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Plastic Bank seeks more tie-ups to collect waste in Philippines
PLASTIC BANK, a Canadian social enterprise with a bottle deposit program, is seeking to partner with more Philippine…
Read more →SpaceX seeks $40 billion financing led by Apollo to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports
SPACEX plans to raise $40 billion, led by asset manager Apollo Global Management, for purchasing Nvidia AI chips,…
Read more →WGO center to expand Philippines’ GI specialist capacity
The designation of St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City’s Institute of Digestive and Liver Diseases (IDLD) as a World…
Read more →Paramount wraps up mega Warner Bros merger to create Hollywood powerhouse Skydance
PARAMOUNT SKYDANCE completed its blockbuster $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery on Tuesday, creating a Hollywood heavyweight…
Read more →What do we know about plague institute lab worker’s death in Russia?
MOSCOW/LONDON — A laboratory worker at a plague research institute in Siberia fell ill and died in undisclosed…
Read more →Philippine joblessness rises to 5.3% in August
THE PHILIPPINES’ unemployment rate rose to 5.3% in August from 3.9% a year earlier, leaving 2.77 million Filipinos…
Read more →Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for Antarctic ‘ghost particle’ hunt
STOCKHOLM — The Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating…
Read more →Tennessee execution survivor Christa Pike is conscious and speaking, lawyers say
CONVICTED killer Christa Pike, who survived Tennessee’s effort to execute her by lethal injection last week, foiling the…
Read more →In interview, US Vice President Vance says Iran must cut enrichment to end war
FAIRBANKS, Alaska — US Vice President JD Vance said in an exclusive interview with Reuters that Iran must…
Read more →Two weather systems bring rain over PHL
The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) and the northeasterly windflow are expected to bring rains over large parts of…
Read more →Lenovo expects growth in 2026 amid higher memory chip prices
Lenovo is expected to grow in 2026, driven by its aggressive push into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered products and…
Read more →Philippine inflation heats up to 3-year high
PHILIPPINE INFLATION quickened to its fastest pace in over three years in September as prices of food, transport and utilities surged, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday.
Read more →Philippines hit harder by high energy costs, gains less from AI boom
THE PHILIPPINES is being hit harder by high energy costs and benefiting less from the global artificial intelligence (AI) boom than its Asian peers, making it an “outlier” in East Asia, the World Bank said.
Read more →PEZA inches closer to P300-B full-year goal
THE PHILIPPINE Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) approved P80.68 billion in investment pledges in September, bringing its nine-month total to P297.14 billion, just shy of its P300-billion full-year target.
Read more →PLDT moves VITRO REIT IPO to 2027 amid market conditions, rising rates
PLDT Inc. has moved the planned initial public offering (IPO) of its data center arm VITRO REIT, Inc.…
Read more →Developers seek growth in provincial affordable housing — S&P
PROPERTY DEVELOPERS are shifting toward affordable residential projects outside Metro Manila, where supply-demand conditions are more balanced, as…
Read more →Megawide secures P12.8 billion in new 4PH housing contracts
MEGAWIDE Construction Corp. has secured P12.8 billion worth of contracts for two housing projects under the government’s Expanded…
Read more →ACEN secures P3.5-B loan from ING for renewable projects
ACEN Corp., the listed energy platform of the Ayala group, has secured a €50-million term loan facility, equivalent…
Read more →Mynt IPO opens to retail investors via GStocks PH
MYNT, the financial technology company behind GCash, has begun accepting subscriptions for its initial public offering (IPO), with…
Read more →Four Filipina executives make Fortune’s Asia power list
FOUR Filipina executives were included in Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful Women in Asia for 2026, led by Mynt…
Read more →PetroGreen taps P1.24-B RCBC loan for Isabela solar project
PETROGREEN Energy Corp. (PGEC) has secured a loan facility of up to P1.24 billion from Rizal Commercial Banking…
Read more →E-commerce demand drives Laguna warehouse lease — Savills
RISING e-commerce volumes and demand for faster last-mile delivery drove what Savills Philippines described as the country’s largest…
Read more →Global cost pressures drive offshoring interest in PHL — LPC
RISING operating costs and tighter foreign labor restrictions in Western economies are prompting more companies to consider shifting…
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