Gov’t continues push for economic reforms
MANILA – President
Rodrigo Duterte’s administration will continue pushing for “effective” economic
reforms to achieve its six percent to seven percent growth target for 2019,
Presidential Communications...
Indonesia’s Lion Air finds cracks in 2 Boeing 737 NGs
JAKARTA/WASHINGTON – Lion Air has found
structural cracks in two Boeing Co. 737 NG planes with fewer flights than a United
States’ Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)...
Duterte proposes ban on plastic
MANILA – Philippine President Rodrigo
Duterte has proposed banning plastic, his spokesman said on Thursday, which
could provide the impetus needed for the Congress of one...
Decade-long drought in Chile wipes out hives, bees are left without flowers
CASABLANCA, Chile – Beekeeper Pablo
Alvarez squats beside his backyard hives and points upward into a cloudless
Chilean sky. Bees come and go along the line...
Italy includes climate change in school curricula
ROME – Italy will become the first country in the world to add climate
change to public school science programs, said the country’s education minister
on...
2019 GDP target still achievable – Diokno
MANILA – Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) governor Benjamin Diokno
believes that achieving the government’s six to seven percent growth target for
2019 is “still doable”...
Road, bridge construction underway to benefit Iloilo sugar mill industry
ILOILO City–The Department of
Public Works and Highways (DPWH), Iloilo 2nd District Engineering Office, in
convergence with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), is currently
constructing...
Global debt reaches record-high $188T – IMF
GLOBAL debt has reached a record high
$188 trillion, or about 230 percent of the world’s economic output,
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva said...
PH’s Q3 economic growth lifts peso, stocks
MANILA – Better-than-expected
growth of the Philippine economy in the third quarter of 2019 lifted both the
Philippine peso and the local bourse Thursday.
The peso ended
the...
Inflation slowdown seen to boost Philippine economy
MANILA – Public can expect faster economic growth in the country after
consumer prices fell to its lowest level in more than three years in...