Economy

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…

REUTERS LONDON — Britain faces a “tidal wave” of the Omicron variant of coronavirus and two vaccine doses will not be enough…

Major global companies are facing pressure to fix what experts are calling one of the most serious software flaws in recent memory….

RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin. — REUTERS MOSCOW — Russia is the global leader in hypersonic missiles and, by the time other countries…

With the pandemic, industries have shifted from ‘business as usual’ to ‘business unusual’, operating under several constraints yet finding ways to innovate,…