In the Philippines, around 1.9% of the working population are in extreme poverty or living below the poverty line of $2.15 a day last year, up from the 0.55% in 2023, according to the International ...

Are the 156 party-lists vying for seats in the 20th Congress truly representative of marginalized and underrepresented ...

The Panay-Negros-Guimaras Crab Fishers Alliance joins the outcry, expressing disappointment over the SC ruling which the ...

In 25 years, the Philippines suffered massive declines on three fronts: 1) in the output and growth rate of agriculture, once the economy’s mainstay and biggest employer; 2) in economic growth, down ...

LAOAG CITY, Ilocos Norte – Former senator Manny Pacquiao officially launched his senatorial campaign here on Tuesday, ...

DECEMBER 2024 came to a close with hardly any harbinger of good tidings and very few reasons to hope for a better, more ...

Catholic Relief Services and Caritas agencies throughout the world are warning that the Trump administration's freezing of ...

A majority of the frontrunners in the party-list race for the upcoming elections do not represent the poor and marginalized sector, election watchdog Kontra Daya revealed yesterday. In a recent report ...

Kontra Daya finds that dozens of party-list groups in the upcoming elections have links to political dynasties and big ...

It is exhausting to stay focused on what I believe should be our nation’s real concerns when the environment is consumed by political drama rather than the pressing challenges to governance and ...

The Philippine’s GDP grew at 5.6% for the whole year of 2024, pulled down by the usual non-performer and Achilles heel of the Philippine economy, the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (AFF) sector ...

CORY Aquino finance secretary Jesus Estanislao said the wish of President Marcos for the Philippines to attain an upper middle income country (Umic) status this year is not feasible. Estanislao, who ...