MANILA, Philippines - Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. on Monday, February. 3 declared food security emergency ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. declared a food security emergency on rice through Department Circular No.

Inflation might have softened in January on the back of lower rice prices and electricity costs, a development that can help ...

Steady food prices coupled with manageable transport and utility costs could have led to inflation edging down last month, ...

IN the grand, often bewildering economic theater of the Philippines, where the script seems to shift from comedy to drama with the regularity of the morning sun, we find ourselves in early 2025, ...

A BusinessWorld poll of 16 analysts yielded a median estimate of 2.8% for the consumer price index (CPI) in January. This is within the 2.5%-3.3% forecast of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) for ...

With prices going up and many struggling to make ends meet, nine out of 10 or 94 percent Filipinos said they will vote for candidates who will ...

Philippine Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel declared a food security emergency on rice on Monday to stabilize the extraordinary rice prices ...

Headline inflation may have settled within the 2.5 to 3.3 percent range in January, possibly breaching the three percent level amid higher prices of gas and food items, according to the Bangko Sentral ...

DUMAGUETE CITY, Negros Oriental (PIA) — The province’s 2024 inflation rate has dropped to an average of 3.2 percent from 5.6 ...