DENR moving to identify more potential sources of water
THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said it will classify in the next five years 183 more bodies of water according to...
Peso continues to climb
THE PESO continued to strengthen against the dollar on Wednesday ahead of the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium amid the absence of catalysts offshore and at...
N. Korea’s Kim ‘starting to respect US’ — Trump
SEOUL -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is “starting to respect” the United States, President Donald J. Trump declared, even as Pyongyang revealed plans...
Smartphone shipments in PHL drop in second quarter — IDC
THE VOLUME of smartphones shipped to the Philippines declined in the second quarter as local vendors faced tougher competition from their Chinese counterparts, a...
Fisheries output decline narrows in Q2 — PSA
TOTAL FISHERIES production declined year on year in the second quarter, according to a report by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
According to PSA’s second...
Best to be Swiss if you’re eating steak in Zurich
SWISS meat prices are pretty hard to stomach at first glance.
At $49.68, Switzerland tops the ranking for a kilogram of beef leg round. Yet...
Donald Trump and Ninoy Aquino
By Philip Ella Juico
Republican Donald J. Trump blamed on Tuesday “both sides” for the violence that had occurred during a white supremacist rally on Aug. 12, in...
Shares end flat amid lack of market-moving news
By Arra B. Francia, Reporter
STOCKS traded sideways for lack of leads on Wednesday, causing the local barometer to fall below the 8,000 mark for the...
Moto Z2 Play: A mixed bag
By Samantha Gonzales
MOTOROLA’S Moto Z2 Play is its 2017 upgrade of its mid-range modular smartphone. With a thinner and lighter body than that of 2016’s...
Agri drives fastest Thai economic expansion in more than 4 years
THAILAND’S economy grew at the fastest pace in more than four years, led by a surge in farming output and tourism.
Gross domestic product rose...
Wild times as Madagascar rides vanilla price bubble
HIT by rampant speculation and a collapse in production following cyclone Enawo, the price of vanilla — Madagascar’s largest export — has surged in...
Growth expected to stay faster than 6%
THE PHILIPPINES is poised to maintain above-six percent growth over the next four years, S&P Global Ratings said in a report released yesterday, noting...