Philippines

MANILA: The best stock fund in the Philippines is putting its cash to work, betting the rally in local shares...

MANILA: Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc. (PhilExport) has welcomed the inclusion of an “enhanced value-added tax (VAT) refund system” for export...

MANILA: National Food Authority (NFA) Administrator Jason Y. Aquino has moved to allow the entry of private-sector rice imports until...

MANILA: Agriculture is expected to post another record growth in the second quarter of the year due to the introduction...

MANILA: The country’s key fiscal indicators improved in the first three months of the year as the rise in state...

PHILIPPINE: The Philippines is keeping the quantitative restriction on rice purchases in place for three more years, limiting supplies from...

MANILA: The Philippines hopes to rein in value-added tax breaks, which are costing the Government an estimated PHP90.7 billion (USD1.82...

MANILA: The ongoing crackdown on the drugs trade in the Philippines has seen the arrests of 74,650 suspects so far,...

MANILA: The House of Representatives will approve on second reading next week the bill imposing a P6 tax on diesel,...

MANILA: GT Capital Holdings, Inc. achieved a core net income from January to March 2017 of P3.2 billion from P2.8...

MANILA: At least 118,500 bags of rice from Thailand valued at P237 million not covered by import permits were apprehended...

MANILA: The Philippines’ foreign exchange reserves rose to USD 81.82 billion in April 2017, which the central bank traced partly...

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) seized a hundred units of Nokia 3310 (2017) phones along with chargers at the...

MANILA: The Philippines has exported 1.7 billion Euros worth of goods to the European Union (EU) last year under a...

MANILA: Three high-end used cars shipped from Korea were seized by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) in Subic, Zambales. Customs...

MANILA: The Philippines economy can be expected to grow faster than initially projected on the added boost of an export...

MANILA: A complaint has been initiated by the Bureau of Customs against the builder of Iglesia ni Cristo’s (INC) Philippine...

JAKARTA: President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo is expected to try and fortify maritime security cooperation with the Philippines during bilateral talks...

MANILA: The government should help local mango producers ramp up their production and go into value adding if it is...

OTTAWA: As offers of development funding from China and Japan pour in, Canada also wants a bigger piece of the...