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The Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) has called for caution in the implementation of total deregulation of petrol prices, citing potential inflationary pressures and [...]

THE Supreme Court has declared that the Department of Energy (DOE) may take over oil industry operations in times of emergency upon the directive of the President. In a 36-page [...]

THE Supreme Court (SC) has declared that the Department of Energy (DOE) may take over oil industry operations in times of emergency upon the directive of the President. Thus, in [...]

DAVAO CITY-The autonomous status of Notre Dame University (NDU) has been extended to 2025, the Bangsamoro Region's education ministry announced. The Ministry of Basic, Higher and Technical Education (MBHTE) has [...]

IF the country is to survive the current spike in commodity prices led by oil, it should resort to oil stockpiling instead of reviving the Oil Price Stabilization Fund (OPSF), [...]

The 10th consecutive week of oil price increase, and the biggest yet for the year, will take effect Tuesday, March 8. Oil firms announced Monday a price increase of P5.85 [...]

Majority and minority Senators prodded President Duterte Monday to consider urgent mitigating measures, including suspension of fuel tax, amid the looming imposition of another round of oil price hikes triggered [...]

THE 10th consecutive week of oil price increase, and the biggest yet for the year, will take effect Tuesday, March 8. Oil firms announced Monday a price increase of P5.85 [...]

WITH eight consecutive oil price hikes, a partylist group is pushing for the passage of a bill instituting the unbundling of prices in the sale of petroleum products in the [...]

Farmers currently harvesting their crop are expected to augment the country's rice inventory shortly. This is good news following the recent announcement by the Department of Agriculture (DA) that the [...]

SUGAR industry stakeholders urged anew the country's economic managers to rescind their proposal to open up the sector after securing the support of lawmakers who opposed it. Various sugar industry [...]

Several lawmakers strongly urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) and Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA) to seriously study the proposal to ease the restrictions on importing sugar. At the same time, [...]

ENERGY Secretary Alfonso Cusi is pushing for the revision of the oil deregulation law so his office can enforce a proposed policy that seeks to unbundle fuel prices. 'We discussed [...]

President Donald J. Trump wants to make it easier for genetically engineered plants and animals to enter the food supply, and he signed an executive order this past week directing [...]

The higher cost of local sugar is making it doubly difficult for Philippine food processors to compete with their counterparts in Southeast Asia, exporters said over the weekend. The Philippine [...]

TENURED employees of the National Food Authority (NFA) are mulling over their legal options following the enactment of the rice trade liberalization law, which they claim could strip them of [...]

THE rice tariffication bill should be signed into law and sugar imports must be deregulated if the government intends to temper inflation this year, the country's largest network of local [...]

In an earlier article, we wrote that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been doing some kind of neoliberal revisionism. It has softened its dogmatic neo-liberal stand on capital liberalization, [...]

A PROPOSED policy that would mandate oil firms to unbundle, or itemize, the costs of petro fuel-from the pump to the consumers -just doesn't sit well for oil firms, who [...]

CONSUMER-advocacy group Laban Konsyumer Inc. (LKI) has called on the energy department to compel oil firms to unbundle retail prices of petroleum products and publish the regular maintenance schedule of [...]

WHEN President Ferdinand E. Marcos sounded the alarm bells over the communist threat after the Plaza Miranda bombing of August 21, 1971, and the landing in Isabela province of automatic [...]

A group of food manufacturers has thrown its support behind the plan of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) to lift the suggested retail- price (SRP) scheme for basic [...]

Byline: Catherine Pillas The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has reassured consumers that it will continue to monitor suggested retail prices (SRPs) to ensure no sudden spikes in prices [...]

Byline: Cecilio Arillo THIS is what President Duterte and his economic team must look into: structural adjustments, a set of economic policies created and imposed by narrow-minded neoclassicists of the [...]

Byline: Lenie Lectura THE Department of Energy (DOE) has committed to go against illegal liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) refilling activities, the Independent Philippine Petroleum Companies Association (Ippca) said on Monday. [...]

Byline: Rizal Raoul Reyes ALTHOUGH they were not born yet during the dictatorship era, a group of young activists said the youth today continue to bear the brunt of the [...]

Byline: Recto Mercene SEN. Francis G. Escudero has urged the Fertilizer and Pesticide Authority (FPA) to initiate talks with fertilizer manufacturers and distributors about the possibility of a price rollback [...]

Byline: Dennis B. Funa REPUBLIC Act (RA) 9295, otherwise known as the Domestic Shipping Development Act of 2004, is known for having deregulated the rates for passenger and cargo vessels. [...]

WASHINGTON -- The so-called sharing economy is fast emerging as a 2016 presidential battleground, exposing fundamentally different approaches over how to embrace new technologies without hurting American workers. Eager to [...]

Byline: Lorenz S. Marasigan IT seems that the government is on the losing end in its battle to boost the quality of Internet connection in the Philippines, partly because, by [...]

Byline: Mercedes B. Suleik Risk, as we all know, is ubiquitous, and has always been with us because we live in an uncertain world. Business enterprises are most concerned with [...]