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President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said Tuesday he remains optimistic about bringing down the price of rice to P20 per kilo, even as the grain has been selling for more than double that amount. In an interview in Zamboanga, the President said this could be achieved once the cost of agricultural …

President Marcos on Wednesday, Sept. 20, certified the “necessity of the immediate passage” of House Bill (HB) No. 8980, which is the 2024 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) or the P5.768-trillion proposed national budget for 2024. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. (Photo from the Presidential Communications Office) Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary …

More Filipinos rated themselves as poor in the second quarter of 2023, the Tugon ng Masa (TNM) survey conducted by OCTA Research and released on Tuesday showed. Results of the survey, conducted from July 22 to 26, found that around 50 percent or an estimated 13.2 million Filipino families consider …

As political tensions with India remain at an all-time high, the Trudeau government is preparing to make some incremental progress with a key ally in its Indo-Pacific strategy — Japan.  Japan’s minister of economy, trade and industry will be in Ottawa Thursday. As political tensions with India remain at an …

The diplomatic relationship between Canada and India exploded this week when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused India’s government of being involved in the June killing of B.C.’s Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh man who supported the push for an independent Sikh homeland called Khalistan.  Some key points in history …

Canada’s inflation rate jumped higher last month, to an annual pace of four per cent, mostly because of an increase in gasoline prices.  Grocery prices increased at 6.9 per cent annual pace. Canada’s inflation rate jumped higher last month, to an annual pace of four per cent, mostly because of …

WASHINGTON, D.C.: US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday it is too early to gauge the economic impact from an ongoing, historic strike at three top car manufacturers. “It’s premature to be making forecasts about what it means for the economy,” she said in an interview on CNBC, adding …

It certainly wasn’t the first time a government was accused of orchestrating a killing on foreign soil, but observers around the world were nonetheless shocked by Prime Minister’s Justin Trudeau’s allegation that India’s leaders had a hand in killing a Canadian citizen earlier this year in B.C.  Assassinations aren’t just …

Unifor and Ford have reached a tentative contract deal, averting a strike that would have seen around 5,600 Canadian workers hit the picket lines, and providing a roadmap for an agreement for thousands of other autoworkers employed by General Motors and Stellantis.  Contract deal comes a day after strike deadline …

SHANGHAI: US firms in China are reporting “record-low” optimism and increasingly looking to move investment away from the country, a business group said on Tuesday, as slowing growth and geopolitical tensions hurt investor confidence. The findings by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) Shanghai come as the government enacts a …