As part of the follow-on activities to the 2016 Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards (CMA), the University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries (UP ISSI) recently held the CMA – Microenterprise Management & Development Program, an enriching five-day event that brought together business management and finance mentors and the CMA winners, where practical insights on entrepreneurship and personal finance were imparted to participants.

United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to Manila, Bangkok, and Kuala Lumpur August 5 – 9, the US Embassy in Manila said Wednesday.

Barangay Ginebra San Miguel is showing signs of progress with the return of seven-foot slotman Greg Slaughter and the Gin Kings will have a chance to continue moving up with a win against Kia Picanto on Wednesday.

Sort of once every three weeks is fine.

Anticrime crusader Dante Jimenez teamed up Wednesday with the Vanguards for the Philippine Constitution Inc. in submitting to the House of Representatives a complaint against Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno. The same is not yet being considered as a "filed" impeachment complaint, however, as it has not been endorsed by any member of Congress.

Malaysian authorities seized trafficked ivory tusks and pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million over the weekend, airport customs officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of seizures in Asia of products made from endangered animals.

In a bid to protect public consumers against fraudulent, deceptive and manipulative schemes in buying products or services in the market, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and three law enforcement agencies have closed ranks to fight such scams.

Lawmakers continued to demand the resignation of Nicanor Faeldon despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s professed support for the beleaguered Customs commissioner.

Peter Lim, the Cebu businessman described as a friend of President Rodrigo Duterte, is also allegedly one of the biggest drug lords in the Visayas, the police Criminal Investigation and Detection Group told the Department of Justice.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump disagree over the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and said the two men discuss how to use the international agreement to advance administration policies.

Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has filed a bill that seeks to allow women to reclaim their maiden names without needing to secure a court order first.

The Department of Justice dismissed the petition for review filed by the owner of the Caloocan City funeral parlor where South Korean businessman Jee Ick Joo’s body was taken and cremated after he was killed by his police abductors.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have started using a new route across the Gulf to funnel covert arms shipments to their Houthi allies in Yemen's civil war, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters.

She apologized to the family of a wheelchair-bound boy for tweets in which she accused Trump of ignoring him at a media event.

Bitcoin's underlying software code was split, generating a new clone called "Bitcoin Cash," but the new virtual currency got off to a slow start due to lackluster support for its network.