The Philippine women’s softball team is hoping to get international exposures and bolster its preparation ahead of the 2023 World Cup slated July 22 to 26 in Italy. *From left, PH women's softball team members Celyn Ojare, Ann Antolihao and CJ Roa during the PSA Forum.* The Blu Girls, composed of...
Unemployment rate declined to 4.8 percent in February, but getting a secure work remains a challenge for many Filipinos as the number of job seekers increased, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. Based on the PSA Labor Force Survey covering February 2023, the country’s jobless rate...
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. vowed to continue his administration’s drive to sustain the improvements reflected in the recent inflation rate data. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. presides over a Cabinet meeting in Malacañang. (Photo from Presidential Communications Office) In a...
The pace of consumer price increases slowed for the second consecutive month in March, an encouraging sign in the government’s effort to tame the most pressing issue hounding the Marcos administration. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released Wednesday, April 5, showed that the...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – In order to survive amid prohibitive prices of goods and services in the country, changing the budgeting style is a must nowadays for consumers. Mae Shanne Angelic Siglos, a call center agent and a mother of three from Barangay Lapasan here, said because of the inflation, she...
Therma Luzon, Inc. (TLI), a subsidiary of Aboitiz Power Corporation has renewed its power supply agreement (PSA) with Ibaan Electric Corporation (IEC) for another five-year duration. According to the Aboitiz firm, it will be supplying 10.92 megawatts to the power utility, which the latter will be...
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...
