The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) issued a clarification Monday that there will be no grace period for loan payments during the seven-day enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) status while on Holy Week break. The BSP told banks who made the inquiry that the 30-day grace period under the Bayanihan...
Meet the characters and the cast of the soon-to-be-released movie adaptation of DC’s ‘Black Adam’ In 2019, “Shazam!” hit the cinemas and emerged as a box office success. A year later, Warner Bros. released the schedule along with the main cast of the project, which Jaume Collete-Serra is...
Chess never stops with or without lockdown. The National Chess Federation of the Philippines (NCFP) will give Filipino chess players something to look forward to amid the pandemic as it lined up a series of online tournaments this year. The first one launched was the Southern Luzon Leg of the...
The Boyz’s Sunwoo (Twitter) A Korean netizen and hater has apologized to K-pop boy band The Boyz member Sunwoo for spreading lies that he was a bully and he assaulted his girlfriend while he was in middle school. The lying netizen uploaded a handwritten apology online and said that he posted the...
Last January, SM Investments Corporation was one of 380 companies across 11 sectors included in the 2021 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI). This was the second time SM was cited in the said index, which measures gender equality across five pillars: female leadership and talent pipeline, equal...
Top seeds Laguna and Iloilo bested their rivals to advance to their respective division finals of the Professional Chess Association of the Philippines (PCAP) All Filipino Conference Saturday, March 27. The Laguna Heroes edged the fourth-seeded Manila Indios Bravos in their Armageddon duel in the...
Sarah Geronimo Sarah Geronimo did not disappoint on the one-night virtual event “Tala: The Film Concert,” that was streamed on KTX.ph and iWantTFC last Saturday. The majority of the concert lineup consisted of Sarah’s original songs beginning with “Sa Iyo.” One of her biggest hits in...
A FRONT AGAINST CANCER The leaders of the coalition link arms while the members are at their backs Happy Palm Sunday to all you readers! We can't have the Holy Week processions and outdoor “pabasa” but try to make do at home. Go to on-stream masses and retreats for this Holy Week. Remember what...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng As I’m writing this, I’ve just been admitted at the hospital for my prostate cancer procedure, and I’m doubly frustrated because beyond the standard trepidation over the Brachytherapy procedure which entails me going under...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares A number of young people usually approach me about a year before elections. They come to ask for advice. Some want counsel on whether or not they should aspire for an elective post. Others ask me how they can win in an election. I never give a direct, on-point...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House The mounting violence and racism against Asian Americans, including Filipinos, in various parts of the US are deeply troubling. Reports said that from March 2020 to February 2021, some 3,800 incidents of physical assault, verbal...
Roman Wilson (right), former Princeton football player and American contender for ONE: The Apprentice and Filipina wife Carmina Mancenon. (ONE Championship) Roman Wilson, an American contender for ONE Championship's edition of "The Apprentice," has kept his close connection to the Philippines...
