One in four Filipinos farm the land Yet Philippines is now world's top rice importer Climate change, high costs and low ...

The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) underscored the critical role of a robust middle class in realizing ...

ACHIEVING an 8 percent growth rate for a certain period of years is the key to bringing down the Philippine poverty level to a single digit. So said Bernardo Villegas, the academic economist known for ...

The members of SB19 received replicas of the Murillo Velarde map of the Philippines in a turnover ceremony hosted by the National Library of the Philippines on Tuesday. Asian Institute of Journalism ...

Eastern Visayas posted a 20.3 percent poverty incidence in 2023, lower by 1.9 percentage points from the 22.2 percent posted in 2021, as reported by the Philippine Statistics Authority. This means ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told a Senate inquiry Monday that he had maintained a “death squad” of gangsters to kill other criminals when he was ...

Philippines and is composed of 69 members, 49 of which are from the Asia and Pacific region. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, ...

More than 120 people have been killed and dozens are missing after floods and landslides hit the Philippines in the wake of Tropical Storm Trami. It is the southeast Asian archipelago's deadliest ...

The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130 and the president said Saturday that many areas ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Tropical Storm Trami blew away from the northwestern Philippines on Friday, leaving at least 82 people dead ...

The Miss Grand International crowned Rachel Gupta of India as the 2024 titleholder and four more queens including Philippines ... the world is facing today is poverty due to overpopulation ...

COTABATO CITY — Police in Maguindanao del Sur have launched a manhunt against two men who shot and injured an Indian money lender in Datu Hoffer Ampatuan town, Maguindanao del Sur on Thursday ...