MANILA: Local shares closed weak on Friday amid net foreign selling and the local currency’s depreciation against the dollar, which breached PHP56 during the trading.
The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed the week lower by 7.33 points at …
MANILA: Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has ordered a temporary halt to onion imports until May, possibly extending the suspension through July.
In a news release on Friday, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said the policy pronouncem…
MANILA: The National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) on Friday reiterated that more than four million indigent Filipino senior citizens will be entitled to receive the monthly social pension of PHP1,000 this January.
NCSC Chairperson Frank Quija…
LEGAZPI: An array of scheduled meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) is expected to bring the total of tourist arrivals in this city to 1.2 million this year, the Legazpi City Tourism Office (CTO) said Friday.
“We are hopeful we ca…
MANILA: The Philippine Chamber of Agriculture and Food Inc. (PCAFI) has proposed the scrapping of the minimum access volume (MAV) tariff-setting policy that designates lower duties to agricultural imports, saying a uniform 35-percent should be imposed…
MANILA: The Department of Agriculture (DA) has intensified its efforts to deal with armyworm infestation by providing aid to affected onion farmers in several towns in Nueva Ecija and Tarlac.
DA Regional Field Office III Bureau of Plant Industry dire…
MANILA: The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has set next week the public bidding for the acquisition of an internet voting system for the 2025 polls.
In its Invitation to Bid, the Comelec-Special Bids and Awards Committee (SBAC) said prospective bi…
SEOUL: To further help advance the digital transformation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, is supporting the Winter Youth Olympics Gangwon 2024 (Gangwon 202…
SAN JUAN: This province’s tourism and economy stand to benefit from its hosting of the World Surf League (WSL) International Pro at Urbiztondo Beach, to be attended by some 250 professional surfers from the Philippines and abroad on Jan. 22 to 28.
Pr…