The Philippine trade deficit widened further to USD4.13 billion in March, as export growth failed to keep pace with the double digit expansion in imports, the Philippine Statistics Authority said Wednesday.
The Philippines' agricultural sector saw a rise in export revenue in February 2025, totaling USD691.92 million—up 21 percent from the previous year's USD572.32 million.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has ordered sanitary landfill operators across the country to prepare contingency plans for fires and other emergencies, following a nationwide audit of waste facilities.
Laguindingan International Airport, the country’s tenth busiest gateway operated by Aboitiz InfraCapital, recently staged a high-stakes emergency simulation that looked less like a routine compliance exercise and more like a full-scale stress test of how an airport actually holds together under pressure.
Government spending on environmental protection in the Philippines posted a modest increase in 2025, but the latest data suggests persistent gaps in how resources are allocated and tracked.
Lito Villanueva, executive vice president and chief innovations and Inclusion of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., the country’s 6th largest lender by assets, called for stronger cross-industry collaboration and more adaptive regulation to accelerate digital banking across Asia.