Middle East Updates
Developments in the Mideast war and its impact on Asia-Pacific
CAIRO—Iran on Saturday swiftly reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz, after the United…
Paris, FRANCE—Near Singapore, thousands of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, ship-to-ship transfers of Iranian…
President Marcos on Saturday asked oil companies to fully implement rollbacks on fuel products as…
Retail food prices remain relatively stable despite higher farm input costs caused by the ongoing…
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has disbursed at least P1.5 billion in relief assistance to…
It’s not just balance sheets and operations that are absorbing the spillover from the Middle…
WASHINGTON—The US Treasury Department on Friday extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments…
In a previous column (“Exiting the trap,” Inquirer, 3/22/26), I wrote that perhaps someone like…
Another double-digit rollback for diesel, potentially dropping its prices to below P130 per liter, could…
The Philippines has repatriated 6,706 nationals from several Middle Eastern posts as of Friday amid…
