A BRIDGE constructed as a replacement for the collapsed Clarin bridge in Loay, Bohol will be opened to two-way traffic next month, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) said on Thursday.

THE Department of Finance (DoF) said that the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL) has removed rice as the main driver of inflation by making farmers more productive, with average farm yields rising to 4.22 tons per hectare (t/ha) in 2021 from 3.65 t/ha before the law took effect.

PHILIPPINE President-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday said he would consider making President Rodrigo R. Duterte his government’s anti-drug czar.

PRESIDENT-elect Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Thursday vowed to protect Philippine-claimed areas in the South China Sea by engaging China on the dispute.

THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) on Thursday proclaimed 55 winners in the party-list race, with ACT-CIS getting the biggest number of votes and securing three seats in the House of Representatives for the incoming 19th Congress.

One of the few concrete policy promises Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. made during his campaign for the Presidency of these isles of forgetfulness was to make rice available at P20 per kilo.

As one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitters, Indonesia has pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

Looking back to the latter part of 2021, the US market environment was robust for equities, with strong economic growth that led to stock valuations that appeared appropriate to us. At the same time, the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed’s) accommodative environment — put in place during the pandemic — impacted fixed income markets.

FROM EXPORT BANS to price controls, governments in Asia are taking a much more targeted approach than their Western counterparts in curbing global inflationary pressure, a strategy that appears to be working at least for now.

JAPAN is set to allow in some package tourists from overseas starting June 6, broadcaster TV Asahi reported Thursday, in the latest step to ease controls that were introduced in a bid to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

RUSSIA is advancing a new law allowing it to take control of the local businesses of Western companies that decide to leave in the wake of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, raising the stakes for multinationals trying to exit.

THE FINANCE department is pressing the incoming Marcos administration to impose new tax measures, defer personal income tax reductions and repeal some tax exemptions to raise much-needed revenues and reduce the Philippines’ debt.