
DoT optimistic for 2025 despite missing foreign arrivals target
Despite falling short of foreign tourist arrival targets for 2024 due to headwinds beyond their control, Tourism Secretary Cristina Garcia Frasco maintained…
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Despite falling short of foreign tourist arrival targets for 2024 due to headwinds beyond their control, Tourism Secretary Cristina Garcia Frasco maintained…
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The total number of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) repatriated from conflict-hit areas in the Middle East has reached 2,532, along with 89 dependents, as…
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The DFA said the Philippine and Chinese representatives ‘discussed their respective positions on Ayungin Shoal and affirmed their commitment to de-escalate…
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‘We don’t expect Maharlika itself to run projects. Rather we expect these potential joint ventures to take over and we will stand behind them as a major…
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Trump’s team float the deployment of European troops to monitor any ceasefire.
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In literally a span of just two days (from 31 December to 1 January), our exporters of bananas will benefit from a 12 percentage-point reduction in the tariffs…
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‘They are providing capital which reduces their equity which may put them non-compliant with our capital requirements’
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Año criticized China for accusing the Philippines of creating trouble in the region, asserting that the country is simply improving its external deterrence…
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The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced that 13 Filipino women convicted in Cambodia for illegal surrogacy had been repatriated Sunday following a…
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China has once again called on the Philippines to withdraw the United States-made mid-range capability (MRC) missile system also known as Typhon.
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The Board of Investments (BoI) has urged registered business enterprises (RBEs) to file transfers of their existing businesses logged under the Corporate…
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Aboitiz InfraCapital, Inc. (AIC), the infrastructure arm of the Aboitiz Group, recently hosted top executives from the Department of Trade and Industry’s (DTI)…
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB), HSBC and Security Bank Capital Investment Corp. lent early this month to Asialink Finance Corporation $115 million to fund…
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‘It’s a slightly different structure (than our Green Energy Auction Program), but it enables these renewable projects. So, we won that. That’s huge. That’s a…
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One day after hurdling the Senate, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on final reading the bill extending the land lease limits for foreign…
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The country’s tourism receipts, or the spending made by tourists while in the country, reached P712 billion as of mid-December, still far from the P3.36…
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After spending 14 years in prison in a foreign land, Mary Jane Veloso is expected to return to the Philippines this week, a Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)…
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‘Our government has identified the semiconductor industry as a priority for investment’
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