Philippines

MANILA: The Philippines recently became the 95th country to ratify the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation Pact after recently...

MANILA: Exporters to New Zealand (NZ) are not maximizing that country’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the ASEAN region, in...

MANILA: Driven by strong advertising revenues, ABS-CBN Corporation is optimistic in reaching its earnings guidance of about P3.5 billion in...

MANILA: Twitter confirmed earlier rumors of a workforce reduction on Thursday, October 27, saying it was undergoing a "restructuring and...

MANILA: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said inflation would stay within the two to four percent target over the...

MANILA: Union Bank of the Philippines reported its net income in the first nine months of 2016 surge by 122...

MANILA: Philippine authorities are keeping an eye on the country's rice supply and will decide shortly if more imports of...

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Tuesday confiscated twelve container vans carrying imported rice from China. The BOC earlier...

MANILA: Continuing his push to ban shark finning in Sabah, Tourism, Culture and Environment Minister Masidi Manjun warned that the...

MANILA: AS the House Committee on Ways and Means started its hearing on a measure imposing excise tax on sugar...

MANILA: Despite tempered expectations, the Bureau of  Customs (BOC) missed its revised target in September by P2.57 billion ($53.5 million)....

MANILA: The Bureau of Customs (BOC) missed its collection target in September, preliminary figures from the bureau showed. In a...

MANILA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed support for a major overhaul of the Philippine tax system, including the...

MANILA: Electronic products remained to be the country’s top exports as the sector grew by 11.6% from US$2.359 billion in...

MANILA: The Philippines shells out P7 billion a year to import coffee and plug the shortfall in domestic production, according...

MANILA: The country’s leading hybrid rice producer SL Agritech Corp. seeks to bag a joint seed production deal with Chinese...

MANILA: Car manufacturers expect sales of automotive vehicles to dampen upon implementation of the proposed hike of excise tax on...

MANILA: Increased demand in the US for oil products pushed up the local prices of diesel and kerosene by P1.55...

MANILA: The Chinese government has lifted the ban on the import of bananas coming from the Philippines. During his courtesy...

MANILA: More than a hundred rice traders in the Philippines have applied for permits to import a total of 750,150...