PHILIPPINE FOOD sales are forecast to grow 5% this year as a result of sustained domestic demand driven by population growth, rising incomes, and overseas remittances, according to the US Department ...

SUBSIDIES provided to state-run firms rose to P4.39 billion in January, the Bureau of the Treasury said, after zero subsidies were issued to government-owned and -controlled corporations (GOCCs) a ...

THE government-run Food Terminal, Inc. (FTI) has signed a hog supply deal with the Philippine arm of Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand Foods PLC (CP Foods) to help stabilize pork prices in Metro Manila, as ...

MANUFACTURERS, already worried about the lack of resilience in their supply chains, are bracing for further disruption as trading partners start erecting tariff barriers. “Supply chain security (is a ...

The governor of Basilan has offered a P1-million incentive in exchange for any information leading to the capture of five prisoners who escaped from a jail in the province on Sunday with the help of ...

THE ALLIES of former President Rodrigo R. Duterte are using the Senate investigation into his arrest as a platform to solidify their standing in the upcoming midterm elections, political analysts said ...

MILITARY FORCES in northern Philippines should start “planning for action” in the event of an invasion of neighboring Taiwan, its military chief said on Tuesday, as China started joint army, navy and ...

SENATE PRESIDENT Francis G. Escudero on Tuesday called on the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to work with authorities in Qatar to expedite the release of Filipinos who participated in a political ...

THE PHILIPPINES on Tuesday sent a team of soldiers and government doctors to help earthquake victims in Myanmar. The first batch of 58 members of the humanitarian aid team, composed of 91 army and air ...

THE Office of Civil Defense (OCD) on Tuesday said it would work with the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to ensure local government units enforce stricter building permit ...

THE TRANSPORTATION department should consider tapping local jeepney makers rather than importing public utility jeepneys (PUJs) under the government’s modernization plan to limit fare increases, a ...