NG outstanding debt surges to record P17.56 trillion as of end-July
BW FILE PHOTOTHE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT’S (NG) outstanding debt ballooned to a record P17.56 trillion at the end of July, breaching its full-year projection for 2025, data from the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) showed. The latest data from the BTr showed
Business groups seek jail time for corrupt officials
Protestors vandalized the gate of the St. Gerrard Construction, a Discaya-owned construction company involved in various anomalous flood control projects, during a rally in Pasig City, Sept. 4. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MIGUEL DE GUZMANTHIRTY BUSINESS GROups on Thursday strongly condemned the
New fiscal regime for mining industry signed into law
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. signs into law Republic Act No. 12253 or the Enhanced Fiscal Regime for Large-Scale Metallic Mining Act in a ceremony at Malacañan Palace, Sept. 4. — NOEL B. PABALATE / PPA POOLBy Erika Mae P.
Large-scale RE auction fails to hit installation target
Solar panels are pictured on a floating photovoltaic power plant on lake Silbersee (Lake Silver) in Haltern am See, Germany in this file photo taken on April 11, 2022. — REUTERS/THILO SCHMUELGENBy Sheldeen Joy Talavera, Reporter THE GOVERNMENT was unable to
Cinemalaya 2025 goes to Shangri-La Plaza
THE 21st edition of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival will screen full-length and short feature films in a competition at Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City. With the theme “Layag sa alon, hangin, at unos” (To sail through waves, wind, and storms),
Killing fields
Gael García Bernal in a scene from Lav Diaz’ Magellan.Movie ReviewMagellanDirected by Lav Diaz (Earlier this week the Film Academy of the Philippines and the Film Development Council of the Philippines officially announced that Lav Diaz’ Magellan is the country’s submission
SM readies P150-B expansion, upgrade push through 2030
SM SUPERMALLS, a unit of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is one of Southeast Asia’s largest mall developers with 88 malls in the Philippines. — SM SUPERMALLSBy Sheldeen Joy Talavera, Reporter SM SUPERMALLS is earmarking more than P150 billion in capital expenditure
Margin pressure to weigh on PHL banks’ earnings growth
REUTERSTHE SLOWER income growth posted by most listed Philippine banks in the second quarter is likely to continue for the remainder of the year as easing interest rates continue to affect their margins. “The slowdown in net income growth was expected,
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1 of 9View great art, listen to a lecture, and have tea at The Pen THE Peninsula Manila has unveiled large-scale artworks by National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz. Curated by Ricky Francisco of Fundacíon Sansó, the latest Art in Resonance program
BPI eyes agentic AI for lending
BPI FACEBOOK PAGEBANK of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is eyeing to use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate parts of its lending process, its top official said. “We are beginning a project where we are going to put our whole lending