
SBMA pushes fee cuts countering energy crisis fallout
Subic Bay Freeport — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is moving to implement a sweeping financial relief package for workers and businesses to…
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Subic Bay Freeport — The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) is moving to implement a sweeping financial relief package for workers and businesses to…
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Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC) is reassessing its expansion and spending plans after first-quarter net income plunged nearly 39 percent, as surging input costs…
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PARIS (AFP) — The world may be headed for a year of unusually severe wildfires driven by climate change and a potentially strong El Niño event, researchers…
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The management of Crimson Resort and Spa Mactan owes one thing to the previous Covid-19 pandemic — the preparedness it instilled in them to face another crisis.
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Climate change can no longer be treated as a stand-alone environmental concern.
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NABLUS, Palestinian Territories (AFP) — Under the bleachers of a West Bank stadium, a dozen men from Gaza live in a former changing room, blocked from…
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Around two in three Filipino families fail to earn a living wage amid inflation and rising oil prices, according to the IBON Foundation.
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More than 1,200 hectares of farmland surrounding Mayon Volcano may have been affected by ashfall following a pyroclastic density current (PDC) that flowed down…
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The summit focused heavily on three priorities: Energy security, food security and the safety of ASEAN nationals abroad.
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Across the region, governments should resist the temptation to simply subsidize their way through the crisis.
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MACTAN, Cebu — Trade Secretary Cristina Roque has urged economic ministers to take a timely and practical approach in the Middle East crisis, which has been…
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MACTAN, Cebu — As the Middle East war continues, and tariff woes remain, investors in the ASEAN region are more cautious, Philippine Trade and Industry…
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External debt, meanwhile, jumped 4.81 percent to P5.95 trillion from P5.68 trillion, as the peso’s depreciation inflated the peso equivalent of foreign…
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‘We’ve had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it’s very possible that we’ll make a deal.’
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Amid the global energy problem brought about by the Middle East crisis, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations gather in Cebu tomorrow, May 8,…
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Petron Corp.’s first-quarter net income fell 56 percent to P1.8 billion from P4 billion a year earlier, dragged by refinery disruptions and a sharp surge in…
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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has ordered measures to bring down rice prices as inflation surged, with officials citing rising fuel costs — not supply…
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LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — ASEAN leaders will convene this week to a scaled-down, “bare bones” setup as tensions in the Middle East have forced a shift in both the…
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