Chrystia Freeland must pick a lane with next budget – climate change or oil and gas?

When she tables a much-anticipated federal budget later this year, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland mustn’t pass up the opportunity to revisit and rethink a bedrock assumption...

IATF OKs entry of all returning Pinoys to PH

MANILA – Filipinos residing and working overseas are now allowed to return to the Philippines, after the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases...

Duterte’s ‘cancer’ remark just a joke: Palace

House leader backs bill on interest cap for credit card

MANILA – Deputy Speaker Bernadette Herrera is pushing for the immediate passage of a measure seeking to put an interest rate cap on credit card and consumer...

Give PhilSys a chance, Duterte urges Pinoys

MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday enjoined his fellow Filipinos to avail of PhilID, the national identification card under the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys). Duterte made...

House panel pushes for ‘Bantay Antayan’ building at PGH

MANILA – A measure authorizing the construction of a ‘Bantay Antayan” building in front of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) Emergency Room (ER) complex has hurdled committee...

PRRD respects Pinoys’ free speech: Palace

Aussie firm still top choice for PH’s patrol vessel project

MANILA – Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday the Australian shipbuilder Austal, which has a shipyard in Balamban Cebu, remains at the...

USAID, PH collaborate to train OSY in Calabarzon, Zamboanga

MANILA – The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) signed on Thursday a PHP37-million (USD740,000) partnership with the Philippine...

FDA grants EUA to Gamaleya’s Sputnik V

MANILA – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Sputnik V vaccine manufactured by Russian medical-research institute Gamaleya National Center...