
BDO optimistic despite global headwinds, posts Q1 P20.1-B profit
The country’s largest bank reported P20.1 billion in net income for the first quarter, up 2 percent from P19.7 billion a year earlier, as core businesses…
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The country’s largest bank reported P20.1 billion in net income for the first quarter, up 2 percent from P19.7 billion a year earlier, as core businesses…
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The medium-term picture depends on one critical variable: how long the Middle East conflict will sustain elevated energy prices.
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KINSHASA, DR Congo (AFP) — Spending the past five days cooped up in a hotel in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo is not quite what a group of…
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The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines said it supports efforts to strengthen the protection of workers, but warned that sweeping restrictions may…
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The finance chief’s engagement with American business leaders, including representatives from the US-ASEAN Business Council and the US Chamber of Commerce,…
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A shift toward a circular economy could become a turning point for the Philippines’ waste management system, but researchers warned that its success depends on…
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It does not take much to disrupt this balance. A supply shock far from Manila tightens fuel access, and prices begin to rise.
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SM Hotels and Conventions Corporation (SMHCC), the owning and managing company of Park Inn by Radisson Bacolod, is strengthening its sustainability agenda…
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Market expectations are facing multiple outcomes, as economists like to call multiple equilibria or paths.
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The Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) Philippines has warned that Filipino educators are sinking deeper into debt, citing what it described as persistent…
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SEOUL, South Korea (AFP) — An American YouTuber who caused outrage for filming himself kissing a statue commemorating Korean wartime sex slaves has been…
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There’s the pressure to be better than lucky, to prove that the name is attached to something earned, not inherited.
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The Asian Development Bank now projects Philippine gross domestic product growth at 4.4 percent for 2026 — a 0.9-percentage-point downgrade from its December…
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Economic managers are moving to shield the Philippine economy from the spillover effects of tensions in the Middle East, with a focus on keeping prices stable…
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Eight individuals, including Filipino-Americans, have been charged in connection with an alleged multimillion-dollar hospice fraud scheme uncovered in Southern…
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The Ateneo Institute of Sustainability (AIS) took part in the Circular Economy Business Change Makers Initiative for Southeast Asia, spearheaded by the ASEAN…
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The Asian American Journalists Association-Asia (AAJA-Asia) officially launched its Philippines subchapter on 8 April at the Microsoft office in Makati,…
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The Asian American Journalists Association-Asia (AAJA-Asia) officially launched its Philippines subchapter on 8 April at the Microsoft office in Makati,…
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