University of the Philippines bucked a slow start to edge National University, 80-70, and notch its second straight win in the UAAP Season 84 men's basketball tournament at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City Thursday, March 31. Ricci Rivero (UAAP Media Bureau) Ricci Rivero, one of the key cogs...
Malacañang has assailed the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) after it called for global Magnitsky sanctions on the so-called "Dirty Dozen" of rights violators in the country including President Duterte. The International Coalition for Human Rights in the...
The Philippine Stock Exchange has approved Union Bank of the Philippines’ planned stock rights offering worth up to P40 billion. In a disclosure, the bank said the PSE has approved UBP’s application to list up to 800 million additional common shares to cover its stock rights offering to al...
Government debt continued to snowball in February, driven mainly by both domestic and offshore borrowings as well as foreign exchange fluctuations. The Bureau of the Treasury reported Thursday, March 31, that the outstanding debt of the national government stood at P12.093 trillion as of February,...
PH in the top five countries with the highest pneumonia deaths Medical experts led by researchers from the University of the Philippines College of Public Health (UP-CPH) urgently called for a review of the 13-year-old pneumonia vaccine strategy to protect children against one of the leading killer...
The national government’s budget deficit narrowed in February this year owing to lower public spending. Data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed that the government incurred a P105.8 billion fiscal gap during the month, down by nine percent from P116 billion in February 2021. The slimmer...
'Sonic the Hedgehog 2' If you ask me to look back and pick two comedy geniuses, whose talent overshot the screens that would try and capture them - whether the big screen of the cinema, or in our television at home - the two that would immediately come to mind are Robin Williams and Jim Carrey....
President Duterte said he would not be surprised if some police officers were involved in the disappearance of several sabungeros, adding that scalawags in the service cannot be avoided. President Rodrigo Duterte (Presidential Photo) "I'm not surprised. I'm sure you are not also, kasi minsan may...
“Bridgerton” season 2 debuted at No. 1 and set a record on Netflix while the Korean drama “Business Proposal” became the most viewed non-English show for the second week. The No. 1 shows and films on Netflix from March 21 to 27 are (clockwise from top left) "Bridgerton’ season 2,...
Heightened domestic demand is expected to cushion the impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the economy in the first semester of the year, First Metro Investment Corp. (FMIC) and the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P) said in a joint report. FMIC and UA&P said that while Russian...
President Duterte justified his decision not to suspend the operations of online sabong in the country as it is generating billions of income for the government and not because he has connections in the industry. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key...
President Duterte said it is during the administration of the late President Corazon Aquino that the rich started to use the party-list system to get elected to Congress. President Rodrigo Roa Duterte talks to the people after holding a meeting with key government officials at the Arcadia Active...
