PHILIPPINE ports and gaming tycoon Enrique Razon, Jr. on Tuesday launched an up to P28-billion ($515 million) initial public offering (IPO) for his infrastructure and energy holding firm, according to a corporate filing.

BRUSSELS — When coronavirus forced some of France’s busiest museums to close their doors in 2020, it was a rare chance for reflection.

LISTA Technologies Pte. Ltd., which operates a financial management platform for small business owners and individuals in the Philippines, announced on Tuesday that it had raised more than $5.1 million in its latest fund-raising round to accelerate the expansion of its services.

HONG KONG — Bryan Ong has made it his mission to preserve items that tell the story of Hong Kong’s British colonial past even as Beijing increasingly shapes life in the city that is firmly back in the fold of the mainland.

TO AVOID liver cancer, individuals who are overweight, diabetic, or hypertensive should strive to lose enough pounds to stay within the healthy range, get vaccinated against hepatitis B, and drink alcohol in moderation (or skip it altogether). 

TANGHALANG Huseng Batute at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) opened its doors to the public for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit for the first weekend of live performances for the 17th Virgin Labfest (VLF): Hinga, the theater festival of untried, untested, and unstaged plays.

GYMNASTICS dynamo Carlos “Caloy” Yulo has won almost everything.

BEIJING — A small Chinese study detailed in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal showed neutralizing antibodies against some Omicron sub-variants were largely undetectable after two doses of a Sinopharm coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine, with a booster shot only partly restoring them.  

NLEX relishes its chance at payback as it faces Barangay Ginebra on Wednesday in an explosive dispute for solo second in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup at the MOA Arena.

TO CURB illicit drug use in the Philippines and reintegrate former drug dependents into society, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Department of Health (DoH) inaugurated a five-hectare treatment and rehabilitation facility on June 14 in Barangay Osorio, Trece Martires City, Cavite.  

ALEX M. Eala reached a new career-best ranking in the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), barging inside the Top 350 for the first time following a stellar campaign in Spain over the weekend.

THE GOVERNMENT partially awarded the fresh Treasury bonds (T-bonds) it offered on Tuesday as players continued to ask for higher returns on expectations of more rate hikes from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and the US Federal Reserve.