The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said it will weigh the rate impact as well as implications on next year’s supply of the terminated power supply agreements (PSAs) between power utility giant Manila Electric Company (Meralco) and the subsidiaries of SMC Global Power Holdings Corporation of...
The country’s trade deficit widened hitting a five-month high in January this year after exports fell sharply, data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed. The PSA said on Tuesday, March 14, that the country’s trade gap, or the difference between the value of export and import,...
CALASIAO, Pangasinan – Better late than never. A 99-year-old woman, Estepania N. Descalzo, also known as “Lola Panyang,” from Aguilar, this province, recently received her birth certificate from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), 99 years after she was born in 1923. ESTEPANIA N....
ILOILO CITY – Western Visayas registered an inflation rate of 10.8 percent in February, the highest in more than 14 years, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. A FRUIT and vegetable stall in an outdoor market in Iloilo City. The inflation rate in Western Visayas climbed to 10.8 percent in...
Hidilyn Diaz's Instagram post after receiving her fourth PSA Athlete of the Year award at the Diamond Hotel Manila on March 6, Monday. Olympic gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz acknowledged the achievement of female athletes as part of the celebration of Women's Month. In an Instagram post, Diaz...
Steph de Koenigswarter receives the Hall of Fame Award for her mother, sprint queen Lydia de Vega-Mercado. (Juan Carlo de Vela) It was Lydia de Vega-Mercado’s dream that more people would acknowledge the importance of talent cultivation in the field of sports. Steph de Koenigswarter, de...
ANAKALUSUGAN Party-list Rep. Rey Reyes has slammed the seeming lack of a focused government response to the worsening child labor problem in the country. (Unsplash) “The half a million jump in the number of child laborers in the country from 2020 should be raising red flags. This is...
Hidilyn Diaz gets her fourth Philippine Sportswriters Association Athlete of the Year plum during the awards night Monday, March 6. (Juan Carlo de Vela) By NIKOLE JAVIER Hidilyn Diaz, once dreaming of an award from the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA), had her supporters and...
PSA's Mr. Basketball Scottie Thompson (Juan Carlo de Vela) With all the achievements coming in one after another, it’s not too hard to think that Scottie Thompson is now reaching the peak of his career. The charismatic Barangay Ginebra guard has already won seven titles in the PBA on top of his...
Elma Muros-Posadas, the long jump queen of the Philippines, received the lifetime achievement award at the 2022 San Miguel Corporation-Philippine Sportswriters Association annual awards night at the Diamond Hotel, Manila, on March 6, 2023. (Juan Carlo de Vela) Michael Keon, the executive director...
Of approximately two million OFWs deployed to different countries, more than half are women—here’s a bittersweet story from one of them By: Jelica R. Enriquez I was excited to come home. These were my first thoughts when I boarded the plane on my return flight to Manila. The thrill of traveling...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said the implementation of the national identification system has achieved its goals of onboarding unbanked Filipinos while providing a valid proof of identity that can be used to transact with the government and private sector. PSA Undersecretary Dennis...
