Jan-Feb NG borrowings rise 30.7% to P764.23B
THE national government reported gross borrowings of P764.23 billion from January to February this year, jumping by 30.7 percent from P584.57 billion in the same...
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As CREATE takes effect, new invest plan pushed
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) expressed the immediate need to come up with a new priority investment list as the country transitions to...
UK-bound OFWs not restricted by ‘red list’
DEPLOYMENT of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) in the United Kingdom (UK) will continue even after the British government included the country in its travel “red...
DTI Chief: No need to relax loan rules on tourism MSME
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) remains confident that more tourism stakeholders will be able to tap the funds made available to them under...
As Balikatan opens, PHL-US sides tackle mutual defense
THE Philippines and the United States will open their biggest joint military exercise on Monday (April 12) amid heightened tension in the West Philippine Sea...
DHSUD’s one-stop centers to ease home ownership
THE Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has established Housing One Stop Processing Centers in the regional offices to facilitate home ownership nationwide....
500-M doses of Sinovac ferried by PAL Sunday
The 500,000 doses of Sinovac are unloaded on Sunday (April 11, 2021) after its arrival onboard a PAL commercial flight. HALF a million doses of...
Charles: Royal family ‘deeply grateful’ for world’s support
In this grab taken from video, Britain’s Prince Charles addresses the media, outside Highgrove House in Gloucestershire, England on Saturday, April 10, 2021. Britain’s Prince...
Non-essential gatherings are out, DTI tells public
THE Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reiterated call to avoid non-essential gatherings to prevent reverting to stricter lockdown measures amid the pandemic. DTI Secretary...
500-K doses of Sinovac ferried by PAL Sunday
The 500,000 doses of Sinovac are unloaded on Sunday (April 11, 2021) after its arrival onboard a PAL commercial flight. HALF a million doses of...
Myanmar security forces kill 82 protesters in 1 day
A police vehicle is parked at a road in South Okkalapa township to block anti-coup protesters gathering in Yangon, Myanmar on Friday, April 9, 2021....
PHL among countries listed as top cyber-attackers’ origin
THE Philippines is among the places of origin in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region where cyber-attacks were mostly launched in the second half of last...
NCR Plus placed under MECQ until April 30
DESPITE the ongoing influx in daily new Covid-19 cases nationwide, the government decided to ease community lockdown in the National Capital Region (NCR) and its...
Govt centralizing contact-tracing database amid use of various apps by LGUs
THE government is now eyeing to centralize the government’s contact tracing database to boost the government’s efforts to contain the local spread of Covid-19. Presidential...
Metro Manila mayors adjust unified curfew hours to 8pm-5am, as NCR Plus goes MECQ
CHAIRMAN Benjamin “Benhur” Abalos Jr. of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority announced that the Metro Manila Council (MMC) have agreed to implement unified curfew hours...
PHL calls on Myanmar to adhere to the Asean Human Rights Declaration
In this March 4, 2021, file photo, people build barricades to deter security personnel from entering a protest area in Mandalay, Myanmar. The world is...
CIDG field offices told to arrest parties marketing Ivermectin for human use
THE Philippine National Police through the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) will arrest people who will use and market the unregulated drug Ivermectin, which...
PNR resumes operations April 12 after mass testing of personnel for Covid
A PNR train with new coaches is parked in Caloocan City. AFTER completing the mass testing of its personnel, the Philippine National Railways (PNR) resumes...
Somewhere, beneath the sea
SULU Sea’s huge natural gas deposit has remained untapped to this day as the country is expected to see the depletion of its active and...
US inflation has gone K-shaped in the pandemic like everything else
A person wearing a protective mask holds a fuel pump nozzle at a Chevron Corp. gas station in San Francisco, California, US, on March 11,...
Why shortages of a $1 chip part sparked crisis in global economy
The chip crunch was born out of an understandable miscalculation as the coronavirus pandemic hit last year. To understand why the $450 billion semiconductor industry...
Biden’s orphaned AstraZeneca supply rises to 20 million doses
In this March 22, file photo, vials of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine sit in a fridge at the local vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich,...
Covid-19 pandemic shifted how donors gave, but will it continue?
In this June 16, 2015 file photo, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker attends a reception at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit. The Ford...
Singapore leadership plan upended as deputy prime minister steps aside
Heng Swee Keat, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, speaks during a meeting in Singapore, February 19, 2020. Heng on Thursday stepped aside as...