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Philstar Global, operating as Philstar.com, is a Philippine news website owned by Philstar Global Corporation, a subsidiary of Hastings Holdings/Philstar Media Group under MediaQuest Holdings. The site began online in 2000 as a repository for The Philippine Star and its sister newspapers, before it began publishing its own news articles since 2009.
2023 in the Philippines details notable events that occurred in the Philippines in 2023. On July 21, 2023, President Bongbong Marcos announced that the government will formally lift the COVID-19 state of public health emergency, marking the end of the three years of the pandemic.
The economy of the Philippines is an emerging market, and considered as a newly industrialized country in the Asia-Pacific region. [31] In 2025, the Philippine economy is estimated to be at ₱29.66 trillion ($507.6 billion), making it the world's 31st largest by nominal GDP and 11th largest in Asia according to the International Monetary Fund .
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) announced that it would provide ₱30-billion ($581-million) worth of advance payment to its accredited health facilities for health care providers to obtain the liquid capital required to efficiently respond to the crisis. PhilHealth also subsided some of its policies on its members; it ...
The Philippine Star (self-styled The Philippine STAR) is an English-language newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the Philstar Media Group. First published on July 28, 1986, by veteran journalists Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal, it is one of several Philippine newspapers founded after the 1986 People Power Revolution.
At least 13 people have died in the Philippines due to tropical storm Yagi, while schools and government offices were closed in Manila and nearby provinces on Tuesday because of expected bad weather.
Following the Asian economic crisis in 1997, the 2008 crisis imposed new challenges to the Philippines as a developing country. The following are expositions of the macroeconomic impacts of the crisis on the Philippines, its implications in the prevalent poverty scenario, and policies and programs undertaken by the government in response to the ...
Savings interest rates today: Money can't buy love, but sweet returns of up to 4.50% APY comes close — Feb. 14, 2025. lifestyle. ... In Other News. Entertainment. Entertainment. People.