Taiwan’s Presidential Office spokeswoman Garfie Li yesterday said that the Philippines will have to pay the price if it shows no sincerity in solving a dispute over the shooting of a Taiwanese sailor. The
More than 30 foreign observers are currently in the country to monitor the Philippines’ midterm elections. Organised by the Compact for Peaceful and Democratic Elections (Compact), the foreign observers attended the formal launching of
The Philippine government is spending 29 billion pesos (Bt20.7 billion) – 12 billion pesos this year and 17 billion pesos in 2014 – on a tourism infrastructure programme that will connect tourist spots to
STATE BORROWINGS dropped by more than half year-on-year in the first quarter as the government continued to trim down its external debt, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. The government borrowed a
WORKERS WERE LEFT empty-handed on Labor Day, not even getting the non-wage benefits earlier promised by officials or the traditional May Day greeting from President Benigno S. C. Aquino III. Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda
The Philippine government would unveil “nonwage” benefits on Labour Day, the Palace said yesterday, as it exhorted Filipinos to seize some 400,000 jobs in job fairs to be held Tuesday across the country. President Benigno
Filipino billionaire Lucio Tan’s LT Group Inc. LTG.PH +5.22% raised 37.72 billion Philippine pesos ($912.2 million) in the country’s largest ever equity sale, benefiting from a stock market that has boomed just weeks after the
Philippine President Benigno Aquino III on Tuesday vowed closer cooperation with visiting Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah and other regional leaders to find a peaceful solution to territorial conflicts in the South China
The Philippine Palace Sunday said the schedule of the Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah during his two-day visit to the country this week was “too tight” to accommodate a meeting with Sulu Sultan
It would seem that electronic cigarettes, which are being promoted as a healthier substitute for tobacco, may just be as harmful as the real thing. The Philippines’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday