Passportify?
By Marvin A. Tort
We might yet see the advent of an application by 2019, to be available on mobile phones, that can allow Filipino citizens to renew...
Mining tax and TRAIN
By Bienvenido S. Oplas, Jr.
“Government does not tax to get the money it needs; government always finds a need for the money it gets.”
-- Ronald Reagan,
former US president
Under...
Expert: Withdrawal from ICC to make PHL ‘pariah’
THE PHILIPPINES’ withdrawal from the Rome Statute, a treaty which created the International Criminal Court (ICC), will make the country a “pariah” state, an...
House OK’s on 2nd reading bill postponing barangay, SK polls
By Minde Nyl R. dela Cruz
THE BILL seeking to postpone the synchronized barangay and sangguniang kabataan (SK) elections from May 14 to Oct. 8...
MWSS flags lack of sewerage coverage in Metro Manila
By Victor V. Saulon Sub-Editor
THE Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) is asking the help of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)...
Stocks decline to track Wall Street on Tillerson
SHARES fell on Wednesday as the lack of catalysts in the local front, alongside tensions in the United States’ political scene, continued to put pressure...
Peso weakens vs dollar on strong US CPI report
THE PESO weakened against the dollar on Wednesday due to strong US inflation data and offshore geopolitical noise.
The local currency ended yesterday’s session at...
Kings eye 2-2 series
By Michael Angelo S. Murillo
Senior Reporter
SLICED their series deficit into half, the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel Kings shoot for the equalizer against the defending...
March Madness at ESPN5
THE future of the National Basketball Association (NBA) will be brought on free channel in the Philippines as ESPN5, a collaboration between TV5 and...
Batangas City perfect at home; Muntinlupa wins
BATANGAS CITY -- No matter how difficult it is, there’s no place like home for the Batangas City Athletics-Tanduay in the MPBL-Anta Rajah Cup.
The...
Japan bids farewell to Tillerson; South Korea awaits Pompeo
TOKYO/SEOUL -- Japan’s foreign minister said on Wednesday he personally regretted the departure of “frank, trustworthy” US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson ahead...
Stephen Hawking, British physicist who reshaped cosmology, dies at 76
FRANKFURT -- Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and black-hole theorist who brought science to a mass audience with the best-selling book A Brief History...