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)

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

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.

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

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”

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

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

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