The Philippines has seen only minimal improvement in life expectancy over the past two decades, with a data scientist pointing out how government services “shape who lives longer and who does not.” ...

Finance Secretary Frederick D. Go is crossing his fingers that the Philippines will eventually reach upper-middle-income country (UMIC) status by next ...

The DENR’s Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Act sets escalating recovery targets: 20% in 2023, 40% in 2024, 50% in 2025 ...

Philippines marks 90 years of socioeconomic planning as Secretary Arsenio Balisacan urges stakeholders to apply historical ...

When Metro Pacific Investments Corp.  chief Manuel V. Pangilinan was asked whether his company would resubmit a bid to operate and maintain the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 , his answer sent the ...

The year at best is a complicated one, the fifth since pandemic and one of guarded optimism and resilience amid mounting fiscal and external pressures. The STAR’s Business Section looks back at some ...

Freedom Bank Kazakhstan, a part of Freedom Holding Corp., a NASDAQ-listed finance and technology group, received the award in ...

The writer says that what the country needs is "nothing short of a comprehensive reform package, which creates real political parties, punishes corruption and vote-buying, and creates sufficient ...

THE HOUSE of Representatives on Monday approved on second reading a bill amending the Philippines’ decades-old bank secrecy law, allowing the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to look into the ...

Despite high economic policy uncertainty, the global economy’s performance was resilient, supported by continued growth of merchandise trade and investment in technology-related sectors. Still, global ...

The shooting attack at a Jewish Hanukkah event at Sydney's Bondi Beach put the spotlight on Islamic State, which police said ...

Students in the Philippines have made slight gains in mathematics but have shown no real progress in reading over the past ...