THE President’s Legal Counsel Salvador S. Panelo said that the Palace is now in a position to review the Technohub land development deal between the University of the Philippines (UP) and Ayala Land, Inc. (ALI) after obtaining copies of the contract.

FINANCE SECRETARY Carlos G. Dominguez III said tax revenue as a share of the economy in 2019 rose to 15.1% from 14.7% a year earlier, which he called the highest rate in over two decades.

ONE Championship’s first live event in the Philippines for 2020 happens today with “ONE: Fire & Fury” at the Mall of Asia Arena.

MELBOURNE -- Sofia Kenin sent world number one Ash Barty spinning out of the Melbourne Park semifinals 7-6(6) 7-5 on Thursday, crushing Australian hopes...

AFTER a long wait, Qatar Airways was finally introduced as official title sponsor of the Philippines Football League (PFL).

THE MAIN INDEX fell to the 7,300 level on its fourth consecutive day of decline on Thursday as investor worries on the novel coronavirus continued to drag the local market.

President Rodrigo Duterte’s making the cancellation of the US visa of the former enforcer of his murderous “war on drugs” the basis for the revocation of the Philippines’ Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States may be as absurd and as mindless as the rest of his so-called policies. But among its unintended consequences is the opportunity it provides for the country to seriously look into its foreign relations as a domestic concern. The public attention Mr. Duterte’s unashamed decision to make the interest of one person the basis of the Philippines’ dealings with another country will hopefully also knock some sense into his stubborn constituency and encourage the engagement in the debate over public issues of some of the uninformed millions who make up the majority in this benighted land.

It’s a bit baffling when you think about it. By this is meant the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which the present Administration is stridently threatening to terminate. But how would walking away from that Agreement (actually two Agreements, the so-called VFA 1 and VFA 2 -- the counterpart agreement) benefit the Philippines, even as a bargaining chip, is quite unclear.

“Art is long but life is short. In the long history of art, from the time man painted on the caves up to the present, this is the first time that art was created by two men in the manner of the HOCUS paintings,” historian-curator Gemma Cruz Araneta remarked.

THE PHILIPPINES on Thursday confirmed its first case of a new coronavirus strain that has killed more than a hundred in China and sickened thousands.

THE Philippines should end a visiting forces agreement with the US for reasons “weightier” than the cancelation of an administration senator’s visa, lawmakers said on Thursday.

THE House of Representatives was ready to augment government funds to prevent the spread of a novel coronavirus strain that has killed hundreds in China, Speaker Alan Peter S. Cayetano said.