The Philippine central bank is forecasting the country’s current account deficit to narrow to 3.3% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year and to 2.5% next year, compared to a previous estimate of 3 ...

The Philippine government’s modernization efforts are receiving global recognition at the GovMedia Awards 2025 in Singapore where the eGovPH Super App won the E-Governance Project of the Year and ...

TOKYO – The house that property consultant and ghost investigator Kazutoshi Kodama regularly surveys has a grim history: seven years ago, an elderly woman hanged herself in the bathroom and last year ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Republicans are moving forward on President Donald Trump‘s sweeping tax-cut and spending bill that includes major elements of his domestic agenda. The Senate advanced the bill ...

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had signed a decree to pull Ukraine out of the Ottawa Convention banning the production and use of anti-personnel mines as a necessary step in ...

China has rolled over $3.4 billion in loans to Pakistan, two senior Pakistani government officials told Reuters on Sunday, in a move that will help boost Islamabad’s foreign exchange reserves, a ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Fox News interview broadcast on Sunday that he had found a buyer for the ...

HEADLINE INFLATION may have slightly picked up in June as stable food prices helped offset the spike in fuel prices, analysts said. A BusinessWorld poll of 17 analysts yielded a median estimate of 1.5 ...

BUSINESS SENTIMENT in the Philippines turned less upbeat in the second quarter amid concerns over the impact of the Trump administration’s tariff policy on the economy, a survey by the Bangko Sentral ...

THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) is aiming to launch the multi-year Tatak Pinoy Strategy before President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) in late July. “It is ...

Malaysia launched the Startup ASEAN platform, marking the full-scale rollout of a bold, unified digital gateway to connect and empower startups across ASEAN.