Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, ...

TORONTO—Mark Carney’s political career is only months old, and it’s already been a roller-coaster ride. The former central banker appeared destined to become one of Canada’s shortest-serving prime ...

THE country’s consumption of sugar alternatives will surge by 47 percent this marketing year, or half of the projected 2.2 million metric tons (MMT) raw sugar consumption, an international agency said ...

While the Philippines’s debt-to-GDP ratio is starting to stabilize and tax revenues continue to grow, rising amortization and structural pressures threaten to strain the country’s moderate fiscal ...

SOME 1.72 million Filipinos traveled abroad in the first quarter of the year, exceeding the 1.65 million foreign tourists who arrived in the country in the same period. Data from the Department of ...

MANILA is now eyeing to forge more investment deals with Taiwan by easing the travel and agreements restrictions for Philippine government officials with the self-governing island. In his two-page ...

I HAVE always been a big supporter of “Learning by Doing.” Not because I was kicked out of school at the age of 16. It’s because I learned by doing at every career step I made. From my apprenticeship ...

AN official of the National Commission on Indigenous People (NCIP) said vast tracts of land in the Marikina Watershed are covered with Certificates of Ancestral Domain Title (CADT), including the ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) has revived its livestock data group to stabilize the country’s meat supply. Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. signed Special Order 599, which ...

More than 3.46 million travelers used the ports, as well as the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, during the Holy Week break. The Manila International Airport Authority and the New Naia Infra Corp., ...

A GROUP of farmers from barangay Balogo, Oas, Albay, has secured a loan for rice and corn production through the support of the Department of Agrarian Reform Provincial Office (Darpo). The Panala ...

AT least four candidates may have violated the campaign ban during Holy Week, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Monday. In an interview, Comelec Chairman George Erwin M. Garcia said that all ...