The Philippine jobless rate rose to 4.7% in April from a year earlier, while underemployment climbed to a nearly three-year high of 15.2%, signaling continued weakness in the labor market. Data from ...

SUPER BOWL LX was the second-most watched show in United States TV history and set a domestic record for peak viewership, the NFL revealed on Tuesday. Sunday’s game in Santa Clara, California, where ...

The US said it struck Iranian military sites over the weekend and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Monday it had targeted a US base in response, the latest in a series of exchanges amid ...

THE Department of Energy (DoE) is projecting more grid alerts in the second half of the year, as the El Niño dry spell takes hold, pushing up power demand. At a briefing on Monday, Energy ...

FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS in the Philippines are falling behind their counterparts in some Southeast Asian countries in reading, writing and mathematics, with a significant percentage of students still ...

By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Senior Reporter THE National Government’s (NG) outstanding debt rose to a fresh record high of P18.49 trillion as of end-March, driven partly by the peso’s depreciation, ...

The Philippines’ manufacturing value added dropped to 15.7% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2024, one of the lowest in the East Asia & Pacific region, according to the World Bank data. It trailed ...

THE pilot stage of the market for reserve power has been launched, with full commercial operations targeted for later in the month, the Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said it reached agreement with the pork industry to set a minimum farmgate price of P210 per kilogram for hogs on a liveweight basis. The floor price is designed to ...

MERALCO POWERGEN CORP. (MGen), the power generation arm of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), is set to develop a 49-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Toledo, Cebu, which is expected ...