New research from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI ...

The poverty incidence among families in Western Visayas dropped to 9.8 percent in 2023 from 12.1 percent in 2021, according ...

Twenty-six state universities and colleges (SUCs) and other stakeholders have committed to support poverty alleviation and ...

Police in the Philippines say they've launched a search after gunmen reportedly abducted an American national who was shot in ...

Philippines Police have started a search operation following the reported abduction of American national, Elliot Onil Eastman.

A new report says more than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live ...

A staggering 455 million of the world’s poor live in countries exposed to violent conflict, hindering and even reversing hard ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. approved the Department of Health's (DoH) flagship program to rebuild a resilient and ...

The former mayor of a sleepy farming town is at the centre of a criminal investigation that has gripped the nation. An ex-mayor accused of spying for China and having ties with criminal syndicates ...

Poor credit affects other areas of life too. Finding a decent place to rent or landing a good job becomes harder, piling on more obstacles to getting ahead financially. Access to affordable financial ...

Thousands of foreign workers at the outlawed firms were given two months to leave the Philippines. In the Oct 3 raid, 190 Chinese, two Taiwanese and 62 Filipinos were detained at the offices of a ...