Another big-time oil price hike set this week

MANILA – Prices of petroleum products will increase for the fourth consecutive week effective Tuesday. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Petro Gazz, Petron, Seaoil, and Shell...

BSP eyes to finish probe into BDO cyberattack by month’s end

MANILA – Monetary authorities aim to finish by the end of this month the investigation on cyber-hacking of several accounts with the Sy-led BDO Unibank Inc....

How businesses can best help employees disconnect from work

A number of countries have recently introduced legislation giving employees the legal right to disconnect electronically from work. Originating in France, right-to-disconnect initiatives mandate that organizations...

How Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard takeover will drive metaverse gaming into the mass market

Microsoft was positioning itself as one of the pioneers of the metaverse even before its US$75 billion deal to buy online gaming giant Activision Blizzard. In...

Some of the super-rich want to pay more tax – but society cannot afford to depend on them

Demands for the super wealthy to pay more taxes are not new. But they don’t usually come from billionaires or millionaires. Yet on January 19 2022,...

PH, Russia reaffirm efforts on potential use of small reactors

DUBAI, United Emirates – The Philippine Department of Energy (DOE) and the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) on Thursday reaffirmed their collaborative efforts to explore the...

PH economic growth seen at 5% in 2021; 7.5% in 2022

MANILA – The Philippine economy is seen to have expanded by 5 percent in 2021 and is forecast to grow by 7.5 percent this year, an economist...

Oil sets new record amid rising tension in Mideast, Ukraine

ANKARA — Oil prices surpassed the record high prices that were seen in the shale-induced oil crash in 2014 over geopolitical tensions in the United Arab...

Partnership with French gov’t to ramp up dairy sector

MANILA – Two days after forging a partnership with the French government to boost cooperation in food security, Agriculture Secretary William Dar on Wednesday directed the National...

Gov’t simplifies S-Pass use for local travel