DAVAO CITY – Acting Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte said he prefers Singapore’s Changi Airport to take over the Davao International Airport operations through a public-private partnership. In a recent interview with Alvin & Tourism at The Hague, Netherlands, after he visited his father,...
CEBU CITY – Flight schedules at the Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA) were affected due to runway condition checks. In an 6:20 p.m. advisory on Tuesday, Aug. 26, the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) said “teams are conducting inspections and necessary repairs as...
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) welcomed International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Mirjana Spoljaric Egger at its national headquarters in Manila, reaffirming the strong humanitarian partnership between the two organizations. Spoljaric, the first woman to lead the ICRC, was received...
New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC), the private operator of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), said the scheduled hike in passenger service charges (PSC) next month is not an arbitrary move but rather in pursuit of a government mandate. “The PSC adjustment is a government-mandated,...
The nation will commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the martyrdom of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. this year with a solemn wreath-laying ceremony at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 in Parañaque City. In a statement issued Tuesday, August 19, the National Historical...
Real estate giant Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) will be raising ₱10 billion this month from a multilateral sustainability-linked loan as part of the ₱50 billion in funds it will be securing in the second half of the year. In an interview, ALI Chief Finance Officer (CFO) Augusto Bengzon said that ₱30...
“I was thrilled,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Deputy Governor for regional operations and advocacy sector, Bernadette “Berna” Romulo-Puyat, unabashedly shared her feelings about her close encounter with US Federal Reserve (US Fed) Chairman Jerome Powell. DG Berna was among the...
Budget Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman has assured that big-ticket foreign-assisted programs and projects will no longer suffer from delays, given the budget cover included in the proposed 2026 spending plan of the national government. For its part, aid agency Japan International Cooperation Agency...
Alliance Global Group Inc. (AGI), the conglomerate led by tycoon Dr. Andrew L. Tan, reported a 39-percent jump in net income to ₱19.2 billion in the first half of the year, driven largely by the increasing contribution from its real estate business and tourism-related segments, on the back of...
Construction tycoon Francis Lloyd Chua has taken over the chair of the board of directors of Asiabest Group International Inc. and replaced the Japanese directors representing the Okada Group’s Tiger Resort Asia Ltd. This comes after Chua’s Premiumlands Corp. (PLC) acquired control over...
The Philippines, together with the Asia-Pacific region, must play a bigger role in advancing international humanitarian law based on its experiences in addressing past and present humanitarian conflicts, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said on Monday, Aug. 11. Speaking during the 2025 Asia...
Real estate magnate Manuel B. Villar Jr. ranks as the only Filipino in the top 100 of Bloomberg’s Billionaire’s Index, a list of the world’s 500 richest based on their total net worth. Villar placed 99th in the list with a net worth of $23.1 billion, $617 million or 2.7 percent more than a...
