FAIRNESS and equality must guide the assignment of ballot numbers, the Commission on Elections has said, rejecting proposals to place a belatedly added senatorial candidate at the end of the list. In ...

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 Philippine government has allocated an additional P3.03 billion this year to strengthen its infrastructure development in the Kalayaan Island Group, located in the northeastern section of the ...

WHILE the Philippines is unlikely to be affected by Trump’s tariff policies given its balanced trade with the US, it must address “potential impacts” on electronics manufacturing services and ...

Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo / Special to the BusinessMirror The Year of the Wood Snake slithers in on January 29, heralding “changes and reformation,” as it is dominated by the fire element; this will last ...

SOME 137,000 college students will receive P15,000 in cash assistance this year under the national government’s Tulong Dunong Program (TDP), a lawmaker said. Quezon City Rep. Marvin Rillo, vice ...

THE Philippines could reduce key policy rates more aggressively than the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), but the pace will hinge on inflation, according to Finance Secretary Ralph G. Recto.  ...

SHARE prices went on an extended decline last week as the market became bearish, tracking regional peers ahead of the inauguration of US President Donald Trump this week. The benchmark Philippine ...

The steep hike in global cocoa prices will likely weigh on Philippine chocolatiers and eventually trickle into the cost of the sweet treat.  BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions, recently reported that the ...

GLOBE Telecom Inc. announced last Sunday it has built 10 new sites across the province of Iloilo.  According to Globe Vice-President for External Affairs Patrick Steven J. Gloria, the new sites will ...

THE national government is keeping its offshore borrowing options open, as it monitors various currency markets to optimize funding sources.  “We are preparing and we are monitoring the market,” ...

The Philippines has once again earned the ignominious “Dirty Ashtray Award” for the fifth time, a testament to its ongoing failure to effectively address the public health crisis caused by smoking and ...