Hive Health Philippines Inc., a health insurance startup, said it has acquired Health Plan Philippines Inc. (HPPI), one of the pioneers in health maintenance organization (HMO) service providers in the country.

FINANCIAL regulation that ensures the availability of loans in regions is key to boosting trade in services nationwide, according to a discussion paper published by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).

THE European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP) is lobbying the Bureau of Customs (BoC) to simplify requirements that its members say make it “difficult” to import goods.

DATA-driven decision making is a core ambition for most modern organizations to effectively understand current performance, identify risk and plan for the future. Yet many organizations remain overwhelmed by the amount of data they have. Despite inves...

The UnionDigital Bank Inc. sees a huge business and social opportunity in introducing a sachet loan product—“high-frequency lending” as executives call it—in the Philippines.

STATE-run Land Bank of the Philippines (LandBank) announced having extended a P4.3-billion loan to the provincial government of Pangasinan to improve the province’s public, health and tourism services.

The Department of Agriculture (DA) should consider channeling the P40 billion in annual subsidies for the rice sector to a contract-growing program that will enable government to sell rice to the poor at P20 per kilogram, according to a lawmaker.

Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Sunday said the recent apprehension of a suspected large-scale onion smuggler marks a “crucial milestone” in the government’s ongoing battle against the smuggling and hoarding of agricultural products.

A pasture system in Andorra, hay milk in Austria, areas growing chestnuts, white ginger and waxberries in China, flood-spreading gardens and a walnut cultivating region in Iran and an all-female fishery in the Republic of Korea have become the latest ...

India, the world’s top rice exporter, is expected to maintain its curbs on overseas sales well into next year, a move likely to hold the staple grain at close to its highest price levels since the food crisis of 2008.

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Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you?

I wake up. Another good day to live. Yes, thank heavens for this gift of a day despite the body aches, the failing eyesight, the dizzy spells. I breathe in unison with 10 million seniors in the Philippines and 1 billion around the world.

Following the conclusion of the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE), a senior lawmaker urged the newly elected officials to actively contribute to completing the national database of elderly Filipinos and solo parents.

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique—Senior citizens 85 years old and above in Antique are entitled to an annual social pension as provided for in the amended version of the Elderly Welfare and Development Code of the province of Antique approved by the pr...

IN The Avengers, movie, Loki, portrayed by Tom Hiddleston, delivers the memorable line: “I am Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with glorious purpose.” Who would have thought that those two words, “glorious purpose,” would remarkably encapsulate Lo...

THIS isn’t the first time I am using a Garmin watch. Years ago, I had a Garmin watch with a heart rate monitor. Somehow, it got lost. I suspect that my daughter used it and lost it in school. Fast forward to 2023, my daughter won a Garmin &#16...

YouTube is rolling out new rules for AI content, including a requirement that creators reveal whether they’ve used generative artificial intelligence to make realistic looking videos.

IN appreciation of their efforts to make Angkas a leading motorcycle ride-hailing app in the country, the two-wheel taxi and delivery service provider has launched two new programs meant to improve the livelihoods of partner-riders and support economi...

LONDON—Britain’s cybersecurity agency said on Tuesday that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the country’s next national election, and cyberattacks by hostile countries and their proxies are proliferating and getting harder to track.

THE social development arm of the Ayala group of companies, the Ayala Foundation, and Salesforce, the AI customer relationship management (CRM) platform and global technology company, recently signed  a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU...

917Ventures’ all-in-one digital pet care solutions provider PetPal, in partnership with Univet Nutrition and Animal Healthcare Company (UNAHCO INC), recently held its very first vaccination drive, Pawtection Party: Vaccinate and Celebrate!, to keep fu...

SM Foundation Inc. (SMFI) has consistently invested in critical areas such as health and education to support the country in attaining inclusive growth.

TOP global mining and infrastructure solutions provider Orica has formed a key alliance with the Mining, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department of the University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman College of Engineering.

THE University of Santo Tomas-College of Science hosted the “Distinguished Alumni Lecture in Chemistry” that highlighted the application of the particular branch of science in cancer and mental-health research.

MAGNA Prime Chemical Technologies Inc. is inaugurating a school in the first quarter of 2024 to elevate the norms of the local construction industry by preparing and upskilling new professionals, who will then share their acquired knowledge with colle...

ON November 8, an online ceremony formally opened the preparatory Japanese language training for the 16th batch of Filipino candidates for nurses and certified care workers.

Students of Davao City Special National High School choose their reading materials donated by the Kangaroo Book Club from South Korea.

Davao City’s J.V. Ferriols National High School and Optaciano Hilay National High School received on November 6 electrical installation and maintenance laboratories from Davao Light and Power Co. Inc. and its social-development arm Aboitiz Foundation ...

Vice President and Education Secretary Sara Z. Duterte and Health Secretary Teodoro J. Herbosa discussed on November 13 strategies that will address clustering of influenza-like illnesses or ILI in schools.

THE Philippines and the United States revived a 1968 nuclear cooperation agreement signed during the administration of the late strongman former President Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. allowing US to share its technology to the Philippines for peaceful purp...

The Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) on Friday said it is supporting the restrictions imposed by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) on the access and use of the EDSA Busway, but pointed out that only the “most essential” exemptions...

DAVAO CITY—A shallow but strong earthquake shook a wide portion of eastern half of Mindanao at late afternoon on Friday. The temblor lasted more for than a minute.

Labor group Federation of Free Workers (FFW) has called on the restoration of the capital outlay (CO) budget of State Universities and Colleges (SUC) to boost employment. 

Senator Grace Poe, conveying concerns to ensure clean water supplied to consumers, pressed Congress to frontload passage of an enabling law creating the proposed Department of Water, reminding that “the country’s water woes are too big to be met by fr...

Half of the businesses engaged in German-Philippine economic relations said they are in a “better business situation,” but underscored the need to employ more as they cited the “lack of skilled workers” among the top issues in the business landscape i...