When the Philippines central bank released its ‘assumptions’ for the Philippine economy on June 4 it projected huge declines across key industries and sectors that have traditionally kept the Philippine’s afloat. Top amongst these were […]
Banks across the Philippines have begun rolling out a range of measures aimed at easing the financial pain the COVID-19 outbreak is causing households under government imposed lockdowns. Millions of Filipinos have been restricted from […]
In the wake of an unprecedented lockdown of Metro Manila, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte doubled-down on Monday by ordering the entire island of Luzon sealed off to fight the COVID-19 outbreak. The largest and most […]
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit to the Philippines in November 2018 was the first by a top Chinese leader in more than a decade, marking the culmination of an ongoing rapprochement between the two […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may be the real-life personification of ‘Judge Dredd’ to many due to his deadly war on drugs, but his backflip on a fuel excise increase has many others labelling him as […]
Newly appointed Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war may be grabbing the lion’s share of headlines, but it’s not the only war the straight-talking former Davao City mayor is fighting. The reality is there’s […]
Philippine Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno presented the 2017 Philippine budget to the leadership of the House of Representatives on Monday and, true to the campaign promises of President Rodrigo Duterte, it focuses additional funding in […]
Now that he is at the helm of the Philippine government the question that remains is: Will President Rodrigo Duterte be able to fulfill the campaign promises he made to the Filipino people during his […]