South East Asia

Ayala Land (ALI) takes pride in its beautiful landscape and lush greenery. The estate landscape development master plan capitalizes on green and open spaces that require at least 500 trees and 150,000 shrubs each year, and need an estimate of 8,000 new tr...

MANILA, Philippines — The Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in China is the world's most improved airport in 2023, as released by London-based international air rating firm Skytrax. The award, according to Skytrax, "analyzes an airpo...

SINGAPORE Oil prices were little changed on Friday after a meeting between Saudi Arabia and Russia calmed markets, but crude benchmarks were still headed for a second weekly fall after a banking crisis sparked a sell-off in global financial markets this w...

MANILA, Philippines The Bureau of Customs (BOC) is doubling down on the campaign against the smuggling of agricultural products as the Marcos administration earmarked P42.8 billion in this year's national budget to help firm up domestic farm output. C...

MANILA Philippine Deposit Insurance Corp. (PDIC) generated P1.46 billion from corporate and closed-bank assets sold last year as part of its asset disposal program, 327 percent better than the sale proceeds recorded in 2021. In a statement, PDIC reported ...

The Aboitiz Group launched on Wednesday Fresh Depot, touted as the first physical and digital solutions platform to help farmers reduce harvest waste while optimizing crop yield, in Benguet province. In a statement, the listed conglomerate said the first ...

MANILA, Philippines — Singapore Changi Airport reclaimed its spot as the world's best airport, while no Philippine airport made it to the 2023 World Airport Survey's 100 best airports across the globe. Changi overtook Hamad International Air...

MANILA, Philippines The Asian Institute of Management (AIM) and the University of Houston (UH) are offering a double-degree undergraduate program specializing in data science and management information systems (MIS) in the advent of increased adoption of ...

MANILA, Philippines PLDT Inc. sold 1,012 towers for over P12.1 billion, its fourth transaction of this kind, to Frontier Tower Associates Philippines in line with the telco giant's asset-light strategy. On Friday, the listed company said it had signed...

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. on Thursday said rice at P20 per kilo, which was one of his campaign promises, will soon become a reality. He issued the remark during the launching of the "Kadiwa ng Pangul...

WASHINGTON -More than 50 U.S. agriculture and food groups on Thursday urged Congress to approve new legislation enabling the United States to negotiate more free-trade agreements, arguing that without them American agriculture was falling behind global co...

NEW YORK -Banks sought record amounts of emergency liquidity from the Federal Reserve over recent days in the wake of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, which in turn helped undo months of central bank efforts to shrink the size of its...

The United States' first NFT-themed restaurant, Bored and Hungry, opened its first Asia branch at The Grid Food Market, Makati City. It first had a pop-up location at the Marriott Hotel in November 2022 to promote Philippine Blockchain Week. Then, it ...

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In the news again are clamors for the belated compensation and apologies due to Filipino comfort women/sex slaves, now aging and fewer in number, who suffered at the hands of the Japanese military in World War II. A flashback here: When going north via Sa...

ZURICH, Switzerland Credit Suisse rallied on the stock market Thursday after grabbing a $54 -billion central bank lifeline in a bid to restore investor confidence but analysts remain wary about the major lender's future. Shares in Switzerland's se...

NEW YORK Wall Street rallied Thursday after a consortium of US private banks announced a $30-billion rescue package for First Republic, while European stocks jumped on a European Central Bank's interest rate decision that was called a "dovish hike...

Large U.S. banks injected $30 billion in deposits into First Republic Bank on Thursday, swooping in to rescue the lender caught up in a widening crisis triggered by the collapse of two other mid-size U.S. lenders over the past week. Banking stocks globall...

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol Boholanos on Thursday, March 16, 2o23, commemorated the 458th year of the blood compact, which marked the celebration of friendship and unity between the natives led by Datu Sikatuna and the Spaniards led by General Miguel Lopez de ...

TEAM Philippines will be 1,233-strong—905 athletes and 257 officials—in the 32nd Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) that Cambodia is hosting from May 5 to 17, 2023. Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) President Rep. Abraham "Bambol" Tolentino...

MATHILDA KROG got herself atop the intermediate podium and Team Philippines booked its best finish so far in the penultimate Stage 9 of the 13th Biwase Cup in Vietnam on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Krog, a mainstay of the Philippine Navy-Standard Insurance ...

SAN FRANCISCO Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment. A paper authored by Meta's Ben Nimmo and Eric Hutchins details how to create a "kill chain" ...

Don't despair when you feel weary and heavy laden for you can soon find some rest 24/7 at a chapel the Archdiocese of Manila will be building inside the Our Lady of Guadalupe Minor Seminary on busy Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Makati City. Manila ...

Transport group Piston on Thursday called for a "careful" and "fair" implementation of the government's plan to use the P2-billion budget for fare discounts, saying that the disbursement of funds should not be limited to consolidated e...

The primary movers of Charter change (Cha-cha) at the House of Representatives took exception on Thursday to Senate President Miguel Zubiri's suspicion that the delayed approval of implementing rules and regulations (IRR) for three vital laws aimed at...

