PSEi climbs as soft US data boost Fed pause bets
PHILIPPINE SHARES climbed on Wednesday following the release of soft US economic data, which could lead the US Federal Reserve to pause its tightening...
Palace approves three-year plan to upgrade food logistics network
PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has approved a three-year plan to upgrade the food distribution network, saying that the logistics industry remains hampered by...
BCDA sees land sales of up to P1.45T if bill approved, may help fund...
THE Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) said on Wednesday that it could generate up to P1.45 trillion from land sales if House Bill...
IRR on streamlined telecom permits expected next month
THE implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the Executive Order (EO) No. 32, which calls for the telecommunications permit process to be streamlined, are...
VP’s 2024 budget breezes through House body with no questions asked
PHILIPPINE Vice-President Sara Duterte-Carpio’s P2.39-billion budget request for 2024 breezed through the House committee on appropriations on Wednesday after her congressional allies voted to end the hearing on “parliamentary courtesy.”
Philippines to boost military presence in South China Sea
ARMED Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief General Romeo S. Brawner, Jr. on Wednesday vowed to boost the country’s military presence in the South China Sea amid rising tensions with China.
Saola batters Luzon; another storm brews
TROPICAL CYCLONE Wind Signal No. 2 remained hoisted over Batanes and Babuyan Islands on Wednesday as Super Typhoon Saola, locally named Goring, battered northern...
Gilas PHL braces for classification phase for number 17th-32nd place
LOOKING at the losing margins against Italy in the 2019 faceoff and the most recent duel, one may say Gilas Pilipinas handled the “Italian...
Walter Sam, Jr. and Mary Fe Bagawisan rule PHL Army’s arnis anyo non-traditional event
ZAMBOANGA CITY — Walter Sam, Jr. of MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology and Mary Fe Bagawisan of Jose Rizal Memorial State University-Dipolog garnered similar 8.833...
Italian mentor Pozzecco was left searching for boxing legend Pacquiao
MEETING his idol Manny Pacquiao will have to wait a little longer for Italy mentor Gianmarco Pozzecco.
The animated Azzurri mentor was left searching for...
IMF warns climate change may worsen conflicts in fragile states
JOHANNESBURG — Climate change is likely to worsen conflicts in fragile and war-torn states, resulting in higher death rates and greatly reduced GDP, the...
Canada detects 1st case of the highly mutated coronavirus variant
OTTAWA — Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British...