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.

The Philippine government has allocated an additional P3.03 billion this year to strengthen its infrastructure development in the Kalayaan Island Group, located in the northeastern section of the ...

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 ...

THE Philippines could reduce key policy rates more aggressively than the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), but the pace will hinge on inflation, according to Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto.  ...

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 national government is keeping its offshore borrowing options open, as it monitors various currency markets to optimize funding sources.  “We are preparing and we are monitoring the market,” ...

Third of a series The Philippines can and should continue its environmental sustainability champion role in the Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and ...

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 ...

TE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) announced over the weekend that it did not impose a lease fee from the government for the use of the fiber optics and other broadband-related ...

The absence of a law should not result in the loss of the jobs of more than 60,000 motorcycle riders in the country, Sen. Grace Poe said, as she prodded regulators to allow the riders to keep plying ...

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 ...