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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

THE campaign period officially commenced on Tuesday, with candidates from the senatorial race and party-list groups launching their respective campaigns nationwide. The administration’s Senate slate, ...

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

Beyond U.S. tariff worries, domestic macro data such as the IIP, CPI & WPI inflation, and manufacturing PMI will be keenly ...

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 ...

After more than 50 years with conglomerate San Miguel Corp., Ferdinand K. Constantino finally put down his finance whiz hat.

The Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) is an important program for the government’s bid to bring down poverty rates in ...