
Manufacturing losses drive Central Visayas unemployment at 3.8%
Twin natural disasters that struck Cebu in 2025 triggered a slight decline in the Central Visayas labor force and forced the closure of several manufacturing…
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Twin natural disasters that struck Cebu in 2025 triggered a slight decline in the Central Visayas labor force and forced the closure of several manufacturing…
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De Leon is meant to be the DBM’s clean break from the P1-trillion ‘Floodgate’ mess, a fresh face to bury an ugly chapter.
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The local bourse slipped again for the fifth straight day while the peso closed marginally stronger at P61.74 per US dollar from Tuesday’s record-low P61.75…
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A pivotal moment was the 2019 General Appropriations Act standoff over P95 billion in insertions, which led to the budget’s reenactment. Monsod said it was…
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The Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) extended its decline on Tuesday while the peso held steady at the record low of P61.75 posted a day earlier,…
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The parents of a former student leader killed in a recent armed encounter here have appealed to authorities and communist rebel groups to spare them from…
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‘The conflict is expected to affect labor markets for some time, with the scale and duration of its effects depending on how the situation evolves.’
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‘This unconstitutional framework, where UAs are chained to the GAA, is so massive that it would not fit inside one suitcase, but several.’
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Senator Jinggoy Estrada is among those facing possible plunder and graft charges after the Office of the Ombudsman received the Department of Justice (DoJ)…
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Japanese Ambassador Endo Kazuya on 18 May 2026 met with Department of Finance (DoF) Secretary Frederick D. Go to exchange views on key economic and financial…
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Seven multilateral development banks pledged to strengthen support for countries affected by the economic fallout from the ongoing Middle East conflict, citing…
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The survival of democratic institutions as respected pillars of governance depends on whether they can recover the qualities that once defined them.
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There’s a huge gap between what GDP measures and what people value.
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Employers are urging the government to prioritize economic reforms and national stability to restore investor confidence, boost investments, and protect jobs…
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The problem with misleading information is that it systematically devalues objective truth and, over time, is passed off as truth itself.
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The false narratives sow fear and suspicion in exchange for the truth. It is the unseen hand that manipulates, destabilizes and profits from disunity.
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Leaving the city, I carry both admiration and restlessness. Because once you’ve seen what’s possible, it becomes harder to settle for anything less.
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The Office of the Ombudsman revealed on Saturday that it is investigating reports involving controversial government flood control projects.
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