing inflation and pauses in monetary policy rates.

PROPERTY developer Vista Land and Lifescapes Inc. has set the price of its interest rate for its peso-denominated fixed-rate bonds.

BUDGET carrier Philippines AirAsia Inc. announced last Tuesday it was hailed as the “most punctual airline in Southeast Asia” by aviation analytics group LNRS Data Services Ltd. (trading as Cirium).

SIX power firms offered the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) over 3,000 megawatts (MW) of baseload capacity for delivery starting a year from now.

Filinvest Development Corp., the holding firm of the Gotianun group, announced last Tuesday it filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the shelf registration of peso-denominated fixed rate bonds of up to P3...

MERBAU Corp., the renewable energy (RE) arm of JG Summit Holdings, Inc., has completed the installation of 13.811-megawatt (MW) peak solar power for the integrated petrochemical complex of JG Summit which houses JG Summit Olefins Corp. (JGSOC) manufac...

THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) announced it has teamed up with ComClark Network and Technology Corp. to provide digital access to more than 2,000 geographically isolated and disadvantaged areas (GIDA) across the cou...

DBDOYC Inc., doing business as Angkas, announced having tapped the services of the Home Development Mutual Fund (Pag-IBIG Fund) for its riders.

PHILEX Mining Corp. announced last Tuesday of having secured a P100-million syndicated debt facility for Silangan Mindanao Mining Co. Inc., which Philex Mining refers to as the “Silangan project.”

THE Senate has granted the Commission on Elections (Comelec) an additional P500 million for next year’s budget in preparation for the midterm elections scheduled in 2025.

PHILIPPINE hotel owners and opera-tors need a clear direction from the government on how it will achieve the pre-pandemic arrivals of 8.26 million and how the industry can help attain this goal.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the United States (US) Indo-Pacific Command on Tuesday started their three-day joint maritime and air patrols in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).