The Department of Agriculture (DA) has set the price of National Food Authority (NFA) rice at P35 per kilo, lower than the initial estimate of P38 per kilo, as part of government’s response to the ...

Rice prices in the Philippines continued its downtrend in the first month of 2025, with the inflation rate for the grain staple contracting for the first time in nearly four years, amid a trend of ...

Labor leader Atty. Luke Espiritu on Wednesday slammed the supposed “starvation wages” in the country, saying that he will push for an additional P750 on top of the prevailing minimum wage if elected ...

The Philippines’ Bureau of Customs, under the Department of Finance, has been actively working to modernize custom operations in the country.

Inflation in the Philippines held steady at 2.9 percent in January 2025, within the government’s target range of 2 percent to 4 percent, on lower rice ...

Agriculture secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. declared on Monday a food security emergency on rice through memorandum ...

Eugene Gholz analyzes the economic and security consequences of China's central position in the global rare-earths market. He discusses the evolution of the rare-earths market, which is critical ...

Armed U.S. private security contractors will take up positions inside central Gaza, tasked with inspecting vehicles headed north from southern refugee centers. The U.S. intelligence back channel ...

Senate President Francis Escudero on Monday voiced support for the Department of Agriculture's (DA) plan to declare a ...

The Philippines yesterday declared a food security emergency in order to bring down the price of rice, which officials said ...

In a bid to strengthen the country’s technological landscape, the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said it will ...

The Department of Agriculture (DA) on Monday declared a food security emergency for rice due to an “extraordinary” spike in ...