DAVAO CITY—The Davao Consumer Movement said it was elated by the recent Supreme Court decision that removed the perceived exclusivity of an electric cooperative to its franchise area, saying that this ...

TEL AVIV, Israel—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday a deal to return hostages held in the Gaza Strip has been reached, after his office said earlier there were last minute snags in ...

ALEXIE GABI aims for redemption after narrowly missing a national finals berth in the Visayas series as the International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) Junior Philippine Golf Tour resumes ...

The Philippines likely missed its target of growing the economy by 6 percent in 2024 due to multiple typhoons that caused disruptions in the local farm sector and industries. “We probably did not hit ...

OVER 200,000  Filipino household service workers (HSW) in Kuwait may be affected if the government imposes a new deployment restriction for Kuwait following the recently reported deaths of two ...

The Philippines’s external debt service burden (DSB) rose to $14.475 billion as of the end of October 2024, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Total foreign principal and interest ...

THE global labor market remains far from equitable as over 400 million people are either unemployed or unable to work due to systemic barriers, the latest International Labour Organization (ILO) ...

FAIRNESS and equality must guide the assignment of ballot numbers, the Commission on Elections has said, rejecting proposals to place a belatedly added senatorial candidate at the end of the list. In ...

ELECTION lawyer Romulo Macalintal on Sunday urged the Commission on Elections (Comelec) not to remove from the ballots the names of disqualified candidates for the 2025 midterm elections who have ...

THE House of Representatives’ Committee on the Welfare of Children has approved a bill that imposes stricter penalties on parents or fathers who refuse to provide financial support for their children.

Philippine cities celebrated the Feast of the Santo Niño (Holy Child Jesus) on Sunday, January 19, 2025. In Las Piñas City, various sizes of the Santo Niño statues were paraded and blessed by a priest ...

ALL Afghans who arrived in the Philippines to process their application for immigrant visas to the United States have flown to the US last week. Kanishka Gangopadhyay, spokesperson for the US Embassy ...