Demonstrators walk on the street during a protest in Hong Kong. PAUL YEUNG/BLOOMBERG

Hong Kong falls into first recession in 10 years

HONG KONG – Hong Kong slid into recession for the first time in a decade in the third quarter, weighed down by increasingly violent anti-government protests...
Senator Imee Marcos

DTI’s plan to import rice for fast food chains ‘insensitive’ – Marcos

THE government’s plan to import rice on behalf of fast food chains, grocery stores, and small supermarkets, instead of buying local, is insensitive, Senator Imee Marcos...
As the leading home improvement and construction supply retailer in the Philippines, Wilcon Depot continuously joins exhibits, trade fairs and exhibitions to showcase its vast selection of topnotch products to more Filipinos.

Wilcon showcases topnotch products at Philconstruct 2019

EXHIBITING its wide array of home building products, Wilcon Depot participated in the PHILCONSTRUCT: 30th Philippine International Construction Equipment, Building Materials, Interior & Exterior Products Exhibition and...

Central bank cuts average inflation projection for 2019

MANILA – The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) policy-making Monetary Board (MB) on Thursday lowered the central bank’s average inflation to 2.4 percent from the forecast...

BSP keeps key rates unchanged

MANILA – Philippine monetary officials on Thursday kept key rates unchanged as expected in the forecast within-target inflation rate until 2021. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) deputy governor...

Ilonggo workers urged to know EC benefits

ILOILO City – Employees’ Compensation Commission (ECC) encouraged all workers to know employees’ compensation benefits and observe obedience to occupational safety and health policies in their workplace...

Alibaba says HK’s ‘future is bright’ as it presses on secondary listing

ALIBABA Group chairman Daniel Zhang said Hong Kong’s “future is bright” as the company presses on with its secondary listing in the city gripped by increasingly...

DTI seeks P300M to support law providing benefits for startups

MANILA – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is pushing a P300-million budget for the implementation next year of a new law providing incentives to...

Trump’s more tariffs threat could hit consumer goods before Christmas

WASHINGTON – United States (US) president Donald Trump’s threat to jack up US tariffs on Chinese goods if the world’s two largest economies fail to reach...
The Department of Agriculture will implement stricter sanitary and pythosanitary measures on the issuance of import clearance to address the huge entry of imported rice and curb poor quality rice imports. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

DA to impose stricter measures to address huge entry of imported rice

MANILA – The Department of Agriculture (DA) will be implementing stricter sanitary and pythosanitary (SPS) measures on the issuance of import clearance to address the huge entry...