In June 2024, Del Prado reported that the unemployment rate stood at 3.1 percent, with an estimated 1.62 million Filipinos jobless. Department of Economy, Planning, and Development Secretary Arsenio ...

MANILA, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos on Wednesday ordered the suspension of rice importation for 60 days beginning Sept. 1 to protect Filipino farmers during this ...

TOKYO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Japan's real wages dropped 1.3 percent year-on-year in June, marking the sixth straight month of decline as wage growth failed to keep pace with inflation despite the summer ...

VLADIVOSTOK, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- A dam has been destroyed near the Klyuchevskoy Volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's Far East, raising concerns over potential mudflows and transportation ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- A small medical transport plane crashed and caught fire Tuesday afternoon on the Navajo Nation in the U.S. state of Arizona, killing all four people on board.

BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China's job market has remained stable amid rising global challenges, supported by a range of policy measures from central and local authorities to boost employment and ...

A drone photo taken on Aug. 5, 2025 shows firefighters attending a water surface rescue drill on the Harbin section of ...

JAKARTA, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government will launch a 10.8-trillion-rupiah economic stimulus package in the third quarter to accelerate economic expansion, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani ...

BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The central parity rate of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 43 pips to 7.1409 against the U.S. dollar Wednesday, according to the China Foreign Exchange ...

BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- The following are the central parity rates of the Chinese currency renminbi, or the yuan, against 25 major currencies announced on Wednesday by the China Foreign Exchange ...

MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Sovereign nations have the right to choose their trade and economic partners based on their own interests, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

Published on Tuesday night by the Productivity Commission (PC), the government's independent advisory body on economic, social and environmental issues, the report found that AI will likely increase ...