The price of WiMax CPEs (customer premise equipment) must fall to a cost-effective level for operators before the masses in rural areas of the Philippines can access the wireless broadband standard.

In Mabini, Davao de Oro Province, indigenous peoples (IPs) used to manually produce only a few hundred kilograms of abaca fiber, which is used for making ropes, twines, fishing lines, and other marine ...

A Catholic missionary group in the Philippines marked its 50th anniversary this week by renewing its commitment to serving the poor in rural areas. The Rural Missionaries of the Philippines (RMP), a ...

The central bank, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), has moved to boost banking services in rural regions by lifting restrictions on the number of branches small lenders are allowed to operate, while ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the intersection of tech and social progress in Asia. To the unknowing eye, water hyacinth plants are beautiful. The ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Asia-Pacific news every morning. With the Philippines’ consumption-driven economic boom showing no signs of abating, modern retail ...

More rural banks are consolidating their operations to boost the financial strength of the industry amid the initiatives of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to improve the risk management of ...

How do Filipinos like to spend their money and how happy are they? Recently, media and consumer research groups Kantar Media, TNS Philippines and Kantar World Panel held an industry presentation at ...

Analie, a 15-year old farm girl in the southern Philippine province of Cotabato, stopped going to school last year. The money her parents saved for her education was spent during the last planting ...

Digital payment fintech Payoneer is helping working-age people in the Philippine countryside—many of them without a college degree, access to financial services, or transportation—secure gainful ...