The government drive to make the agriculture sector a key economic driver in the years forward is at peril unless sustainable farming is adopted as a matter of policy.
Maynilad Water Services, Inc. (Maynilad) has been allowed to increase the tariff it charges customers but only as this relates to inflation and not the entire price adjustment mechanism, regulators said on Friday.
Top Line Business Development Corp. has appointed veteran banking executive Jane K. Gocuan as chief investment officer, effective September 18, as the company expands its focus on investment-related activities and business development.
The Philippines is looking to the US for a positive response to measures Manila has taken to address forced labor concerns, as bilateral talks continue over additional tariffs on Philippine exports.
The Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC) have inaugurated the world’s first laboratory fully dedicated to sex-sorting buffalo semen, marking a major policy and infrastructure milestone to strengthen domestic food security, cut import dependence, and build a self-sustaining local dairy sector.
Food delivery is now part of Filipino daily life, with foodpanda seeing peak lunch and dinner orders, steady weekend demand, and 25.3 percent of late-night deliveries (11 p.m.–4 a.m.) for burgers. Responding to this shift and rising digital payments—49 percent of platform transactions—foodpanda and EastWest have launched their co-branded foodpanda Visa credit card.