The Supreme Court has declared constitutional the orders issued by the then Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), now the Department of Transportation (DOTr), and the Land Transportation Office (LTO), imposing stiffer penalties on operat...

Interment services are covered by the 20-percent discount on funeral and burial expenses provided by the Senior Citizens Act and its amending laws, according to the Supreme Court. In a full-court session, the high tribunal, in a decision penned by Associa...

The chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) of the Philippine National Police on Thursday said he had relieved 13 officers of its National Capital Region (NCR) unit pending an investigation of allegations that they robbed and extort...

Immediately after winning a championship, Rald Ricafort packed his bags and switched to a different team. He was sold, he said, on the youth movement of PLDT and decided to pitch camp there.He has circled back to his former team again, this time as its se...

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) on Thursday filed criminal complaints at the Department of Justice against four "ghost corporations" selling fake receipts that deprived the national government of some P26 billion in revenues for the years 201...

MANILA, Philippines — Philippine vlogger Rosanel Demasudlay holds a heart-shaped "virginity soap" bar in front of the camera and assures her hundreds of YouTube followers it can be safely used to "tighten" their vaginas. The video is...

Twenty years have passed since Letran had won the NCAA high school basketball championship. And 40 years had flown by since the school took the boys' and mens' basketball crown on the same year.The count is back to zero.The Squires bagged the crow...

With a classroom backlog of more than 165,000 at the end of 2022, the Department of Education (DepEd) is looking at other funding sources outside the national budget to fill up the severe gap affecting millions of public school students, Education Underse...

Terrence Romeo quietly made his return after another injury, something which could serve San Miguel Beer well with June Mar Fajardo out.And coach Jorge Gallent has broken in the former Philippine Basketball Association scoring champion---all three minutes...

The Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday assured the public that there would be no power outages in the summer months because the supply of electricity is sufficient despite the expected leaner reserves. "For now, we're not saying that we alread...

Hannah Mae Oray, the secretary of Negros Oriental Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr., was released from police custody on Wednesday, March 15, after the Department of Justice (DOJ) found no evidence linking her to the firearms and explosives seized from the lawmaker&...

Microsoft Corp on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put artificial intelligence into the hands of more users, answering a spate of unveilings this week by its rival Google with upgrades to its own widely used office software. The technology company p...

MANILA, Philippines — Central banks, including the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), might go more dovish following the failure of two banks in the United States, according to Goldman Sachs. The economic research team at the US-based financial serv...

MANILA, Philippines Telecommunications giant PLDT Inc. has entered into an agreement to buy the broadband business of Sky Cable Corp. from the Lopez group for P6.75 billion, in keeping with the Manuel V. Pangilinan-led company's mission to expand the ...

MANILA, Philippines -ACEN Corp. is ramping up efforts to expand its footprint in the United States after it acquired eight wind projects in Texas, the Ayala-led company announced on Thursday. In a stock exchange disclosure, ACEN said it had signed a purch...

Water concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc. plans to spend P178 billion in the next 23 years to expand its wastewater management and mitigate the pollution of water bodies. In a statement, Maynilad said the amount would be used until 2046 to fund th...

MANILA, Philippines -Airline tickets are set to become cheaper next month, after the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) reduced the fuel surcharge that local airlines are allowed to collect. In a recent advisory, the CAB said the fuel surcharge will be lowered...

MANILA The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) struggled anew on Thursday as large banks were sold down while United States and Swiss monetary authorities moved to stabilize their private financial institutions. The PSEi tumbled 0.95 percent,...

Aside from the recent apprehensions—commendable!—done by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Department of Agriculture (the latter headed by Assistant Secretary James Layug), two additional systems are needed to suppress rampant smuggling. One...

MANILA Consumer finance provider Home Credit Philippines (HCPH) on Thursday said it was looking to serve 10 million customers in 2023, marking a major milestone in its nearly 10 years in existence. "[We] aim to empower 10 million customers within 2023...

Do you believe that the company you're working for is one of the best in the country? If yes, then you can show your pride by nominating your company to be included in the coming list of the Philippines' Best Employers 2024. The Philippines' B...

It looks like things are coming to a head at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club, and it looks like things will become a lot more "interesting"; in the coming weeks. According to one source, an emergency meeting was called this week by the club's b...

Converge ICT Solutions Inc. is cutting back on its capital expenditures (capex) this year after spending upfront costs to widen its network as it projects double-digit growth in revenues anew, driven by residential and enterprise segments. Maria Grace Uy,...

Christine Fajardo is the head of communications and engagement at Novartis in the Philippines and the Asia Aspiring Innovative Medicines Cluster. Novartis is the world's second largest drug company. Prior to joining Novartis, she was senior vice presi...

The gender digital divide is a global issue that is reinforced by existing socioeconomic gaps and negatively impacts women's economic empowerment. Women account for only 24 percent of enrollment in information and communications technology (ICT) cours...