THE Department of Finance (DoF) said it maintains that earnings of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO) are taxable, contrary to statements issued by the Office of the Solicitor General.

THE Department of Finance (DoF) said it will look into “potential distortions” in the rice market, citing the wide gap between farmgate and retail prices.

THE best-of-three National Collegiate Athletic Association Season 95 men’s basketball championship series is down to one last game today with the defending champions San Beda Red Lions and the Letran Knights battling it out in Game Three at the Mall of Asia Arena.

WINNER in its last game in the second round of the FIFA World Cup Asian Qualifiers, the Philippine men’s national football team looks to make it back-to-back wins when it takes on Group A leader Syria today in an away group match in Dubai.

IN line with their duties as official broadcasters of the 30^th Southeast Asian Games, TV5 and Cignal jointly launched the umbrella campaign “Sama-Sama sa SEA Games” yesterday.

The good news about Philippines agriculture is that the average yield per hectare of many crops keeps rising, thanks to technological modernization. The bad news is that there is continuing land conversion from forest to agriculture -- and residential, industrial, commercial -- uses.

In recent days, we’ve seen the passing of high-profile personalities who I’ve known one way or the other. It’s been a sobering year as age hurtles faster at warp speed toward the inevitable. As the saying goes, “We’ll never get out of this world alive.”

SHARES continued to drop on Monday as investors stayed on the sidelines until further developments in the US-China trade talks.

Broadly defined, democratization is the process of applying the principles of democracy to a given structure or system, allowing the same to exist in a more participative and open society (United Nations, 1996). In the context of higher education, democratization means the process of making higher education accessible and available to anyone who wants to access it for different purposes (Blessinger, 2015). One such purpose -- despite the system being unique per country given variations in socio-political and demographic contexts -- is the production or creation of knowledge. This has resulted in a pronounced increase in the worldwide demand for higher education, corresponded by an even more rapid increase in supply from higher education institutions (HEIs). In a 2014 publication by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), higher education participation in 2009 reached as many as 165 million students across the OECD member countries and selected non-OECD member countries, with enrollment projected to reach 262 million by 2025. In Asia, enrollment rates have been on the rise over the past two decades. By 2025, the projected enrollment for higher education in Asia is expected to reach over 300 million (Calderon, UNESCO, 2018). Such explosive growth in higher education participation in Asia is affected by an increased population over the past 20 years, along with emphasis placed on the relationship of education and an individual’s subsequent opportunities in life (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2014).

A SENATOR yesterday proposed to realign P3 billion worth of unspent housing funds to victims of earthquake victims in the Mindanao region.

GOVERNMENT prosecutors will soon decide the complaint against President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s former police chief and 13 cops accused of recycling illegal drugs seized from a legitimate operation in 2013.

THE Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) has asked the Supreme Court to resolve a plea to consolidate cases on deaths attributed Dengvaxia vaccination into one family court.