Rustan’s Beauty Hall gets prettied up
RUSTAN’s annual Beauty Addict event served as the formal launch of the newly renovated Beauty Hall in the department store chain’s Makati flagship. While...
Maharlika expected to generate 100,000 jobs
THE Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) is expected to generate 100,000 direct and indirect jobs as its initial capitalization becomes fully paid in over the...
Wild comedy Poor Things wins top prize at Venice Festival
VENICE — Poor Things, a gothic, sex-charged comedy directed by Greece’s Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival...
Steady earnings awaited for listed energy firms
EARNINGS of listed energy companies are expected to be steady in the second half of the year if no unforeseen developments arise towards year-end,...
ACEN set to triple investments in Australia’s energy transition
ACEN Corp. is on track in its renewable energy expansion in Australia and is poised to triple its investments in the country’s energy transition,...
SEC warns public versus investment-taking firms SERP Worldwide, Sprhy
THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) cautioned the public against investing in two entities, which the regulator said are unauthorized to solicit investments.
In...
The Velocity Q&A: Kidd Yam (Corporate Affairs Director BMW Group Asia)
THE CHANG INTERNATIONAL Circuit, the first FIA Grade 1 circuit in Thailand, is located in BuriramProvince right in the lower northeast region of the country — some 400 kilometers from Bangkok.
Losing momentum
By Pia Rodrigo and Filomeno S. Sta. Ana III
In last week’s Yellow Pad column (Sept. 4) entitled “Erosion of reforms,” we raised our concern over the attempts to subvert and derail past...
AboitizPower begins fleet electrification
By Kap Maceda Aguila
CONSISTENCY is key and, from a corporate standpoint, surely an ideal virtue to help better drive home what it stands for or espouses. In the case of Aboitiz Power Corp. (more simply, AboitizPower) which collects the Aboitiz Group’s interests in power generation, distribution, and retail electricity services — consistency means seeing to it that aspirations to sustainability suffuse the totality of its operations.
Palay farmgate price seen falling further in major rice growing center Nueva Ecija
THE farmgate prices of palay, or unmilled rice, is expected to continue declining to P15-16 per kilogram (kg) as supply expands during the harvest,...
Rates of Treasury bills, bonds likely to decline
RATES of Treasury bills (T-bills) and bonds on offer this week could track secondary market movements after faster-than-expected inflation last month.
The Bureau of the...
Managing the current rice price crisis without reversing the Rice Tariffication Law
By Ramon L. Clarete
The global rice market is going through a price crisis, which, in my view, is still beginning relative to that in 2008. It is...