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Retailers brace for fresh price hikes as costs climb

Retailers are warning of another wave of price increases as surging fuel prices, higher electricity rates and a new minimum wage squeeze businesses already operating on thin margins.

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Visayas roots, Singapore routes: Top Line redraws its map

Singapore is no longer just a distant dot on Top Line Business Development Corp.’s growth chart. It has become a very literal marker of how far the company has travelled in 12 years, from a Visayas-based real estate developer to an emerging energy player now thinking in global supply routes.

Agriculture

Police bust illegal fertilizer plant in Nueva Ecija, seize P900,000 goods

Law enforcers dismantled an unregistered fertilizer manufacturing facility in Barangay Sta. Monica, Rizal, Nueva Ecija in a joint raid on July 15. They seized 500 bags of fake fertilizer, 21 granulator machines and several trucks valued at about P900,000.

Corporate

NQX Philippines named Top Employer Brand for third year in series 

NQX Philippines has been recognized as one of the country’s Best Employer Brands for 2026, marking its third consecutive win of the award. Endorsed by CHRO Asia, the honor acknowledges the firm’s strong human resources practices and people-focused workplace culture.

Banking & Insurance

GSIS urges Cordillera LGUs to boost public asset protection for disaster resilience

The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has called on local government units (LGUs) across the Cordillera Administrative Region to strengthen protection of public assets, in support of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s push for a more resilient, disaster-ready and accountable government.
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Markets

Netflix stocks slide after weak revenue outlook spooks

Netflix shares tumbled 7.3 percent on Friday after the streaming giant issued a third-quarter revenue forecast that fell short of Wall Street expectations, overshadowing another quarter of solid earnings and steady subscriber engagement.

Travel

Delta nonstop Manila flights lift US tourism prospects

The Philippines is poised to strengthen its biggest inbound tourism market after Delta Air Lines announced its first-ever nonstop flights between Los Angeles and Manila, adding capacity to a route fueled by leisure travel, business demand and one of the world's largest Filipino diaspora communities.
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Energy

Malampaya overhaul completed, paving way for new gas

The Philippines has cleared a critical milestone in its drive for greater energy security after Prime Energy completed the month-long maintenance turnaround of the Malampaya Deep Water Gas-to-Power Project, restoring indigenous gas production and preparing the country's biggest gas field for a fresh production boost later this year.

Transport & Communications

PAL seeks India route return, expands Japan and North America flights

Philippine Airlines is working to bring back flights to India, more than seven years after putting the plan on hold in 2019 because of airspace tensions between India and Pakistan.
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Property

Ayala Land Premier shifts luxury living beyond residences 

Ayala Land Premier is responding to changing preferences in Manila's high-end residential market, where affluent buyers are placing greater value on integrated communities that combine homes with hospitality, wellness, retail and culture.

Environment

SMC clears 116,000 tons of silt, waste in San Juan River maintenance

San Miguel Corporation has removed over 116,000 metric tons of silt and waste from the San Juan River in its ongoing maintenance cleanup, aiming to improve water flow and reduce flooding in San Juan, Manila, Mandaluyong and Quezon Cities.
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Technology

Globe backs new EO on government data protection

Globe Telecom welcomed Executive Order No. 119 signed by President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on July 13, calling it a major step to strengthen the country's cybersecurity and build public trust in digital government.

Health & Science

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Opinion

Childhood shouldn’t come with a timecard or paycheck

The latest child labor figures offer good news wrapped in bad news.

Helen-Tito, Sarah-Matteo, Bea-Vincent

There was a time when lovers ran away from home because they feared their parents.

Why Philippine impeachment isn’t really about crimes 

The biggest misunderstanding about impeachment in the Philippines is that it is simply a trial for crimes or felonies. It isn't. It is something rarer and, arguably, more powerful.

Cockfighting returns to New World, history refuses to stay caged

Cockfighting has always occupied a peculiar corner of the Filipino psyche. It is at once sport, spectacle, business, culture—and depending on whom you ask, either cherished heritage or a tradition overdue for reckoning.