What is causing our rice crisis today is a lack of competence and compassion (malasakit), much more than corruption. This surfaced at the hearing of the Senate Committee on ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has urged lawmakers to support amendments to the Rice Tariffication Law (RTL), ...

Telangana’s rice exports have fallen 20-30 per cent in 2025 due to high procurement costs and collapsing domestic demand amid ...

President Marcos has ordered the 60-day suspension of rice importation starting Sept. 1, Malacañang announced yesterday.

The United Nations has lobbied for years to decrease the cost of sending remittances precisely because they are so important ...

PRESIDENT Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. delivered his fourth State of the Nation Address (Sona) at the Batasang Pambansa in ...

Indonesia’s indomitable finance minister, Dr. Mulyani Indrawati, has shaped the nation’s economic destiny for nearly two ...

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. has directed the Rice Industry Development Office (RIDO) to study the changing ...

Vietnamese 5% broken rice, which has lingered below US$400 per ton for months, is now facing further strain as the ...

Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. warned the Vietnam rice industry against challenging the Philippines’ move to suspend all ...

Local farmers already lost P54.5 billion in the first six months of 2025, the Federation of Free Farmers (FFF) said as it asked the government to control rice imports, which are hurting local ...

Last week, Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. linked the recent flooding disaster to the pervasive corruption in the government during his fourth State of the Nation address.