Small investors who were looking for a low-risk, accessible and higher-yielding investment swamped the government’s first onshore issue of retail dollar bonds, the Bureau of the Treasury announced. Based on a report submitted by National Treasurer Rosalia V. de Leon to Finance Secretary Carlos G....
The Duterte administration has substantially reduced new financing last August, taking up only about a fifth of the amount it borrowed from a year earlier, data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed. Gross borrowings only reached P117.74 billion in August which was 81 percent lower or by P495...
Iloilo stretched its winning streak to 10 matches to remain unbeaten in the Southern Division of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines’s (PCAP) third conference online tournament over the weekend. The Iloilo Kisela Knights first crushed the Mindoro Tamaraws, 17-4, then disposed of...
The 2021 The Fact Music Awards ceremony was held on Oct. 2 at the Paradise Hotel and Resort in Jung-gu, Incheon in South Korea. Hosted by The Fact media outlet and Fan N Star, the ceremony had Shin Dong Yup and Seohyun of Girls’ Generation as emcees while Boom took charge of the red carpet event....
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares We laud the initiative by our legislators to pass a law compelling the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to extend deadline for the registration of voters in the 2022 national elections for another 30 days from the signing of that law. As we write this column, it...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month; and for more than a decade, that’s meant something very personal to me in terms of helping my elder sister, Libet C. Virata, and her breast cancer survivor “sisters,” as they turn the...
PEACE-MAKER Former Speaker of the House Jose De Venecia Jr. Since the onslaught of the deadly COVID-19, our wife Gina and we have been staying in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma...
MAN OF RHYTHM Filipino-Australian artist Bryan Estepa If you haven’t heard of Bryan Estepa, now is the perfect time to get to know him and his music. The half-Filipino, half-Aussie indie pop artist has just released his latest EP Back To The Middle . A rockstar of the burgeoning indie music scene...
Marvel Studios’ “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and the Korean action film “On the Line” became the top-grossing films in South Korea for the month of September. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC), which tracks box office receipts, released the list of the top movies in South...
Arthur Nery just certified his hitmaker status with a trending new song. The new single, titled “Pagsamo” – a slow and relaxed tune that sees Nery’s smooth blending of easy-listening jazz, rhythm and blues, soul and lyrical romanticism – is the latest song from the Cagayan De Oro-based...
HOTSPOT Tonyo Cruz If we’re short of funds for much needed vaccination and health care and to propel the pandemic-struck economy, then we should look no further than the suggestion of the think-tank Ibon and the Makabayan bloc in Congress: Tax the billionaires! Surely, the working people and...
Editorial For once in this divisive political climate, all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives voted as one when they unanimously approved a measure extending the voter registration deadline for the national elections in 2022. Senate Bill 2408 was supported by House Bill 10261,...
