The Philippine jobless rate rose to 4.7% in April from a year earlier, while underemployment climbed to a nearly three-year high of 15.2%, signaling continued weakness in the labor market. Data from ...

(L-R) Martha Sazon, President and CEO of Mynt, the parent company of GCash; Tony Isidro, President and CEO of Fuse Financing Inc.; and Christine Engstrom Director General for Sectors Department 3 in ...

FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS in the Philippines are falling behind their counterparts in some Southeast Asian countries in reading, writing and mathematics, with a significant percentage of students still ...

Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompatible with the ...

WASHINGTON/DUBAI — The US and Iran stuck to opposing stances on Thursday over Tehran’s uranium stockpile and controls on the Strait of Hormuz, although US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said there had ...

The Philippines’ manufacturing value added dropped to 15.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, one of the lowest in the East Asia & Pacific region, according to the World Bank data. It trailed ...

S&P GLOBAL RATINGS revised the Philippines’ credit outlook to “stable” from “positive,” citing risks to the country’s external and fiscal position from surging energy prices due to the Middle East ...

THE Department of Energy (DoE) said the supply-demand balance situation on the Visayas grid could hit “critical” levels next year, resulting in a number of yellow alerts. “There’s potential critical ...

ANALYSTS and economic managers are now finding it harder to precisely measure data in their inflation forecasts as rising uncertainty and the faster-than-usual transmission of oil price shocks ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. on Monday inaugurated a segment of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX), which will cut travel time along the stretch to five from 30 minutes as the government ...

My take on the development experience of nations is that all progress boils down to investment — specifically on the share of income that the nation sets aside for investment or what is called the ...

LONDON — A British minister loyal to Prime Minister Keir Starmer in his fight to stay in power urged his colleagues to “take a breath” on Friday, saying no one had yet proven they had enough support ...