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GROWTH in remittances from Filipinos abroad slowed to 2.4 percent in February, the slowest in seven months, according to the latest data released by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). On Monday, BSP said the data showed this was the slowest since July 2022 when remittances posted a year-on-year growth…

OVER 7,500 overseas Filipino workers (OFW) who were retrenched from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have submitted the required email for the processing of their claims, according to the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW). In a television interview with PTV on Monday, DMW Secretary Susan V. Ople disclosed the enthusiastic…

THE Palawan government recently launched an ambitious project to promote the Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) in the West Philippine Sea as a destination for wildlife adventure-seeking tourists. The maiden voyage occurred March 19, 2023 in five stops—Ulugan Bay in Puerto Princesa, Lawak Island, Patag Island, Likas Island and Pagasa Island.…

PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. said the country is now eyeing to expand economic and defense cooperation with the Czech Republic. Marcos made the pronouncement in a press conference after his bilateral meeting with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, who arrived in the country last Sunday, for the first leg of his 10-day…

“There’s no question that the business combination will create a larger Land Bank with a greater capacity to generate new earnings."

Surigao del Sur Rep. Johnny Pimentel is hoping that the national government would receive bigger cash dividends from the Land

Marcos declares April 21 as regular holiday

China's embassy in the Philippines on Sunday said that its ambassador Huang Xilian's remarks about overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan were misquoted, misunderstood, or taken out of context.

The Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement signed in 2014 allows US forces to access, to build facilities, and position equipment, aircraft, and vessels, to designated Philippine military facilities, but not as permanent bases the way Subic, Zambales and Clark in Mabalacat, Pampanga hosted the largest US military bases in the eastern Pacific until 1991 when the Philippine Senate rejected the treaty to extend US military presence.

The Chinese Embassy in Manila on Sunday, April 16, accused reports of misquoting or misinterpreting the remarks made by Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Huang Xilian about the fate of some 150,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Taiwan amid the intensified Philippine-United States (US) military ties.