The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
There are two faces to a single coin, the obverse (front) and the reverse (back). In colloquial, vernacular speech/language, there’s the tao (human being) and the ibon (bird) in tossing a coin the air to signify the order of appearance, for instance, in a game. Or simply put, there are many sides to a story. True enough to the postponement of the 2nd Manila …
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January, 2025
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19 January
David Ezra and Dulce: Mother and son triumph
Even if Kapitol Films and United Straight Shooters Media, Inc.’s “Isang Himala” didn’t make much money at the recently concluded 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival, it made history just the same to express its filmmakers and creative team’s vision of a musical film that is relevant and meaningful to a lot of people. One of its main cast members, Bituin …
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19 January
New Year, newbie
The start of the Year of the Wooden Snake offers the public a young boy named Liam Rhys E. Jalla, a ten-year-old talent of filmmaker Mark Arvin Agcaoili Bago. We enjoin you, dear readers, to support Liam Rhys as he journeys in this wonderful yet cruel world of show business. Jalla loves singing so he prefers to concentrate in music …
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19 January
Zig Dulay: “Ruru Madrid and Dennis Trillo’s successes are mine, too”
The moment the 2024 Metro Manila Film Festival Gabi ng Parangal (awards night) proclaimed Dennis Trillo and Ruru Madrid as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively, for GMA Pictures’ “Green Bones,” their common director Zig Dulay was triumphant and proud of their artistic achievements. “Your success is also my success,” wrote Zig in his Facebook wall. “From the first …
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19 January
More modern, more efficient public transport for 2025
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) remains relentless in its pursuit to elevate the country’s road sector, and uphold to global standards the different transport systems for 2025. Under President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.’s directive, the Department under Secretary Jaime J. Bautista continuously implements road transport infrastructure projects across the nation. Active Transport Project To promote sustainable mobility and alleviate traffic …
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19 January
Empowering seafarers, protecting territory, modernizing ports
The Department of Transportation (DOTr), along with the Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), and Cebu Port Authority, is steadfast in implementing maritime projects and initiatives by empowering the rights and welfare of Filipino seafarers, protecting our coastal territory and modernizing ports. New Cebu International Container Port To be constructed in Consolacion, Cebu, the …
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19 January
LTO directs RDs to complete distribution of tricycle plates by April 2025
Land Transportation Office (LTO) Chief, Assistant Secretary Atty. Vigor D. Mendoza II, ordered all regional directors to ensure that all the license plates of tricycles, particularly those being used in public transportation, are delivered by April 30 this year. The order came after the inventory of the printed license plates revealed that they are sufficient to cover all the tricycles …
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19 January
TBM starts digging Camp Aguinaldo subway tunnel
The Metro Manila Subway Project (MMSP) continues to gain traction as the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) launched the operations of the tunnel boring machine (TBM) at the project’s Camp Aguinaldo Station. Under MMSP’s Contract Package 103, four TBMs will be utilized for the tunneling of the Anonas and Camp Aguinaldo Stations. Transportation Undersecretary …
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19 January
DOTr warns vs fake FB page offering free rides
The Department of Transportation (DOTr) calls on the public not to engage or transact with a Facebook account “Transportation in Manila,” which is allegedly giving away free transport cards for the entire year as part of the agency’s 126th anniversary celebration. The account, which has a Facebook handle @Transportation-in-Manila or Transportation in Manila, is supposedly giving away Beep Cards by …
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16 January
CICC, Benilde combine efforts to address PH cybersecurity issues
To address cybersecurity challenges in the country, the De La Salle College of Saint Benilde Hub of Innovation for Inclusion (HiFi) collaborated with the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) to cover concerns, such as phishing, intrusion detection, security automation, and adversarial artificial intelligence (AI). CICC, an attached agency of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT), has the mandate to formulate …
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