Lawyers will have to pay 50 percent more for their membership fees at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) starting on Jan. 1, 2024. From the P2,000 annual membership fee, the amount will increase to P4,000, while the lifetime membership fee will increase to...
In line with the 172 nd anniversary celebration of Ayala-led Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), the bank’s wealth management arm, BPI Wealth, announced the launch of the first 8.8 BPI Investival 2023. This campaign is dedicated to promoting the culture of investing and empowering...
Integrated Bar of the Philippines The Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) has urged its members to participate and submit their views or comments on the seven applicants for presiding justice of the Court of Appeals (CA). Incumbent CA...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, has agreed to invest $250 million in a green bond to be issued by Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) of the Ayala Group. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, BPI said this is the biggest deal IFC has done with a...
The Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) welcomed The Samal Shores Residenza, the first-ever 31-hectare luxury residential estate on Samal Island on Wednesday, August 8. Business Development and Special Projects Vice President Celedonio Pile Jr. said during the groundbreaking ceremony that the...
Senators on Wednesday, August 9, lauded President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s move to suspend nearly all reclamation projects in Manila Bay. President Marcos has suspended the ongoing Manila Bay reclamation activities except for one pending the review of the Department of...
The Korean dramas “King the Land” and “D.P.” season 2 landed on Netflix’s Global Top 10 list again while “The Uncanny Counter Season 2: Counter Punch” made its debut. Netflix released the latest weekly Global Top 10 list of the most watched shows and films on the platform from...
Japan Ambassador Koshikawa Kazuhiko and Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique A. Manalo signed the exchange of notes for the Project for Human Resource Development Scholarship by Japanese Grant Aid (JDS) on July 23, 2023. The grant, amounting to JPY 313 million (approximately P127 million), will fund...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The cold-shoulder treatment from Jesus in this reading is completely unexpected. The loving and compassionate Jesus we have known ignores the Canaanite woman! But she is unshakable. She prays persistently, confident that she will be heard. This woman is a foreigner, holding...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL We are celebrating the “Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa.” During the remaining days of August, we will witness special organized events designed to reawaken our consciousness of and love for the mother tongue which, in this case, is the Filipino language based on the Tagalog...
Senator Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay is now pushing for a bill that seeks to strictly enforce the standards in the creation and changing of official seals and logos in government. Sen. Maria Lourdes Nancy Binay (Senate PRIB Photo) Binay has filed Senate Bill No. 2384 which seeks to...
ONE FOR THE ROAD Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? Simply put, the Dead Internet Theory suggests that a significant portion of the Internet, once bustling with human-generated content and interaction, is quickly becoming a hollow echo chamber dominated by artificially generated content...
