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The Philippines remains in a strong fiscal position to meet the financial challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic and ride out the global economic crisis, the Department of Finance (DOF) said. Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III said the government has the financial muscles to reboot the...

The Philippine government was urged to buy all locally produced palay as farm-gate prices sank to as low as P12.50 per kilogram (/kg), a move that may cost around P152 billion or a whopping 2,000 percent increase from the current budget of the National Food Authority (NFA) for its palay...