Caught flat-footed
Jobs creation in 2025 was a meager 172,000, far below the long-term average of around 700,000 and the target of employing one million Filipinos annually.
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Jobs creation in 2025 was a meager 172,000, far below the long-term average of around 700,000 and the target of employing one million Filipinos annually.
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BORONGAN CITY — Eastern Samar officials are preparing for a possible fuel shortage as rising prices and transport constraints threaten the province’s supply.
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The Department of Energy on Monday announced that huge fuel price increases will be implemented by petroleum companies beginning Tuesday, 17 March, until 23…
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Progressive group PISTON has announced plans for a nationwide transport strike on Thursday, 19 March, to protest rising fuel prices that they say are eroding…
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Tawi-Tawi and several other Mindanao provinces recorded the highest rates of struggling readers at the start of the 2025–2026 school year, according to a…
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MANAMA, Bahrain (AFP) — United States President Donald Trump called for other nations’ warships to help protect world oil supplies passing through the Strait…
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A banking analyst said the Marcos Jr. administration could roll out more subsidies once the peso further weakens to P60 to mitigate the impact of surging…
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While we may not control global events or rising oil prices, we can still choose how we respond to one another.
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If geopolitical conflict in the Middle East continues to disrupt supply chains, the Philippines must be better prepared.
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China calls for restraint even as it continues to purchase Iranian crude.
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Each jeepney driver, for instance, assuming that they operate 300 days a year, shells out P135,000 in fuel taxes.
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More than 400 Filipinos from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrived Saturday afternoon at Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 aboard a…
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Trump said the US Navy would start escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz ‘very soon’ to restore oil exports.
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Exporters are urging the government to reduce the value-added tax on fuel and electricity as rising global oil prices linked to tensions in the Middle East…
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Government officials seeking effective ways to blunt the backlash of the Middle East war on domestic prices said the declaration of a state of national…
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There is strong reason to believe that government policy remains business as usual. The wealthy and large corporations are shielded, including the oil firms.
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Keeping too much cash in the bank as savings can also be counterproductive in an inflationary environment.
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We have no control over the drones and missiles or the diplomacy, but we can control our country’s readiness.
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