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SHFC and PCUP have signed a new partnership to expand community-driven socialized housing for organized urban poor communities, supporting President Marcos Jr.’s 4PH program and revitalizing the Community Mortgage Program on its 38th anniversary.

Nine of 10 are crooked

Roughly a quarter-million infrastructure projects were flagged as potentially anomalous since 2016. Thirty thousand of those for flood control alone.

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Doubling down on failure

Doubling down on failure

Among the 11 countries of Southeast Asia, only two have highly privatized power sectors: Singapore and the Philippines.

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Team approach Resilience investment must be scaled beyond what individual companies choose to do voluntarily, as it will go a long way toward building infrastructure that will shield the economy from the adverse effects of changing weather patterns, SM Prime Holdings Executive Committee chairperson Hans Sy said.

Resilience champ paces global crusade

In a High-Level Dialogue on scaling disaster risk reduction financing, he walked through what resilience actually looks like when it is poured into concrete…

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Indigenous means security

Indigenous means security

Santa Rita and San Lorenzo are designed to prioritize indigenous Malampaya gas under normal operating conditions.

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Businessman Martin Leyeza expects a hole-in-one in his firm, ComWorks, being tapped by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office as a nationwide Lotto Authorized Agent.

Lady Luck’s quiet broker

Under Leyeza’s vision, the company has expanded its nationwide footprint, delivering last-mile digital access to communities long underserved by traditional…

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Vanishing holy grail

Vanishing holy grail

Either the paperwork behind a P450-billion swing in the budget never existed or it exists and Congress has been withholding it from the Court reviewing its…

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(July 02 2026) A view of the buildings of Taguig and Makati were seen from Mndaluyong City. The World Bank Group's latest country income classifications, released July 1, moved the Philippines from lower-middle-income to upper-middle-income status based on 2025 gross national income per capita estimates. The nation achieved this status after its Gross National Income (GNI) per capita reached $4,850, exceeding the $4,636 threshold for this income bracket. Under the updated thresholds, upper-middle-income economies are those with GNI per capita of $4,636 to $14,375. Lower-middle-income economies are those with GNI per capita of $1,176 to $4,635, while high-income economies are those above $14,375. Photo/Analy Labor

No big deal

According to WB data, the country’s gross national income per capita hit $4,850, which is the upper-middle-income country threshold.

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