MARKETS are expected to cheer generally peaceful midterm elections on May 12, and with Philippine President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr’s economic policies likely to get a boost from allies in the new ...

THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) said on Monday there was no failure of elections in the 2025 midterm elections despite sweeping issues on faulty automated counting machines (ACMs), ...

THE Philippine Navy deployed three warships near western Mindanao, aiming to establish a strategic presence and deter potential threats that could disrupt peace amid the country’s elections. In a ...

THE Marcos administration will likely maintain control over the House of Representatives after the Philippine midterm elections, with admin-endorsed candidates benefiting from access to established ...

MORE than 4,000 prisoners across several facilities under the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) cast their ballots for the midterm polls on Monday. BuCor told reporters in a Viber chat that 4,125 ...

Gunmen killed a candidate for councilor and his sibling, who is an incumbent barangay chairman, while on their way to a polling site in Bayang, Lanao del Sur on Monday morning. The fatalities, Afganie ...

THE Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) broke ground for its latest housing project in Iloilo City, which is expected to deliver more than 1,600 new units by 2030. A total of ...

Four civilians and a policeman were hurt in a shootout involving supporters of two rival political quarters in Barangay Rosary Heights 10 in this city on Sunday night. Senior officials of the Army’s ...

THE 17% tariff the US is poised to charge Philippine goods, while favorable compared to rest of the region, is not enough to overcome Vietnam’s cost advantage in furniture, the Chamber of Furniture ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said the P20-per-kilo rice program will be offered in more regions, with funding and rice inventories deemed sufficient to support such an expansion. The DA ...

FINANCE Secretary Ralph G. Recto said digital service providers (DSPs) are likely to absorb the new value-added tax (VAT) on digital services, instead of passing the cost on to consumers.

THE PHILIPPINES registered 2.1 million visitor arrivals in the four months to April, falling 0.82% behind the pace from a year earlier following reduced traffic from South Korea, the Department of ...