Volume of intellectual property (IP) applications at the IP Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) in 2022 registered a new record-high, exceeding the pre-pandemic level, as the Philippine economy showed a strong growth momentum where IP is leveraged as a capital for resilient growth. IPOPHL Director...
The Bureau of the Treasury borrowed partially despite the drop in benchmark yields for short-term loans. At Monday's auction of Treasury bills on April 3, the national government raised P12.8 billion, below the P15 billion plan for the week. The 91-day Treasury bill rate decreased to 5.045...
The University of the Philippines Board of Regents (UP BOR) on Monday, April 3, elected UP College of Law Dean and lawyer Edgardo Carlo Vistan II as the next UP Diliman chancellor. Courtesy of Philippine Collegian This was announced by UP President Angelo Jimenez after the board's four-hour...
The national government’s budget deficit increased at a snail’s pace in February as public spending unchanged on the back of lower collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR). Data from the Bureau of the Treasury showed Monday, April 3, that the national government’s fiscal deficit...
The consul general of the United States (US) Embassy in the Philippines said that the visa application processing was “almost” back to normal levels after several months of backlogs created by the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors. Mark McGovern, consul general of the US Embassy in Manila,...
FROM THE MARGINS This is Holy Week, a time for us to celebrate the Lord’s passion, death and resurrection. Like many Filipinos, I am taking a step back from the usual grind to reflect on how to be a good Christian in today’s world. As I look back on my journey as a poverty eradication advocate,...
REFLECTIONS TODAY Mary’s anointing of Jesus anticipates three crucial events in John’s passion narrative. First, as the response of Jesus to Judas suggests, the anointing anticipates his death and burial. Jesus will be anointed again before he is laid in the tomb (19:38-42). Second, the...
Senator Francis Tolentino on Sunday, April 2 said the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) should take into account the Supreme Court (SC) and the 2016 Hague Arbitral rulings if it pushes through with the plan to have another round of exploratory talks with the People's Republic of China. ...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has urged Malacañang to thoroughly study the proposed reforms in the military pension saying it should only apply to new entrants or those who will join the military in the future. Go made the appeal as the Marcos government’s finance managers expressed...
"Mr. President, what do you do every day?" This was the subject of President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr.'s 240th vlog post, giving the public a glance at the daily life of the country's leader. According to the President, the question was sent to his email by a child, and he thought it would be...
HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRIPEVINE: OUR NEW ABNORMAL Ever since the aerial photographs of the ongoing Manila Bay reclamation spread on social media earlier in the year, reclamation has been one of the negative buzzwords of today. And to be quite honest, I both understood, and didn’t understand, what...
REFLECTIONS TODAY The passion narrative tells us the culminating drama of Jesus’ salvific act. It unfolds the drama with a cast of characters: there are the main protagonists, the bad guys and the good guys, the bystanders and extras. They represent the different types of persons in the drama of...
