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The Philippines needs to boost its medical tourism industry to get a bigger share in the regional medical tourism market Oscar Picazo, senior researc..

Jose Ramon Albert has resigned as director general of the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) after the government consolidated all its sta..

THE country’s infrastructure constraints have been causing inefficiencies in fertilizer prices nationwide, which in turn, have made some agricultura..

The 2009 Survey of Innovation Activities (SIA), the Philippines` pilot survey on innovation and an outcome of the national innovation strategy called ..

A series of regional workshops on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations economic community cited the need to draw up more regionally tailored ind..

On June 12, 2013, during the celebration of the 115th anniversary of the country’s proclamation of independence, President Benigno Aquino III said: ..

The country’s year-on-year inflation rate slowed down to 4.1 percent in February, from 4.2 percent in January. The National Statistics Office (..

The declining enrollment in agriculture, forestry, and natural resources (AFNR) courses is an alarming phenomenon given the unbridled expansion of sta..

GOVERNMENTS generally tend to implement a number of measures or programs to help those with short- or long-term financial or economic problems. These ..

Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph G. Recto tagged yesterday the National Food Authority (NFA) as "inutile’� for failing to protect local farmers ..

A crackdown on rice smuggling in the Philippines is behind a run-up in prices of the country's staple food, some traders and analysts say. Smugglers ..

The poverty situation in the country did not significantly improve despite of the six-percent economic growth posted from 2003 to 2006, according to t..

Officials of the Agriculture department and the National Food Authority are at loggerheads with the Cabinet’s economic chief and a UP think tank on ..

The agri-industry alliance Samahang Industriya ng Agrikultura (SINAG) scored former agriculture officials and trade experts yesterday for sowing fear ..