US manufacturing contracted for an eighth straight month in October as new orders remained subdued, and suppliers were taking longer to deliver materials to factories against the backdrop of tariffs ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally known as Tino, is expected to continue battering the Visayas after making its first landfall over Southern Leyte on Tuesday. Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal No. 4 remains ...

METROPOLITAN Bank & Trust Co. (Metrobank) booked a record nine-month net income, backed by strong loan growth that drove its net interest earnings. The bank’s attributable net profit climbed by 4.34% ...

Typhoon Kalmaegi intensified as it made landfall in the central Philippines on Tuesday, with the state weather bureau warning of “life-threatening” conditions as it placed large parts of the Visayas ...

THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY likely cooled in the third quarter as soft government spending, typhoons and corruption scandals ...

ABOUT 4,417 samples of Philippine rice seed were added to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway, a secure Arctic facility ...

The first glimmers toward ending a near-record long federal government shutdown were seen in the US Capitol on Monday, as leading Senate Republicans and Democrats talked of a possible “off-ramp” to ...

LIMA — Peru has decided to break off diplomatic relations with Mexico, the Andean nation’s foreign minister said on Monday, after Peru’s former prime minister holed up in the Mexican embassy in the ...

A Romanian worker trapped for hours under rubble in Rome on Monday following the partial collapse of a medieval tower near the Colosseum has died, local media said. The man was rescued by emergency ...

MANILA ELECTRIC CO. (Meralco) has upgraded its substation in Laguna to improve the reliability and stability of electricity supply in parts of the province and neighboring Batangas. The project ...

THE PHILIPPINES’ INDUSTRY sector — including manufacturing and construction — may have slumped to its lowest level in recent years, dragging third-quarter economic growth, Economy Secretary Arsenio M.

ABOITIZ POWER CORP. (AboitizPower) said its unit East Asia Utilities Corp. has decommissioned a 12.4-megawatt (MW) diesel generator unit in Cebu after concluding that the facility was no longer viable ...