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National Treasury sets coupon rate on 5.5Y retail dollar bond at 5.750%

The Bureau of Treasury set at an auction Wednesday the coupon rate on the retail onshore US dollar bond it will offer to the public at  5.750 percent.

Asia Pacific energy leaders bat for nuclear energy adoption

 The Association of Electricity Supply Industry of East Asia and the Western Pacific (AESIEAP) has identified priority initiatives that should prove beneficial as the region...

Telco relocates utilities hit by elevated walkway construction

Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) has signed an agreement with the Department of Transportation (DOTr) in support of the EDSA Greenways Project, an initiative under...

7.9M Filipinos opted out of school in SY 2022-2023

Some 7.9 million--one in every five—school-age children and young Filipino adults aged 5 to 24 years old did not attend school in school year 2022-2023, data from the Philippine Statistic Authority show.

House Speaker Romualdez says NGCP stake in Maharlika radar

The government, through sovereign wealth fund Maharlika Investment Corp., is looking to acquire at least one board seat in the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines, operator of the country’s national electricity transmission highway, House Speaker Ferdinand Martin Romualdez said.

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Smart Travē cuts eSIM rates up to 43% for holiday travelers 

Filipinos traveling abroad this season get up to 43 percent off Smart Travē eSIM data packs—just in time for year-end trips across 100+ destinations.

P3B fuel subsidy targets farmers, fishers, truckers 

The government is rolling out P3 billion in fuel subsidies this month for about 300,000 farmers, fisherfolk and agricultural truckers as elevated oil prices and El Niño squeeze production and distribution costs.

Over a thousand volunteers join Jollibee Group coastal cleanup drive

More than 90 employees from the Jollibee Group and its brands—Jollibee, Mang Inasal, Chowking, and Greenwich—joined the global International Coastal Cleanup here on September 19, 2026, collecting over 400 kilograms of waste from shorelines.

Analysts: GCash IPO mid-price not a warning sign; valuation attractive 

Setting the initial public offering price of Mynt Inc., the operator of GCash, at P6.60 per share—near the lower end of its indicative range—does not signal trouble, according to market watchers. The figure lands close to the mid-point of the original P10-per-share indicative price band.
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