The Nikkei Philippines Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, or PMI, rose to 53.6 in February from 52.7 in January, marking the end of a four-month slowdown in growth. A reading above 50 indicates economic expansion, while a reading below 50 points toward contraction. A further deceleration in output growth was offset by faster expansions in new […]
Fourteen passengers are dead in a horrific crash when a bus carrying them crashed Monday into an electric post on a hilly descent, disaster management officials said. The passengers, mostly college students on a field trip, were killed after the bus lost its brakes and crashed into the post at around 9 a.m., in Sitio […]
Japan has offered to send patrol ships to deal with a growing piracy threat in the southern Philippine waters bordering Indonesia and Malaysia, a senior Philippine defence official said on Tuesday. A surge in piracy off parts of the southern Philippines is forcing ship-owners to divert vessels through other waters, pushing up costs and shipping […]
A court sentenced a 43-year-old man to life imprisonment Tuesday for murdering two Japanese men for insurance money in the Philippines in 2014 and 2015, as prosecutors demanded. At his lay judge trial at the Kofu District Court in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo, Shoichi Kubota was convicted of killing Shinsuke Toba, 32, and Tatsuya […]
Indonesia and the Philippines are moving to adopt terrestrial digital broadcasting technology, and this move by Southeast Asia’s two most populous countries could open business opportunities for Japanese companies with related hardware. The Philippine government will announce a plan Tuesday for shifting to the new technology. The private-sector GMA Network will invest 416 million pesos […]
More than 100 workers, including three Japanese, were injured and at least three were missing in a fire that hit a huge factory south of Manila and sent thousands of employees scampering to safety, an official said Thursday. The fire at the House Technology Industries was under control but has not been fully extinguished nearly […]
The Philippine police have suspended nationwide anti-drug operations to focus on internal cleansing following the killing of a South Korean man by narcotics officers. On Monday, Police Director-General Ronald Dela Rosa announced that he will stop the use of the national police force in anti-drug operations and launch a massive purge of police involved in […]
A taxi driver in the Philippines who returned the valuable belongings of a businessman after they were left behind in his cab has been rewarded at home and abroad for his honesty. Reggie Cabututan, 30, was honoured by the city of Baguio and offered a chance to study and work in Australia. “All I did […]
The Philippine economy grew by 6.6% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter of last year, bringing the full-year economic growth of the Southeast Asian country to 6.8%, authorities said on Thursday. The expansion of the country’s gross domestic product — the measure of the country’s economic output within its boundaries — was driven […]
Japan’s Calbee has introduced a potato chip product about 70% cheaper than what’s already on sale in the Philippines. The chips will be sold at sari-sari stores, very small mom-and-pop shops that deal in a variety of daily products, a company source said. The new strategy is to focus on middle-income consumers. The snack maker […]
