MANILA: Removing the foreign investment restrictions on higher educational institutions (HEIs) in the 1987 Constitution can have a big impact on human capital development, Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said.

Gatchalian made the statement in response to …

MANILA: Department of Energy (DOE) top and senior officials said the agency is targeting to get a 1,200-megawatt installed power capacity from nuclear resources using small modular reactor (SMR) technologies by 2032.

This was confirmed by DOE Secreta…

MANILA: Beachgoers at Banahao area in Barangay Sabang, Surigao City, were treated to a display of nature’s beauty Thursday evening after witnessing an Olive Ridley sea turtle nesting and laying eggs on a black sand beach.

The Olive Ridley, known for …

MANILA: Maco municipality in Davao de Oro ended the search and retrieval operations in the landslide in Barangay Masara at 5 p.m. Thursday.

The landslide at Zone 1 in Barangay Masara claimed 98 lives, while eight persons remained missing.

In an exec…

MANILA: The Odysseus lander on Thursday became the first US spacecraft in more than a half century to land on the moon.

Intuitive Machines, the Houston, Texas-based company that built the craft, became the first commercial enterprise to ever land a s…

MANILA: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said PHP510 million worth of coins have been deposited through its coin deposit machines (CoDMs).

The BSP said the amount is equivalent to 145.5 million pieces of coins from over 134,000 transactions.

BS…

MANILA: The implementation of the increase in the premium contributions of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (PhilHealth) is still under review, Malacañang said Friday.

In a statement, Communications Secretary Cheloy Garafil said President Ferdin…

MANILA: The Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) on Friday appealed to the House of Representatives to be prudent when deliberating on its own version of the legislated wage hike bill.

In an interview, ECOP president Sergio Ortiz-Luis J…