No. 47-2025 clarifying some issues regarding the value-added tax (VAT) on digital services imposed by Republic Act No. 12023.

Romania’s centrist Bucharest mayor, Nicusor Dan, won the country’s presidential election on Sunday in a shock upset over a ...

THE PHILIPPINES’ balance of payments (BoP) deficit widened further in April as the government paid back its external debt, data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) showed.

PHILIPPINE AUTOMOTIVE SALES slid by 10% in April, the biggest annual decline in more than three years, amid a double-digit decline in passenger car sales, an industry report showed.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES’ budget proposals for the 2026 national budget have surged to P11 trillion, up from the P9.2 trillion in funding requests made for the 2025 budget, according to the Department of ...

US singer Chris Brown was denied bail by an English court over a serious assault charge on Friday, throwing his upcoming world tour into doubt. Mr. Brown has been charged with inflicting grievous ...

THE PHILIPPINES is poised to attract more foreign direct investments (FDI) as it is seen as an emerging “friendshoring” destination for the US and as secondary hub for China-based companies, HSBC ...

This column comes out a week after the 2025 Midterm National and Local Elections were held. The results of the Senate race (five from the administration Alyansa, five from the Duterte family-endorsed ...

The Austrian government and national broadcaster ORF are grappling with where to host the next Eurovision Song Contest and how to cover the cost, officials said on Sunday after their country’s entry ...

Last week, on May 15, I attended the press conference of the Department of Energy (DoE) presided by Energy Secretary Raphael P.M. Lotilla. While the good secretary discussed many things, from EPIRA to ...

Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonca Filho wanted to explore his childhood memories of life under the country’s military dictatorship and how that time echoes in the present in his Cannes Film Festival ...

LOPEZ-LED First Philippine Holdings Corp. (FPH) sold its shares in Pi Energy, Inc., its energy solutions platform, to its power generation arm, First Gen Corp., for P1.006 billion. In separate ...