After a pandemic-induced hiatus, the Grand Wine Experience returns
HALTED by the pandemic, the Grand Wine Experience is coming back with a bang after three years.
There was a press preview earlier this week...
BSP proposes framework for merchant payment acceptance
THE CENTRAL BANK is looking to establish a regulatory framework for merchant payment acceptance activities for financial institutions looking to provide these services, a...
Canon Philippines banks on business imaging solutions for firm’s growth
CANON Marketing (Philippines), Inc. (CMPI) aims to be a P5.5-billion solutions selling firm by 2026, with the expansion of its automated business imaging offerings...
Is Philippines ready for alcohol-free wine?
By Sherwin A. Lao
WINE is described as the fermented juice of grapes, with the operative word being “fermented.” Simply put, when grape juice does not go through...
Yields on term deposits climb as offer goes undersubscribed
YIELD on the term deposit facility (TDF) of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) rose on Wednesday due to low demand ahead of the...
Half-rice order
By Marvin Tort
According to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), in its Food Waste Index Report for 2021, the world generated “around 931 million tons of...
Dining In/Out (11/16/23)
Gourmet Giving chefs offer special dinners for charity
INSPIRED by the idea of hapag — sharing a meal with people you love — Txoko Asador...
Tonik expands partnership with Genesys
TONIK DIGITAL Bank, Inc. (Tonik) has expanded its partnership with global cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services provider Genesys to improve its customer service.
Under...
As inflation cools, Fed seen cutting rates in May
COOLING INFLATION will allow the US Federal Reserve to forgo any more interest rate hikes and indeed to start cutting rates by May, traders...
China claims world’s fastest internet with 1.2-terabit-per-second network
HUAWEI Technologies Co. and China Mobile Ltd. have built a 3,000-kilometer (1,860-mile) internet network linking Beijing to the south, which the country is touting...
Energizing growth via grid ‘demonopolization’ and ‘declimatism’ policies
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
As discussed in this column last Tuesday, the Philippines was the fastest-growing among the top 40 largest economies in the world in Q1-Q3 of 2023. We need to sustain this growth as economies that heavily pivoted to decarbonization and “climatism” (the belief that human use of fossil fuels destroys the Earth’s climate) are either crawling (below 1% growth) or contracting, especially the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, and Sweden.
Civility in the workplace
By Tony Samson
MAYBE courtesy and the effort to be mild-mannered and gracious with colleagues and subordinates had been a liability in the past — He’s just...