The Department of Energy (DoE) issued a declaration of commercial viability on Wednesday for the Alegria oil and gas field in southern Cebu, with production estimated to last until 2037.

San Miguel PureFoods Company, Inc. (SMPFC), the food and beverage arm of conglomerate San Miguel Corp. (SMC), posted a consolidated net income of PHP6.9 billion in 2017 from PHP6 billion in 2016.

The Philippines is set to launch its planned RMB 1.46 billion-worth Panda bond soon, Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said.

Former Trade Secretary Adrian Cristobal Jr. said the country needs an integrated steel mill to support other local industries, particularly shipbuilding and manufacturing of automotive vehicles.

After only two days of debates in plenary, the House of Representatives approved on second reading the controversial divorce bill. The voting was done by viva voce.

The House of Representatives has approved on second reading the bill postponing the barangay elections from May 14 to October 8 this year. A counterpart bill, however, has yet to be filed at the Senate. Several senators have said that there may not be enough time to tackle the measure since Congress will go on break starting March 23 and will return on May 14.

Three members of the Duterte Cabinet will likely join the administration's senatorial ticket in 2019, with his closest aide, Secretary Christopher "Bong" Go, getting solid presidential clearance for it.

while the Duterte administration is in a hurry to get out of the treaty that was ratified via the Philippine Senate's concurrence on August 23, 2011, the process of withdrawing takes time and will not preclude ICC from investigating the President's war on drugs campaign.

The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) will remit more than PHP3 billion in dividends for 2017, surpassing by 30 percent all dividends it remitted to the national government for the past decade including the PHP2.16 billion remitted in 2015.

Skynora Corp., a newly-established Davao City-based firm, has opened a shared office facility and business process outsourcing (BPO) center at the Robinsons Cybergate Delta, catering to the demand of freelancers and online workers and boosting corporate office space here.

Stephen Hawking, who sought to explain some of the most complicated questions of life while himself working under the shadow of a likely premature death, has died at 76.

The Consultative Committee (Concom) tasked by President Rodrigo Duterte to review the 1987 Constitution on Tuesday voted to allow only two relatives within the second degree of consanguinity and affinity to run in the same elections. However, they can only run for one national post and one local position.

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II created on Wednesday a special panel to resolve the motion for reconsideration from the PNP-CIDG of an earlier decision by prosecutors dismissing the complaints against alleged drug lords Peter Lim, Peter Co, Kerwin Espinosa and several others.

The Philippines will resume negotiations with Kuwait this week in Manila to craft a labor agreement providing strong guarantees on the safety and welfare of Filipino household service workers in the Gulf state, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) announced on Tuesday.

Pope Francis has appointed a new bishop of the Diocese of Kabankalan in Negros Occidental. Monsignor Louie Galbines, 51, will be the third bishop of the diocese. He has been serving as the vicar general of the Diocese of Bacolod.