The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is sticking with its measured approach to monetary policy easing, likely reducing key policy rates gradually by 50 basis points (bps) this year.  BSP Governor Eli ...

AT least 40 social media personalities have been invited as resource persons in the first congressional hearing investigating the spread of fake news and disinformation in the country. The hearing, ...

Public health data disappeared from websites, entire webpages went blank and employees erased pronouns from email signatures Friday as federal agencies scrambled to comply with a directive tied to ...

President Donald Trump has targeted transgender and nonbinary people with a series of executive orders since he returned to office. He has done it with strong language. In one executive order, he ...

A SENIOR lawmaker said “trimming the fat” through the passage of the government rightsizing bill before the end of the 19th Congress will eliminate overlapping functions, enhance government efficiency ...

THE Department of Justice (DOJ) has held that establishments cannot deny or withhold discounts or privileges to a person with disability (PWD) due to doubts on the authenticity of his or her PWD ...

Emperador Inc. said its Mexican unit Casa Pedro Domecq has acquired 60 percent of Destileria Los Danzantes S.A. de C.V. for 80 million Mexican pesos or about P226 million.  Los Danzantes owns premium ...

IT is always enlightening to examine the footnotes in a court decision, as they illuminate the reasoning behind judicial verdicts and deepen our understanding of how courts resolve legal disputes.

WHEN I was just starting in the public relations industry several decades ago, there was one big name that kept looming in my field of awareness which probably struck and influenced me in a major way ...

PHILIPPINE exporters of hard goods and garments are hoping for the reauthorization of the United States’ Generalized Scheme of Preference (GSP) and the start of negotiations for a free trade agreement ...

The administration’s allocation of nearly one-fifth of the national budget to pork barrel projects over the past three years, as cited by a watchdog, is a blatant disregard of the pressing needs of ...

THE Philippine Egg Board Association (PEBA) assured the public of sufficient egg supply for the year amid concerns about a possible shortage of the cheapest protein source. This, after Agriculture ...