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The Philippines and the United States have agreed to strengthen their “strategic civil nuclear cooperation” to improve the country’s energy security and other nonmilitary uses of nuclear power under a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the Department of Energy (DOE) said on Saturday.

In the same way, people believe in the Marcos myth that the father’s reign was the “golden age” of the Philippines, they hold on to the notion that Marcos Jr. will bring back that fairy-tale kingdom.

MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the entire Philippines under a state of calamity in an attempt to contain the  2019 coronavirus disease or COVID-19 which has sickened over 180 people.

Leading Thai hotel company Dusit International has signed a hotel management agreement with International Builders Corporation (IBC), one of the leading construction companies in the Philippines, to operate Dusit Princess Boracay hotel on the west coast of the island.

INFLATION in the Philippines eased to a 16-month low of 3 per cent year-on-year in April, due mainly to slower increases in prices of food and beverages, the government reported.

THE BUREAU OF Internal Revenue (BIR) is going after the income tax payments of more than 130,000 unregistered Chinese working in the Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogo) sector.

THE FEDERATION of Philippine Industries claimed that the country’s revenue losses due to oil smuggling have increased by about 30 per cent since higher excise taxes were slapped on the product.

An emergency meeting to head off an outbreak of African swine fever across Asia opened in Bangkok on Wednesday, after a mass pig cull in China sparked fears of a potential pandemic.

The Philippines is concerned about China's possible deployment of nuclear weapons in its outposts in the heavily disputed South China Sea.

PHILIPPINES’ GOVERNMENT will spend up to 80 billion pesos on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of war-torn Marawi City, with groundbreaking slated for mid next month.

THE Philippines’ Department of Finance will push for a further increase in alcohol and cigarette excise taxes not only to raise additional revenues but also as a health measure, even if elevated prices of “sin” products had already contributed to high inflation at the start of the year.

THE Philippines’ outstanding debt increased to a record high above US$133 billion at the end of the first quarter, due to a weaker peso and the government’s issuance of debt paper in China in March.