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 ...

Just by the sound of it, the Greek word “pleonexia” comes off as a disease. However, such a word, sometimes referred to as pleonexy, means greed, covetousness, or avarice. In other words, it is “the ...

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 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 ...

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 Philippines’s external debt service burden (DSB) rose to $14.475 billion as of the end of October 2024, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed. Total foreign principal and interest ...

Philippine cities celebrated the Feast of the Santo Niño (Holy Child Jesus) on Sunday, January 19, 2025. In Las Piñas City, various sizes of the Santo Niño statues were paraded and blessed by a priest ...

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 ...

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 ...

IT took some time, but with President Marcos’ signing of RA 12120, the country’s energy security is no longer just a pipe dream. This law is set to revive foreign investor interest in the country’s ...

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 global labor market remains far from equitable as over 400 million people are either unemployed or unable to work due to systemic barriers, the latest International Labour Organization (ILO) ...