The Olympic dream of Gilas Pilipinas, the country's national basketball team, is at stake in the make-or-break FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) with 24 teams vying for the final four slots in the Olympic Games Paris 2024. (Contributed photo) To bring Filipinos closer to the action, mobile...
Mason Amos is looking to prove his worth in the national team following his second Gilas Pilipinas call-up ahead of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament in July. Mason Amos (FIBA) The 19-year-old Ateneo big man, who was initially added to the pool as a reserve, has been...
Naomi Panganiban dazzled with an all-around performance as the Gilas Pilipinas Girls team drubbed Lebanon, 89-63, to pick up its second win in as many games in the 2024 FIBA Women’s U18 Asia Cup at the Futian Sports Park in Shenzhen, China on Tuesday, June 25. Naomi Panganiban slashes through...
With the robust infrastructure development buildout being cast by the government, Shell Pilipinas Corporation is eyeing brisk growth of 6.0 to 10-percent for its bitumen volume sales across major projects that it will be supplying to. In a briefing with reporters, Shell Country Business...
Consumers’ drive to the gas pumps entails new wave of financial pain, as prices will be on uptick again, based on the pricing advisories of the industry players. According to the price adjustment notices sent by the oil companies, the price of diesel products will rise by P1.75 per liter; while...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (center) leads the distribution under the SIBOL program. (Speaker’s office) BISLIG CITY, Surigao del Sur--Over 6,000 residents here received rice and cash assistance Friday under three separate programs that sought to assist...
For Topex Robinson, Kevin Quiambao’s stint with Gilas Pilipinas is nothing short of a blessing for De La Salle. La Salle head coach Topex Robinson and Kevin Quiambao (UAAP Media) The 49-year-old tactician continued to cherish the reigning UAAP MVP’s active role in the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) BISLIG CITY, Surigao del Sur--The 20th Bagong Pilipinas Serbisyo Fair (BPSF) was held here in the province Friday, June 21 to cap the service caravan's Mindanao swing, at least for now. Expected to...
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara has filed a bill seeking to grant Philippine citizenship to Nigerian-born Favour Ogechukwu Onoh. Onoh, University of the Philippines women’s basketball team center, would be a valuable addition to the Gilas Pilipinas with her youth, tenacity and...
A combination of easing inflation pressures and slowing economic growth will allow the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to cut interest rates beginning the third quarter, think tank Capital Economics said. Across emerging Asian economies, "central banks have recently started to sound more dovish,...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) will likely keep the policy rate at 6.5 percent next week while the central bank navigates around a weak peso and a hawkish US Federal Reserve, global banks said. "Another central bank that may be under pressure to review its rate stance next week is the...
Gilas Pilipinas men’s and women’s teams raked in valuable points after their respective campaigns in the Nations League Asia 2 tournament in Handan Shi, China. In the latest Under-23 rankings of FIBA 3x3, the men's squad landed at 35th place while the young female dribblers took the 28th spot....
