College basketball star Eric Farinas’s Java Hotel in Laoag is why you should go on a trip to Ilocos now, if you can Last week, we arrived from a 10-day culinary tour of Northern Luzon. It was the longest yet most fun work I had done ever for our food show "Foodprints." The surprises of new food...
Legal teams from the country’s top law firms are ganging up on domestic labor union Philippine Metalworkers Alliance (PMA) stressing the workers are not domestic automotive manufacturers and therefore have no authority and personality to represent the local industry in the safeguard measure case...
Meralco head coach Norman Black (MB File Photo) Meralco stressed that its three-player trade with Blackwater is a win-win situation for the two teams as they gear up for the upcoming 46th season of the PBA. This after the league trade committee headed by deputy commissioner Eric Castro...
AC Energy Corporation (ACEN), the energy investment platform of the Ayala group, is queuing up to 2.0 billion primary shares for its follow-on offering (FOO) that shall be priced at P6.00 to P8.20 per share. The company said its FOO had already been green-lighted by its Executive Committee, upon...
GOMO blazes into 2021 with the launch of their special streetwear collaboration with fashion-forward Filipino brand Don’t Blame the Kids Apparel Co. or DBTK. The capsule collection, available on January 30, was inspired by GOMO and DBTK’s shared message of inspiring the youth to pursue their...
Ayala-led AC Energy Corporation (ACEN) will be completing its series of P30 billion worth of equity-based fund raising activity by concretizing the third leg via a follow-on offering (FOO) this year. In a briefing with reporters, AC Energy President and CEO Eric T. Francia noted that the P30...
Former Chooks-to-Go 3x3 commissioner Eric Altamirano was formally tapped as tournament director of the PBA’s own 3x3 tournament which starts this year. Alaska team governor Dickie Bachmann, who chairs the PBA 3x3 committee, bared that he and Altamirano are scheduled to meet next week to begin...
DITO CME Holdings Corporation, the communications, media and entertainment unit of Davao businessman Dennis A. Uy, has teamed up with CloudSwyft to put up an online education platform. In a statement, DITO CME said it has signed a joint venture agreement with...
K-pop stars in Manila in 2020: (clockwise) Eric Nam, Kim Myung Soo, Tiffany Young, WINNER, Seventeen and NCT Dream (Photos: Jonathan Hicap, YG Entertainment) Before the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic spread in the Philippines, several K-pop stars were able to visit and perform in the...
Ayala-owned upstream petroleum firm ACE Enexor Inc. has kicked off its search for a deep-pocketed and technically experienced partner for its planned oil and gas exploration venture at an offshore block in Northwest Palawan. ACE Enexor Chairman and CEO Eric T. Francia “We’re beginning to...
Ayala-owned AC Energy Philippines is breaking free from coal-fired generating facilities, hence, it is casting the divestment of its shareholdings in the 1,336-megawatt Dinginin power project and the 360MW Mariveles coal plant, its...
The energy investment arm of the Ayala Group will be raising additional US$500 million to US$600 million from its targeted cash-raising activities next year, so it can cover the bulk of equity that it will need to inject on its targeted renewable energy (RE) projects in the Philippines and...
