Economy

HOLCIM Philippines, Inc. has said it was working to resolve the labor dispute at its Misamis Oriental plant, adding that operations there…

PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS A CONGRESSMAN on Monday urged the Senate to pass a bill that will raise the share of local…

THE COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) does not expect to resolve all electoral lawsuits, including one that seeks to disqualify the only son…

REUTERS POOR people should get at least a gigabyte of free data a month, a senator said on Monday as she sought…

BW FILE PHOTO THE PESO strengthened versus the greenback on Monday as US inflation fell within expectations and bets that the Philippine…

REUTERS STOCKS inched higher on Monday as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) and US…

A garment factory in Myanmar. Image via IndustriALL Global Union/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 At a garment factory on the outskirts of Myanmar’s biggest…

UNSPLASH SEOUL — South Korea will soon roll out a pilot project to use artificial intelligence (AI), facial recognition, and thousands of…

TOKYO — When an aging racehorse, Makahiki, broke records by winning his first race in five years in Kyoto in early October,…

UNSPLASH Filipinos love a good deal, based on trends from Shopee’s 12.12 Christmas sale, which saw over 14 million vouchers claimed within…