A PHILIPPINE senator has urged the Department of Transportation (DoTr) to work with state-run lenders Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) and Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) to buy ...

THE DEPARTMENT of Budget and Management (DBM) said on Thursday it has released P3.74 billion to fund free college education for over 200,000 students in the country. The DBM said it approved on April ...

CORDILLERA police uprooted marijuana plants in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, Kalinga during a raid on Tuesday. — PHOTO COURTESY OF POLICE REGIONAL OFFICE-CORDILLERA BAGUIO CITY — A marijuana plantation ...

THE BUREAU of Internal Revenue (BIR) has filed a criminal case against a trading firm that used over P200 million worth of fake receipts. “The company used these fake receipts by claiming them as part ...

TWO Philippine pharmaceutical companies under the AC Health group were recognized in Asia for easing Molnupiravir access in the country at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and fast tracking the ...

A COURT has sentenced businessman Cedric C. Lee, model Deniece V. Cornejo and two others to 40 years imprisonment for the crime of serious illegal detention filed against them by actor and host ...

THE 2024 Shari’ah Bar Exams logged the biggest number of examinees since 1983 at 855 during the two testing dates on April 28 and May 2 at the University of the Philippines-Diliman in Quezon City and ...

THE National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said it placed the Luzon power grid under yellow alert on Thursday ...

MAYNILAD Water Services, Inc. said there will be no water interruption in its service area during the May 1-15 period, after regulators maintained the capital’s raw water allocation from Angat Dam at ...

A farmer guides his carabao on dry and cracked farmland in San Juan town, Batangas, April 18, 2010. — REUTERS/ROMEO RANOCO AGRICULTURAL damage caused by El Niño has been estimated at P5.9 billion, ...

TOBACCO growers expressed support for the Anti-Agricultural Economic Sabotage Act, citing the need to address unfair competition from smuggled tobacco products, and asked the President to sign the ...

A FREE trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union (EU) needs to be concluded by the time the Philippines’ current market access arrangements expire, the government’s chief trade negotiator said.