HANOI — Team Sibol came through with the Philippines’ first esports gold late on Wednesday night and is expecting more medals in 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) at the Vietnam National Convention Center.

HANOI — Christine Hallasgo capped the Philippine athletics team’s campaign in the 31st Southeast Asian Games (SEAG) at the My Dihn National Stadium with a silver in the marathon.

HANOI — With singles gold medalist Merwin Tan leading the way, the men’s bowling team sparkled on Thursday, adding a second victory to the Philippine campaign in the 31st Southeast Asian Games by ruling the team-of-4 event.

BANK of the Philippine Islands (BPI) has approved a new P100-billion bond program to help diversify its funding sources and boost its sustainability drive.

TECHNOLOGY company Cisco Systems, Inc. said its research has indicated a 92% preference for hybrid work in the Philippines, saying that technology has established itself as an enabler of alternative work configurations, though it called for such arrangements to be supported by “end-to-end security.”

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) is proposing guidelines for banks’ integration of sustainability principles in their investment activities.

To better understand your question we need to go back through history. People management started with the “cabo” system or the master-slave relationship during the period of Spanish colonization. “Cabos” acted as suppliers of cheap labor to small employers. Today, such an arrangement is known as the illegal practice of labor-only contracting, which facilitates the abuse of employees.

PHILIPPINE Stock Exchange (PSE)-listed DFNN, Inc. is poised for additional investments in data centers along with its partners from Silicon Valley, California. The tech firm is investing in the latest technologies to boost its platforms and software solutions for enterprise, e-government, and retail clients.

SHARES slid on Thursday following Wall Street’s decline overnight and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ (BSP) announcement of a 25-basis-point (bp) increase in borrowing costs at its policy review.

THE National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) said it recommends that the next government, to be led by top presidential vote-getter Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., continue with the Rice Tariffication Law and use it as a model for other agricultural reforms.

THE HEAD of the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has called for the suspension of the excise tax on coal and petroleum products to immediately bring down the cost of electricity.

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT debt as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to peak at 66.8% by 2024, the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) said in a recent discussion paper.