MANILA, Philippines — The "Gold of Ancestors" exhibit in the Ayala Museum is getting a temporary expansion after the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) loaned 38 pre-colonial goldworks for a "new ...

The lack of nonfarm jobs is a legacy of policies from colonial powers that once ruled the Philippines. In the Philippines, the U.S. tested policies like pegging currency values to gold.

It’s a man’s world mining gold in the Philippines – but it’s the women who come off worst. Be it cooking toxic pans of mercury, scouring mud pools for cheap slivers of hope or sluicing the ...

Gold extraction pays poorly for women such as Leny Lieo, who was hired in February to sluice gold, a task commonly reserved for Sagada women. Lieo, 49, said she works an eight-hour day at the ...