RIZAL COMMERCIAL Banking Corp. (RCBC) will establish a rural bank that will join the digital banking race in the country, the bank said in a filing with the local bourse on Tuesday.

THE House Committee on Ways and Means has approved a substitute bill seeking to amend the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA).

THE proposed P30-billion supplemental budget to aid those affected by the Taal ashfall will likely be refocused towards development projects for the region after prospects dimmed for an explosive eruption, a key legislator said.

THE Department of Finance (DoF) and Export-Import Bank of Korea (KEXIM) exchanged loan documents Tuesday for a $50-million facility intended to fund feasibility studies and various preliminary activities for infrastructure projects.

“Pork barrel” today refers to selective government allocation and spending driven by electoral or political incentives. The term dates back to a time in the West when preserving meat was actually done in wooden barrels for future consumption. The term has since seeped into popular usage as a metaphor for the allocation of political largesse or favors.

Will the VFA be scrapped? What would its far-reaching consequences be to national security and nation-building?

Newly minted senator and former police chief Bato de la Rosa must be smiling with glee at the President’s declaration that he will revoke the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the USA if they do not issue a US visa to his good friend and fellow Davaeño Bato de la Rosa. OMG, a huge foreign policy switch on behalf of his friend who wants to make a personal, not official, visit to the USA.

GROWING up Eduard Folayang never thought that he would build a successful career doing martial arts, and to this day he is just amazed at how things have turned out for him in the path he has chosen.

MELBOURNE -- Sofia Kenin kept her game neat and tidy to see off big-hitting Tunisian Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 at the Australian Open on Tuesday and reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.

THE run of Ceres-Negros FC at the AFC Champions League ended on Tuesday night after losing to FC Tokyo, 2-0, in their qualification playoff match in Japan.

PHILIPPINE SHARES continued their decline on Tuesday as investor concerns over the coronavirus outbreak from China persist.

THE Bureau of Immigration has stopped issuing Philippine visas on demand to Chinese tourists at the Manila airport amid an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus that has killed dozens in China.