MANILA, Oct 14 - Remittances from Filipinos working overseas should grow 4 percent this year from last year's record $16.4 billion, Philippine central bank Governor Amando Tetangco said on Wednesday. Tetangco has previously forecast the...
MANILA, Oct 14 - The Philippines will maintain a 2009 budget deficit target of 250 billion pesos ($5.4 billion), a record high, despite the costs of rebuilding typhoon-hit areas in the north, the finance chief...
SINGAPORE, Oct 13 - The Philippine central bank intervened on Tuesday to slow the peso's rise near the key 46.50 per dollar level, traders said. The peso <PHP=> pulled back to 46.50 after briefly hitting...
MANILA, Oct 12 - The Philippines ordered imports of 250,000 tonnes of rice on Monday as officials said two typhoons over the past 15 days had badly damaged farmlands and roads in the north and...
MANILA, Oct 1 - The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has asked the Philippines to investigate allegations of murder and abductions of trade union leaders, the head of a visiting mission said on Thursday. The ILO...
Ken Tuchman, a former member of the 400, looks to up his call-center bet in the Philippines.
MANILA, Sept 29 - The Philippines plans to raise 65 billion pesos ($1.4 billion) from local debt issues in the fourth quarter, lower than programmed borrowings in the previous three months, to help plug a...
MANILA, Sept 28 - The Philippine Bureau of Treasury rejected all bids at the regular auction of 91-day bills on Monday because of high rates. Banks bid 1.17 billion pesos for the 2.0 billion pesos...
MANILA, Sept 23 - The Philippines, one of few Asian economies to have escaped a recession, is considered one of the candidates in the region, alongside South Korea, Australia and China, for an early strike...
MANILA, Sept 23 - Philippine central bank Governor Amando Tetangco said on Wednesday it was not yet time to shift from expansionary monetary and fiscal policies, which were helping an economic recovery. "It's never too...