Philippines

Southeast Asia could be seriously affected in case the US falls into recession, but some countries would be more badly hit than others, economists...

The Philippine government has awarded a consortium backed by South Korean and European companies and led by Samsung Group’s construction arm the $11-billion deal...

Philippine fast food and convenience restaurant group Jollibee Foods has troubles to stay afloat in Vietnam where it opened its first stores a while...

The poverty rate in the Philippines rose to 18.1 per cent of the population in 2021, equivalent to nearly 20 million poor Filipinos, as...

The number of initial public offerings (IPO) at the Philippine Stock Exchange will probably rise to a record this year, with a value of...

The combined wealth of the super-wealthy in the Philippines dropped to $72 billion this year from $79 billion in mid-2021 even as the country...

The Philippines’ public debt stood at a record high of 12.79 trillion pesos ($230.3 billion) when former President Rodrigo Duterte left office at the...

The Philippines finally withdrew from an infrastructure funding deal with China worth 276 billion pesos ($4.9 billion) after Beijing failed to deliver loans under...

Philippine liquor company Emperador, the world’s largest brandy maker, conducted a secondary listing on the Singapore stock exchange on July 14 as it seeks...

Newly-inaugurated Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has vetoed a bill that would have created a special economic zone north of the country’s capital Manila,...

Dutch financial services group ING Bank is exiting the retail banking market in the Philippines, just shortly after US banking giant Citi did the...

The Philippines’ incoming tax agency chief Lilia Guillermo said she intends to collect the long-due estate tax from the family of President-elect Ferdinand Marcos...

Philippines-based Prime Infrastructure Holdings, a company controlled by Filipino billionaire Enrique Razon Jr. has unveiled plans to construct the world’s largest solar power facility...

Malaysia’s Capital A, the holding company formerly known as AirAsia Group, plans to expand its ride hailing platform on its e-commerce platform “Super App”...

Philippine president-elect Ferdinand Marcos emphasised his determination to adopt nuclear power in the country, holding talks on May 23 with South Korea's envoy on...

Philippine stocks dropped to a new nine-month low on May 10, the day after Ferdinand Marcos Jr., son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, won...

Philippine think tank Action for Economic Reforms (AER) has warned that a potential presidency of Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the country’s late...

With a recent relaxing of entry rules, most of Southeast Asia is reacting to the easing Covid-19 pandemic and reopening for travel, with airlines...