US DEFENSE SECRETARY Lloyd Austin III will meet with his Philippine counterpart in Manila next week to explore deeper security ties and ensure peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, according ...

USAGI, locally known as Ofel, has intensified into a typhoon, prompting the Philippines’ weather bureau to raise tropical wind signals over Luzon on Wednesday. In a 5 p.m. bulletin, the Philippine ...

Abra Rep. Ching B. Bernos on Tuesday asked the House Committee on Natural Resources and Committee on Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICC) and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) to investigate the gold ...

THE COLLECTIVE negotiation agreement (CNA) incentive will be granted to government-owned and controlled corporations (GOCCs) that achieve at least 75% of their performance targets, the Department of ...

A RELIEVED government official is facing a slander complaint from his alleged victim, whom the official slapped three times in a raid in Bataan last month. In an 8-page complaint filed before the ...

THE SENATE has approved an additional budget of P1.6 billion for the Department of Justice (DoJ)’s programs intended to address online sexual abuse of children, cybercrime, and the rental of K9 dogs ...

PAKISTAN is seeking to increase its exports of rice to the Philippines if the latter commits to take up a guaranteed volume, its ambassador to Manila said. “We are ...

THE Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) expects the economy to expand between 5.8% and 6% this year, citing the weakening of inflation. Gross domestic product (GDP) expansion was 5.2% ...

THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) said it is authorized to shut down online sellers not complying with registration and tax remittance rules, alongside its authority to padlock non-compliant ...

THE United Sugar Producers Federation of the Philippines (UNIFED) said on Wednesday that the Sugar Regulatory Administration ...

THE Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI) preliminary safeguard measures investigation on cement imports from Vietnam is necessary to keep the domestic cement industry from incurring undue injury, ...

THE PHILIPPINE government on Wednesday said it would not stand in the way if former President Rodrigo R. Duterte wants to surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC), and would be obliged to ...