NORTH Star Meat Merchants, Inc. announced on Tuesday that it is deferring its planned initial public offering (IPO) amid concerns about market volatility and inflationary pressures.

WHEN the human king observes a monkey save his troop from an accident on the mango tree they were living in, the human king learns in the end to not only how to be king but to be a servant leader from then on — that is the moral of the story which listeners’ learn from “Ang Haring Matsing” (“The Monkey King”). It is just one of the stories from the Jataka Tales which is now available as a 12-episode podcast.

THE new management operating casino-hotel Okada Manila has denied allegations of violent takeover and kidnapping when it took over the establishment.

WITH or without Kiefer Ravena, NLEX is pumped up to get going in the 2022 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Philippine Cup and build on the gains of its semifinal stint in the previous conference.

THE ORTIGAS Foundation Library is offering conservation services for old maps, rare books, historical papers, family letters and documents at its new home at the McKinley Bldg. (above Unimart) at the Greenhills Shopping Center in San Juan.

OVER 100 works are being offered at Salcedo Auctions’ upcoming “Finer Pursuits: Important Philippine Art & Rare Collectibles” live and online auction on June 25, 2 p.m.

SENIOR CITIZENS, who are more prone to illnesses like influenza and pneumonia which may then worsen other comorbidities (or vice versa), must be vaccinated in order to keep them safe and healthy this rainy season.

THE Philippine Azkals are in high spirits as they kick off their bid in the final round of the 2023 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup Qualifiers against Yemen on Wednesday in Mongolia.

DELHI-BASED Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals recently completed 100 liver transplants on children from the Philippines, 53 of which were done in the last two and a half years despite travel restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. 

WESLEY SO sprang back to life with a scintillating victory over fast-rising Norwegian Aryan Tari in their Armageddon duel of the Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger on Tuesday.

THE GOVERNMENT partially awarded the reissued seven-year Treasury bonds (T-bonds) it offered on Tuesday as investors continued to ask for higher rates after inflation surged above 5% in May.

THE Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday it had instructed monkeypox vaccine manufacturer Bavarian Nordic to deliver an additional 36,000 doses this week as part of a drawdown from a US vaccine stockpile.