The eight sites submitted by the Philippine delegation to be included in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) tentative list of World Heritage sites include the sugar cultural landscape of Negros and Panay, the historic towns and

If financial institutions and the government could help the small business sector grow, they could produce as much as 60 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, which is something that global digital payments platform Visa believes. According to Gareth

In the latest Human Development Index of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Philippines’ ranking went up five spots, although it still remains among the laggards in Southeast Asia. The country ranked 113th out of 193 countries in the

The Alliance of Concerned Teachers has called on the House of Representatives to reallocate the budget earmarked for the proposed Charter change plebiscite toward constructing more classrooms, amid the learning crisis. “NEDA (National Economic Development Authority) projects spending a staggering

Despite ranking 16th among 146 countries in the 2023 World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index report, the Philippines still has a long way to go to close the gender gap due to cases of unreported domestic violence against women

The United Nation’s children’s agency recently reported that an estimated 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, which is a 51 percent decrease since 2000 and a 62 percent drop since 1990. However, despite the achievement, it

Citing a February 29 study in the medical journal The Lancet, the World Health Organization said 43 percent of the world’s adult population, or 2.5 billion people, are now overweight, while 2022 figures showed that 20 percent or over 390

The Department of Natural Resources and the European Union recently launched the Green Economy Programme in the Philippines (GEPP), a P3.67 billion program that aims to reduce waste and combat climate change by improving waste management and supporting the country’s

The South China Sea has one of the richest marine biodiversity in the world, but according to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, competing territorial claims and neglect are threatening its ecosystem. According

The El Niño weather phenomenon that peaked in December was one of the five strongest ever recorded, the United Nations said last week, as it predicted above-normal temperatures from now until May. Though El Niño is gradually weakening, its impact