Young people across South-Eastern Asia and the Pacific, the subregion that includes the Philippines, are facing worsening employment prospects as youth joblessness and disengagement rise despite the region’s relatively low headline unemployment rate, according to the International Labor...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak is spreading faster than efforts to fight it, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday during a visit to Congo where some health workers are striking over a lack of pay. Nearly three months into the outbreak,...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo to support measures being ramped up to slow the world 's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak, the agency said Wednesday, as confirmed cases reach nearly 4,000. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus...
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) signed an agreement with Maxicare Healthcare Corp. to launch G-HEALTH, a program offering zero-interest financing for health and hospitalization insurance to government employees. In a statement, GSIS said the initiative allows public sector workers...
The Miss Universe Organization (MUO) has officially unveiled the full schedule for the major events leading up to the Miss Universe 2026 coronation in Puerto Rico this November. In a recent announcement posted on its official Instagram account, the organization confirmed that the National Costume...
Member states of the International Labor Organization (ILO) including the Philippines adopted a new ILO Convention on decent work in the platform economy—the first legally binding global treaty with international standards to protect and promote decent work for gig workers in the platform...
The Philippines has established itself as the third fastest-growing economy in the world for investments in intangible assets, which include intellectual property (IP) rights, according to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). In its World Intangible Investment Highlights (WIIH)...
While the Philippine tax effort—tax collections as a share of gross domestic product (GDP)—stood below the Asia-Pacific (APAC) average, the country outpaced most of its Southeast Asian peers. According to the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Revenue...
The Philippines is expected to maintain its position as the world’s second-largest exporter of pineapples over the next decade on the back of rising demand from China, according to two international organizations. In a joint report published on Monday afternoon, June 29, the Organization for...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) has encouraged the Philippines to expedite the implementation of trade facilitation reforms to reduce excessive costs associated with trade, making its products more competitive on the global stage. As part of its sixth Philippine trade policy review, the...
The Philippines is expected to expand its meat imports to a record high of more than 1.7 million metric tons in carcass weight equivalent (MT-CWE) this year to supplement domestic production, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). In its latest Food Outlook...
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has flagged corruption as a major risk to Philippine infrastructure delivery, warning that the multibillion-peso flood-control corruption scandal show that current accountability safeguards remain insufficient to prevent the misuse of...
