HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPE-VINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Philip Cu Unjieng While the word fodder is defined as food, especially as referring to dry hay or feed for cattle and livestock, it’s slang usage is saying something is fodder for a particular purpose – and what you really mean is that it’s...
Top Rank chief and Hall of Famer promoter Bob Arum is ecstatic for the upcoming world bantamweight bout between unified super WBA and IBF champion Naoya Inoue and Michael Dasmariñas at the Virgins Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday (Manila time). Unified super WBA and IBF bantamweight champion...
Due to health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, Top Frontier Investment Holdings, Inc. will not hold a physical meeting of the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting (ASM). The Company will conduct the ASM via livestream at the Company’s website and will publish the Notice...
Due to health and safety concerns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, Top Frontier Investment Holdings, Inc. will not hold a physical meeting of the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting (ASM). The Company will conduct the ASM via livestream at the Company’s website and will publish the Notice...
As part of its initiative for post-pandemic economic recovery, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) is set to expand its online training program to cover more Filipinos. TESDA TESDA on June 8 signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with The Asia Foundation to bring the Go...
Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte received the highest approval rating among Metro Manila mayors anew in a recent survey. The independent, non-commissioned survey conducted by RP-Mission and Development Foundation Inc.(RPMDinc) showed that Belmonte obtained an approval rating of 89 percent. MANILA...
The Philippine Science High School (PSHS) System cannot help, but be proud of its more than 70 students who have received admission offers from the top and prestigious universities abroad. (PIXABY) The PSHS announced Wednesday, June 2, that 11 more Pisay scholars got offers of admission from...
Sales of the Philippine retailing industry are expected to return to its pre-pandemic level in 2022 yet as the long lockdowns in the country badly affected traditional retailers despite acceleration of e-commerce to an even faster rate in 2020. In the “Top 100 Retailers in Asia 2021” by the...
The Muntinlupa City Council on Monday passed a resolution and an ordinance congratulating and awarding P50,000 to 2nd Lt. Jan Hernan Perez, 22, who placed fourth overall in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) “Masaligan” (MAndirigmang SAmahan na Lakas at SandiGAN ng Bayan) Class of 2021....
BTS’ Jimin, ASTRO’s Chae Eun-woo, and BTS’ V, Jungkook and Jin grabbed the first five places in the latest brand reputation rankings for individual K-pop boy band members for May. The Korea Corporate Research Institute released the rankings on May 15 based on an analysis of 126.05...
Six Philippine companies, led by the Sy family’s SM Investments Corporation and BDO Unibank, made it to Forbes Magazine’s 19th annual Global 2000 list. The list is an international ranking of the world's biggest, most-powerful and most-valuable companies based on an analysis of four metrics:...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Yu Lamentillo When Pigalo Bridge in Isabela was devastated by typhoons Pedring and Quiel in 2011, farmers who wanted to deliver their agricultural products to Manila or Tuguegarao had to take a 76-kilometer detour via Alicia-Angadanan-San Guillermo-Naguilian Road. Residents of...
