Senator Raffy Tulfo paid a courtesy call to the Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco, California amid the intensified crackdown by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on immigrants and undocumented workers. The San Francisco Philippine Consulate has jurisdiction...
Senators on Monday, June 23 called on the government to intensify its preparation for evacuation efforts for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East following the unprecedented attack of the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Sen. Panfilo “Ping” Lacson expressed fears the...
Even as the Philippine peso depreciated against the United States (US) dollar at a pace that was among the worst among emerging market (EM) currencies last week, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is still expected to cut interest rates this week. Data from the Bankers Association of the...
The United States (US) Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Funnull Technology Inc., a Philippines-based firm, and its Chinese administrator Liu Lizhi, for facilitating massive virtual currency investment scams known as “pig butchering.” These...
Logistics solutions provider Airspeed is projecting a 10 percent decline in its export service this year, as prospective buyers of Philippine products are holding off their orders ahead of the reimplementation of the United States’ (US) tariff policy. Airspeed Group President Rosemarie Rafael...
Many developing economies, including the Philippines, are expected to lose their competitiveness in the United States (US) market once the currently suspended tariffs imposed by the Trump administration are reinstated, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)....
Money sent home by Filipinos working and living in the United States (US) is seen at risk from the remittance tax proposal pending in the US Congress, according to the think tank Capital Economics. "The proposed five-percent US tax on remittance outflows would have a particularly large negative...
The Philippine peso is seen likely maintaining its relative strength against the United States (US) dollar for the rest of this year until early next year, as the greenback struggles amid US economic policy uncertainty, according to Japanese financial giant MUFG Bank Ltd. "We maintain our view for...
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has flagged the overlapping regulatory functions of the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Department of Health (DOH) as a barrier that could dissuade American exporters from entering the Philippine market. In its latest Food and Agriculture...
The Philippines remains absent from the United States (US) government’s infamous list of countries flagged for issues on safeguarding intellectual property (IP) rights for the 12th straight year. In the 2025 Special 301 Report by the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), released...
A United States (US) trade mission of 37 American agricultural firms and associations will meet with Filipino importers on the sidelines of the delegation's visit to Hong Kong next month, as the US government moves to expand access to its key exports. The United States Department of...
Philippine Anti-Terrorism Council-Program Management Center Director Jose S. Embang, Jr. (center) and Defense Threat Reduction Agency International Counter-proliferation Program representatives Major Matthew Fecke, Master Sergeant Dazzle Orbeta, and Nicholas J. DeDominici join participants at the...
