Banco De Oro Universal Bank (BDO Unibank) on Friday bared a new policy against financing the construction of new coal-fired power plants as a matter of course going forward.
Inflation, or the rate of change in prices, is projected to range around the 4 percent mark in the second quarter this year, according to experts such as those from the analytics arm of the credit watcher Moody's Investors Service.
The rate at which prices change across the Philippines pushed past expert projections in February, averaging higher to 3.4 percent for the month from only 2.8 percent in January, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported on Friday.
The country's insurance penetration rate, defined as premium written as percent of local output growth or the gross domestic product (GDP), diminished further in 2023 to only 1.68 percent from 1.81 percent in 2023.
The Philippines ranks among the weakest across the Asia-Pacific region in the important metric of transparency, which measures whether governments and their officials are forthright and accountable, according to Moody’s Analytics.
The country’s sugar industry has submitted a unified manifesto to the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), calling for tighter regulation of artificial sweeteners and other sugar substitutes.
The Department of Energy (DOE) is pushing a major acceleration of the country’s net-metering program by enforcing strict, time-bound permit processing across local governments—an overhaul the agency said will significantly speed up solar installations for households and businesses.
The Jollibee Group is highlighting its Danao Commissary in Cebu as a showcase of how sustainability can be built into manufacturing and logistics from the very beginning, rather than added as an afterthought.
Transportation Secretary Giovanni Lopez has directed the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) to set aside P200 million to P300 million to relocate National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) transmission lines that are preventing full use of the Bicol International Airport (BIA) runway.