Businessman Alfredo Yao's Philippine Business Bank (PBB) reported a 39.1 percent jump in net income to P1.82 billion last year from the P1.31 billion earned in 2022 as core income reached P3.1 billion. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE), the bank said its pre-tax...
Runrio Inc. founder Rio Dela Cruz (second from left) speaks during a press briefing in Manila on April 15, 2024 for the "Takbo para sa West Philippine Sea" event. With him are (L-R) Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Director General Jose Torres Jr., National Task Force for WPS spokesperson...
(Mark Balmores/ MANILA BULLETIN) Police officers and other persons of authority should be meted with heavier penalties in the event that they are proven to have a part in covering up heinous crimes. Such is embodied in Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep....
With the local stock market on a seven-day losing streak, there may be some bouts of bargain-hunting this week although investor sentiment will continue to be dampened by concern over rising inflation and its impact on interest rates. “The local market turned more bearish as it breached the 6,700...
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Here's a bold suggestion to President Marcos on the heels of his triumphant participation in the trilateral summit with United States (US) President Joe Biden and Japan Prime...
Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe (PPAB) House Majority Leader Zamboanga City 2nd district Rep. Mannix Dalipe has advised Beijing to "listen" to the Joint Vision Statement released by the leaders of the United States (US), Japan, and the...
Top photo shows Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Romeo Brawner Jr. during his visit to the wake of Lieutenant Jan Kyle Q. Borres and Ensign Izzah Leonah S. Taccad at the Libingan ng Mga Bayani in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig City on April 12, 2024. Below is Vice President Sara Duterte...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) Ranking congressmen from both the majority and the minority blocs in the House of Representatives are eager to get the inquiry on the "gentleman's agreement" on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) underway, if...
Mandaluyong City lone district Rep. Neptali Gonzales II (left), former president Rodrigo Duterte (MANILA BULLETIN/ Malacañang photo) The chairman of the House Special Committee on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) made an important request...
Mandaluyong City lone district Rep. Neptali Gonzales II (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Simply put, the so-called "gentleman's agreement" between former president Rodrigo Duterte and the government of China on the West Philippine Sea (WPS) is...
(L-R) National Security Adviser (NSA) Eduardo Año, Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Enrique Manalo; and US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, and National Security...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Saturday, April 13, strongly condemned the reported ambush of a public school teacher in Mahayag, Zamboanga del Sur this week. (DepEd file photo) “DepEd denounces this senseless act of violence against our teacher and implores concerned authorities to...
