PLAINTIFFS challenging unprogrammed appropriations told the Supreme Court (SC) that the budget mechanism allows billions of pesos to move outside constitutional guardrails, weakening fiscal discipline ...

The Philippine insurance industry closed 2025 on a historic note, marked by strong premium growth, rising assets, and improved penetration. More than a year of recovery, 2025 became a period of ...

MERALCO POWERGEN CORP. (MGen), the power generation arm of Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), is set to develop a 49-megawatt (MW) battery energy storage system (BESS) in Toledo, Cebu, which is expected ...

It is obvious that the Philippine Government is struggling to comply with the constitutional mandate that the State is obliged to provide free quality education at the basic education level for all ...

Agentic AI is now 10x faster and a fraction of the cost of human labor. A billing model built around hours of human time is no longer just inefficient — it is structurally incompatible with the ...

CITY OF SAMAL — Island Garden City of Samal (IGaCoS) Mayor Al David Uy said on Friday that the local government unit (LGU)has incurred P120 million to P150 million in economic losses annually due to ...

What is Pax Silica? Pax Silica is a US-led international coalition of investors launched in December 2025 for the purpose of establishing a global supply chain for semi-conductors, artificial ...

My take on the development experience of nations is that all progress boils down to investment — specifically on the share of income that the nation sets aside for investment or what is called the ...

In our earlier article, “Removal of the 5-Year Validity of Receipts and Invoices,” I explained that the Philippine tax system is mostly driven by supporting documents and that the deductibility of ...

Philippine housing prices increased in the second quarter as consumers were less pessimistic about purchasing residential properties, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported. The BSP’s ...

BUSINESSES in four major destinations are complaining that unreliable power is costing them up to hundreds of thousands of pesos a day, according to ILAW, a non-government organization representing ...

Transportation is an essential part of Filipinos’ daily lives, from going to work and school to transporting goods that fuel the economy. For 126 years, the Department of Transportation (DoTr) has ...