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ArticleNEW DBM CHIEF: NEVER AGAIN A FLOOD SCANDAL

ArticleDRAWING THE LINE ON PRICES

Rice retailer Eddie Pas­cual pre­pares P50-per-kilo price tags at the Marikina Pub­lic Mar­ket in Marikina City on Wed­nes­day, May 20, 2026, fol­low­ing a Depart­ment of Agri­cul­ture advis­ory. The adjust­ment comes amid the imple­ment­a­tion of...

ArticleYouth, nat­ural wealth key to ‘poly-crisis’–ecop

AMID a “poly-crisis” caused by inter­sect­ing chal­lenges affect­ing job gen­er­a­tion and skills devel­op­ment, the Employ­ers Con­fed­er­a­tion of the Phil­ip­pines (ECOP) called for ini­ti­at­ives that tap into the poten­tial of the coun­try’s young...

Article2-per­cent­age pt boost to growth from sci­ence

SCIENCE and innov­a­tion could provide up to a 2-per­cent­age point boost to Phil­ip­pine eco­nomic growth even as the Middle East crisis threatens to fur­ther slow the eco­nomy this year, accord­ing to the Depart­ment of Sci­ence and Tech­no­logy (DOST).

ArticleDISCLOSURE OF SUSTAINABILITY DATA BY LISTED BANKS EYED

THE Bangko Sen­t­ral ng Pilip­i­nas (BSP) may start requir­ing pub­licly lis­ted banks to dis­close “sus­tain­ab­il­ity-related” fin­an­cial inform­a­tion by 2027. In a draft cir­cu­lar, the cent­ral bank released a set of pro­posed guidelines on the...

ArticleTEARS IN THE CHAMBER

Sen­ator Pia Cayetano weeps dur­ing the Sen­ate plen­ary ses­sion on Wed­nes­day, May 20, 2026. Cayetano said the trauma from the May 13 shoot­ing inside the Sen­ate con­tin­ues to affect her, her peers, and their staff. She was react­ing to Sen­ator...

ArticleSUSTAINABLE STEPS FORWARD

Depart­ment of Trade and Industry Sec­ret­ary Cristina Roque joins busi­ness lead­ers at the 47th National Con­fer­ence of Employ­ers held at The Manila Hotel on Wed­nes­day, May 20, 2026. The annual gath­er­ing, organ­ized by the Employ­ers...

ArticleSerial shocks dash dreams of ‘high-income eco­nomy’

BEYOND the infla­tion spikes and slow­ing growth triggered by the pro­longed Middle East con­flict lies a harsher eco­nomic reck­on­ing: the Phil­ip­pines’s long-fad­ing ambi­tion of becom­ing a high-income eco­nomy by 2040 may now be effect­ively out...