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Will ALECO reprivatization worsen Albay power woes?
Climate and energy groups claim that privatization will fail to resolve the power crisis and will instead compound the cooperative’s existing debt
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[Vantage Point] Landbank’s P182-million belated retreat
Prolonged financial paralysis is never a harmless administrative technicality
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Albay mayors give ALECO ultimatum to solve persistent power interruptions
The electric cooperative attributes the outages to ongoing national-funded substation upgrades, promising Phase 1 completion in 2026 amid rising public frustration over their unreliable services
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[Vantage Point] The Senate’s Villar problem
Putting former DPWH secretary Mark Villar in charge of the oversight desk looks less like legislative stewardship and more like institutional conflict of interest
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[OPINION] The problem with DOE’s Mid-Merit Natural Gas Capacity Auction Program
Natural gas can provide useful mid-merit and balancing services. That capability does not justify a uniform gas procurement across grids with different supply conditions and cost structures.
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Mark Villar switches camps. Minutes later, family’s troubled firms make their move.
It’s been a busy afternoon for the Villars, as Mark crosses to the Senate majority, Camille stays, and three of the family's suspended firms move to finally release their long-overdue financial statements
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Off the menu: Angel’s Pizza, Figaro Coffee owner set to exit PSE
Fans of Angel’s Pizza and Figaro Coffee need not worry about their favorite snacks disappearing
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‘Floating’ money: Did the Dutertes use manager’s checks to hide wealth off bank balances?
'Repeatedly issuing and cancelling manager’s checks around year-end could therefore raise red flags of reverse window dressing, making bank balances appear smaller without actually reducing wealth,' says global tax policy expert Mon Abrea
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[Good Business] The AI nutrition label: Why we need to know what’s inside before we trust it
When we buy food, we read the label to understand its ingredients, nutritional value, and expiration date. We should apply the same principle to AI.
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CrowdStrike says China-based suspect used AI tools in South Korean bank hacks
(1st UPDATE) CrowdStrike says the attacker used ARTEX, a recently released Chinese-developed open-source penetration-testing tool, alongside large language models
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Anyare? Villars’ AllHome, AllDay confirm store closures
From a peak of 72 stores two years ago, AllHome is down to 34 stores, while the store count of AllDay drops from 40 to 13, as of September 2026
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[In This Economy] Cesar Virata, technocrat who helped finance a dictatorship
How should we remember a capable technocrat who helped keep such a government going?
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On day one, rush for GCash IPO shares briefly trips up trading systems
'I heard some platforms went down because of the traffic. That’s a good problem for all of us, right?' Mynt president and CEO Martha Sazon tells a room full of potential GCash investors hours after the public offer formally opened
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Unemployment eases to 5.3% in August 2026 as agriculture adds jobs
Manufacturing continues to weaken as employment in the sector further fell to 3.16 million in August from 3.43 million in July
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[Vantage Point] Is Del Monte in default? The debt behind the label
The sheer consumer power of the Philippine franchise is precisely why nervous financiers continue to sit at the bargaining table
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LIST: Duterte-Carpio bank accounts, balances detailed in impeachment trial
Here is a summary of the banks testifying on the Duterte-Carpio money trail as prosecutors try to determine whether year-end account balances line up with what was declared in the Vice President's SALNs
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Want to buy GCash shares? How retail investors can join the IPO
Here’s what you need to know about the offer period and what to consider before deciding whether to buy
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[Puso at Diwa] When AMLC’s financial intelligence speaks
The appropriate response to AMLC Executive Director Ronel Buenaventura's testimony is not to demonize the institution but to examine the numbers
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[Vantage Point] Inside the addictive architecture of the AI microdrama
Microdramas introduce an ingenious twist to the familiar psychology of the infinite scroll: monetize the cliffhanger.
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Is a second, stickier inflation wave taking shape?
There is also the elephant in the room: the looming 'super' El Niño.
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Inflation soars to 7.2% as food, fuel prices climb in September 2026
The latest surge in inflation marks the end of a disinflation trend that brought the rate down for four straight months from the 7.2% also recorded in April
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The secret to the Lopez family’s enduring control of ABS-CBN
Why are the Lopezes still calling the shots at ABS-CBN even as an outsider pays most of its rescue?
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AMRO further cuts PH growth outlook as flood control issue slows investment
‘The Philippines also had some domestic issues that they need to deal with. Remember, there was this flood control-related issue, and that's significantly slowed down public investment,’ AMRO chief economist Dong He says
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