THE MAIN INDEX gained for the third straight trading day as the week began, joining its regional peers in cheering signs of progress in resolving the raging Sino-US trade war.

THE San Sebastian Stags and Mapua Cardinals, two teams tightly fighting for the last Final Four spot in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95, go for key victories today against separate opponents to give their playoff push a boost.

TOKYO -- If staging a never-been-done-before offering of two full shows in one day was not challenging enough, ONE Championship’s 100^th live show “Century” on Oct. 13 faced the possibility of being washed out altogether with a super-typhoon hitting Japan less than 24 hours before the event itself as an added hurdle.

THE Philippine men’s national football team resumes its second-round joint qualification bid for FIFA World Cup 2022 and Asian Cup 2023 today in a Group A match set at the Panaad Park and Football Stadium in Bacolod City.

THE PHILIPPINE National Police (PNP) chief stepped down from his post on Monday, weeks ahead of his retirement from the service amid allegations of his involvement in a case of illegal drug “recycling.”

VICE PRESIDENT Maria Leonor G. Robredo on Monday asked the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), to uphold its rule in deciding on the electoral protest filed by losing candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr.

THE PHILIPPINES’ top diplomat apologized on Sunday for Twitter posts on Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, including referring to the revolutionary leader as “burnt rice.”

THE BANGKO SENTRAL ng Pilipinas (BSP) has enhanced its framework for watching banks deemed too big to fail, the monetary authority said in a press release on Saturday.

THE DEPARTMENT of Energy (DoE) has opened biomass energy development to full foreign ownership to encourage growth of the sector that has lured only a few investors even after the feed-in tariff (FiT) scheme gave them a fixed, subsidized rate for their power output.

LIFTING of bank secrecy restrictions, as pushed by the Finance department and the central bank, will find ready support anew in the House of Representatives, the chairman of the chamber’s Ways and Means committee said in a mobile phone message last weekend.

A FARMERS’ association said it doubts that economic managers will greenlight a proposal to impose safeguard measures on imported rice and called a referral of the matter to them a “waste of time.”

THE COURT of Tax Appeals (CTA) has canceled the alleged tax deficiency of San Miguel Foods, Inc. for 2010 worth P959.89 million following the failure of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) to indicate the specific period for the settlement of the tax liabilities.