THE Senate on Tuesday approved the 2014 budget proposals of the Department of Finance (DOF), Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Labor and Empl..

About 130 million people in Southeast Asia or one in five people in the region lack access to electricity, according to a study by the Philippine Inst..

Across the 10-nation Asean region, an estimated 130 million people lack access to electricity–and 16 million of them, comprising 12 percent of the t..

WITH the country increasingly bullish about its economic prospects and recording growth rates that are the best in the region, it’s time the country..

renewable energy systems in a bid to accelerate the elimination of energy poverty. This suggestion was made by a study published by the Philippine Ins..

THE Philippines and other Asean members should continue and expand cooperation on off-grid and decentralized renewable energy systems in a bid to acce..

DAMAGES on agriculture caused by Super Typhoon Yolanda in Northern Mindanao and Visayas are still under assessment, said Department of Agriculture (D..

The Philippines’ factory output jumped by 16.3 percent in September, the fastest recorded since May, due to the three-digit increases in the product..

Significant reforms that encourage healthy competition would lead to an improved and more competitive maritime sector in the Philippines, according to..

The focus of the Bureau of Customs should be on trade facilitation and the modernization of customs administration, instead of its revenue collection ..

Ayala Corp. managing director and head of the conglomerate’s energy investments Eric Francia said AC Energy Holdings Inc., the group’s holding com..

Oscar F. Picazo, senior health research consultant of the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), has revealed a worsening health conditi..

Access to quality higher education is essential for young people to have a bright future. Quality and cost often go hand in hand, making opportunitie..

INSTEAD of looking at it as a threat, the integration of Southeast Asian economies in 2015 should be viewed as an opportunity to seize, speakers told ..

The Aquino administration’s proposed 2014 budget for its flagship conditional cash transfer program for the country’s poorest of the poor has trip..