The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended 2025 with little to show for the year, closing near where it began as investors navigated sticky inflation, cautious consumers, and uneven earnings growth. The benchmark failed to sustain rallies that briefly lifted…
The Philippines rarely figures in conversations about Asia’s most competitive industrial real estate hubs. That is beginning to change. At the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards 2025, Aboitiz Economic Estates was named a finalist for Best Industrial Developer in Asia, while…
The Philippine economy is heading into 2026 with slowing growth and mounting structural risks, prompting the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry to release a white paper calling for decisive reforms in infrastructure planning, execution, and governance. The chamber developed…
The Philippine economy is no longer overheating—but it is not stalling either. Instead, it is settling into something more uncomfortable: a slower, uneven expansion that exposes long-standing weaknesses just as global conditions turn less forgiving. The World Bank’s December 2025…
Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) chairman and chief executive Alejandro Tengco is pushing ahead with a broad restructuring of the Philippines’ gaming landscape, framing recent regulatory tightening and the planned privatization of the state-run Casino Filipino network as necessary…
For many young Filipinos, adulthood no longer feels like a launchpad; it feels like a lifeboat. Their peers abroad talk about “finding purpose” and “designing a life,” while Filipino Gen Zs are calculating if this month’s salary can cover rent,…
As artificial intelligence blurs the boundaries between inspiration and imitation, the Philippines’ creative sector is facing a new urgency: protecting the very ideas that fuel its growth. During the opening of Design Week Philippines, Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines…
Investors navigating the Philippine market are behaving as if they are changing lanes on a busy highway: even as stocks slow to a crawl under the weight of a deepening flood-control scandal, traffic in government bonds is moving steadily—and in…
“Dalifornication” is the kind of phrase that sticks because it captures a cultural mood as much as a place. The Economist’s recent description of young Chinese “Dalifornia dreamin’” has turned the ancient city of Dali in Yunnan into shorthand for…
The Philippines is building a $15-billion airport on land it had to dredge from the sea — and experts say that same sea, along with sinking soil beneath it, could cripple the project within decades. The warnings intensified after The…
