Pateros construction permit value jumps 64% despite dip
Residential projects lead increase as approved building permits decline
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Bad weather cuts Pinoys’ working hours, firms warned
Severe weather disruptions are cutting working hours and threatening take-home pay for Filipino workers, prompting HR solutions provider AscentHR to urge…
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PSA warns vs P200 National ID scheme
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Palawan has warned residents of Puerto Princesa City about reports of individuals offering ₱200 in exchange for…
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PSA warns against P200 National ID scanning offers
Palawan residents cautioned against sharing personal information amid reports of cash incentives for ID scans and facial photographs
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Palawan economy grows just 0.5% in 2025
Province records MIMAROPA's slowest economic expansion as Occidental Mindoro posts double-digit growth.
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Inflation, E-Wallets
Saving and investing are hard but necessary amid the threat of inflation.
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Philippine September inflation ties three-year high of 7.2%
The September print matched the three-year high recorded in April, when domestic pump prices felt the full force of the Middle East conflict’s impact on global…
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PSA flags almost 50K late birth registrations; senators warn of 'sleeper cells'
The Philippine Statistics Authority is auditing nearly 50,000 late birth registrations from 2010 to 2023 following warnings from senators that foreign…
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Hog output surges
Iloilo’s hog production rose 34.66 percent in the second quarter of 2026, helping boost meat supply and potentially contributing to lower pork prices.
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Youth job seekers swell as unemployment hits 6%
Philippine unemployment rose to 6 percent in July as 3.14 million Filipinos were jobless, while labor force participation increased and employment fell from…
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Defense: Fund names were aliases
Sara Duterte’s defense says 266 names on confidential fund receipts were aliases, while the PSA found no civil registry records for 63 percent of the names.
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Duterte camp acknowledges aliases in CIF receipts
Duterte’s defense team admits the 266 names on confidential fund receipts were aliases, not real identities, in a tense Senate impeachment hearing. Learn how…
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Inflation eases for 4th straight month, but stays above BSP target
Headline inflation eased for a fourth consecutive month to 6.1 percent in August, falling within the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)’s forecast range as food…
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Occidental Mindoro tops fastest-growing economies
The province led a group of 52 provinces and highly-urbanized cities that grew faster than the country’s 4.4-percent gross domestic product growth last year.…
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Domestic trade volume plunges 37.9% in Q2
Philippine domestic trade volume fell 37.9% in Q2 to 10.57 million tons, driven by a sharp decline in waterborne shipments, PSA data showed.
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Tinio blasts ‘fabricated’ Marcos poverty metrics
ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio questions the PSA’s 9.7-percent poverty rate, saying low thresholds fail to reflect rising prices, hunger, stagnant wages and…
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P96 a day: Who counts as poor?
The Philippines’ P96-a-day poverty threshold raises questions about whether official measures adequately reflect the real cost of food, housing, health care…
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