Economy

PHILSTAR THE SUPREME Court upheld a 2012 ruling of the Commission on Audit (CoA) that disallowed the travel expenses of the then…

REUTERS LONDON — Soaring food prices pushed British consumer price inflation to a 40-year high of 9.1% last month, the highest rate…

FREEPIK THE BIDEN administration plans to propose a rule to establish a maximum nicotine level in cigarettes and other finished tobacco products…

REUTERS JAKARTA — Indonesian President and G20 chairman Joko Widodo will visit counterparts in Ukraine and Russia next week and press for…

PATRICK ASSALE AND FUSION MEDICAL ANIMATION-UNSPLASH The recent rise in the number of COVID cases is a not-so-gentle reminder that the pandemic…

ALEXANDER KRIVITSKIY-UNSPLASH THE WORLD has an obsession with Japan’s shrinking population. Each year, news that the country is a little bit smaller…

MICK DE PAOLA-UNSPLASH Several days ago, the controversial Saudi Public Investment Fund-financed LIV Golf Invitational Series crowned its first winner, 37-year-old South…

FILTERGRADE-UNSPLASH WITH THE RISE of social media and blogs as now the primary source of information and news (over 65%) for the…

UNSPLASH Filipino consumers still prefer human support even if automation is on the rise. According to a May 2022 Forrester Consulting study,…

Photo by Marc Nozell/Flickr/CC BY 2.0 WASHINGTON — The US Senate took an initial step towards passing the country’s first major gun-control…