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MANILA, Philippines — Vice President Sara Duterte on Wednesday assured her supporters that her rejected request for confidential funds was minuscule compared to the tough economic times brought by the continued surge in prices.
Elon Musk has kicked off his plan to charge users of X, formerly known as Twitter, to post content to the social network. As of Oct. 17, 2023, X said in a post on its website that it has started testing “Not A Bot,” a new subscription tier for new users in two countries: the Philippines and New Zealand.
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Railways (PNR) will cease all of its passenger services in Metro Manila by January 2024 to give way to the civil works for the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR).
COTABATO CITY — Officials on Monday burned P30.2 million worth of narcotics the courts had used as evidence in the prosecution of traffickers entrapped in separate operations in recent years.
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Tuesday pressed the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to complete and release the results of its "long promised" reset of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for both transmission and distribution charges, which have directly contributed to rising power costs.
The Triple Lock will determine the level of uprating to be applied to the State Pension for the 2024/25 financial year and pays the highest between September’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate, earnings growth, or 2.5 per cent. The frontrunner for the uprating is currently earnings growth, which came in at 8.5 per cent (including employee bonuses) for the period between May and July.
OIL companies lowered the prices of diesel and kerosene but raised the cost of gasoline on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023.
ACHIEVING rice self-sufficiency will have to take a while as population growth continues to outpace productivity improvements, an Agriculture department official said on Monday.