Pending an upcoming review of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management (IATF) of Emerging Infectious Diseases, the country will remain on its current levels, Malacañang announced.
“The status quo holds for our alert levels, which the IATF will be reviewing on Monday (July18),” Press Secretary Trixie Cruz-Angeles said in a statement.
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The settlement of the country’s foreign currency debt obligations caused the Philippines’s balance of payments (BOP) to post a deficit in February, according to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP).
Voting 277 against three and zero abstention, the House of Representatives on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill that aims to reduce the number of jobless Filipinos by matching their education and skills to available job opportunities.
Low GDP per capita and lack of social support have made the Philippines one of the least happy countries in Asean, according to the results of the latest World Happiness Report (WHR).
The Philippines, a net food importer, widened its agricultural trade deficit by 36.3 percent year-on-year to $3.22 billion in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
