PHILIPPINE STAR/EDD GUMBANBy Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, ReporterKEY POLICY reforms in education, health, and labor among other sectors have been “disregarded” as focus shifted to the 2025 midterm elections and the widening rift between two of the country’s most influential political families, analysts said.Political observers
STOCK PHOTO | Image by wal_172619 from PixabayBy John Victor D. Ordoñez, ReporterPHILIPPINE LAWMAKERS should review the country’s wage-setting system and consider amending the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) of 2001 when Congress resumes session on Jan. 13 to ensure workers’ adequate pay amid
THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit is being held in Laos. — REVOLI S. CORTEZ/PPA POOLTHE Office of the President (OP) on Monday confirmed that it had gotten a P5-billion increase in the 2025 national budget as the Philippines is set to host
A MAGNITUDE 5.6 earthquake struck Luzon in the Philippines on Monday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said.The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), GFZ said.Philippine seismology agency Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said the tremor struck the
BUCORTHE Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) granted a fresh start to 1,000 prisoners released between November and December 2024, bringing the total number of convicts released this year to 7,707.In a statement on Monday, Director General Gregorio Pio P. Catapang, Jr. said of the newly released
RESCUE WORKERS take part in a salvage operation at the site where an aircraft crashed after it went off the runway at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Dec. 29, 2024. — REUTERS THE PHILIPPINE government must raise its safety aviation protocols such as
British companies are gearing up for a stronger start to 2025, with fresh data suggesting that the majority expect higher turnover and increased hiring in the new year—welcome news for Labour’s pledge to revive the country’s sluggish economic growth. Surveys from Lloyds and KPMG indicate that
MORE Filipino students are pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees in Europe because of extensive and specialized studies not offered in the Philippines.“It offers extensive and highly specialized studies from wine tourism to Copernicus space program to law and economics,” Thelma Gecolea, public affairs officer at
PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCASA POLITICAL GROUP on Monday raised concerns over the possibility that a government cash-aid program for poor workers could be used as a tool to engage in “vote-buying” for the upcoming 2025 midterm elections.Lawmakers should instead look at hiking workers’ minimum wages
STOCK PHOTO | Image by Klaus Hausmann from PixabayCOTABATO CITY — Policemen and soldiers arrested two senior leaders of the New People’s Army (NPA), wanted for high-profile criminal cases pending in courts, in a joint operation in Davao City on Saturday.The Catholic station DXMS in
TOYOTA.COM.PHBy Justine Irish D. Tabile, ReporterELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) sales are expected to grow next year with new entrants attracted by expanded fiscal incentives and the development of the charging network, Toyota Motor Philippines Corp. (TMP) said.“With the sustained effect of expanded fiscal incentives for hybrid
TRAVELORIENTALMINDORO.PHTHE Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) has issued a bid invitation to construct a P706.05-million cruise ship port in Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro.In a bid notice, the PPA said the winning contractor is required to build the project at the Poblacion site in Puerto Galera within