BW FILE PHOTOTHE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT’S (NG) outstanding debt ballooned to a record P17.56 trillion at the end of July, breaching its full-year projection for 2025, data from the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) showed.The latest data from the BTr showed outstanding debt surged by 11.9%

Protestors vandalized the gate of the St. Gerrard Construction, a Discaya-owned construction company involved in various anomalous flood control projects, during a rally in Pasig City, Sept. 4. — PHILIPPINE STAR/MIGUEL DE GUZMANTHIRTY BUSINESS GROups on Thursday strongly condemned the continuing and excessive graft and

President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. signs into law Republic Act No. 12253 or the Enhanced Fiscal Regime for Large-Scale Metallic Mining Act in a ceremony at Malacañan Palace, Sept. 4. — NOEL B. PABALATE / PPA POOLBy Erika Mae P. SinakingPHILIPPINE President Ferdinand R. Marcos,

Solar panels are pictured on a floating photovoltaic power plant on lake Silbersee (Lake Silver) in Haltern am See, Germany in this file photo taken on April 11, 2022. — REUTERS/THILO SCHMUELGENBy Sheldeen Joy Talavera, ReporterTHE GOVERNMENT was unable to hit its installation target of

THE 21st edition of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival will screen full-length and short feature films in a competition at Shangri-La Plaza in Mandaluyong City.With the theme “Layag sa alon, hangin, at unos” (To sail through waves, wind, and storms), the festival will have 10

Gael García Bernal in a scene from Lav Diaz’ Magellan.Movie ReviewMagellanDirected by Lav Diaz(Earlier this week the Film Academy of the Philippines and the Film Development Council of the Philippines officially announced that Lav Diaz’  Magellan is the country’s submission to the 98th Academy Awards,

SM SUPERMALLS, a unit of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., is one of Southeast Asia’s largest mall developers with 88 malls in the Philippines. — SM SUPERMALLSBy Sheldeen Joy Talavera, ReporterSM SUPERMALLS is earmarking more than P150 billion in capital expenditure (capex) to fund major redevelopments

REUTERSTHE SLOWER income growth posted by most listed Philippine banks in the second quarter is likely to continue for the remainder of the year as easing interest rates continue to affect their margins.“The slowdown in net income growth was expected, given the environment of declining

1 of 9View great art, listen to a lecture, and have tea at The PenTHE Peninsula Manila has unveiled large-scale artworks by National Artist Federico Aguilar Alcuaz. Curated by Ricky Francisco of Fundacíon Sansó, the latest Art in Resonance program features three never-before seen abstract

BPI FACEBOOK PAGEBANK of the Philippine Islands (BPI) is eyeing to use agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to facilitate parts of its lending process, its top official said.“We are beginning a project where we are going to put our whole lending platform on AI and hopefully

GILBERT GABRIEL F. SANTA MARIA — METRO PACIFIC INVESTMENTS CORP.METRO PACIFIC Investments Corp. (MPIC) has appointed former Philippine Airlines, Inc. (PAL) chief Gilbert Gabriel F. Santa Maria as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC).In a media release on Thursday,

L – R: Mr. Yuta Igarashi (FUJIFILM Philippines, Inc. – General Manager); Ms. Auwie Querri (Philippine Tuberculosis Society, Inc.); Mr. Eugene Caccam (Culion Foundation, Inc.); Ms. Louie Zepeda-Teng (TBpeople Philippines); Mr. Nilo Yacat (Center for Health Solutions and Innovations Philippines, Inc.); Ms. Leah Tambot (Samahan