The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The unsolicited proposal by seven local conglomerates to upgrade and operate Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has received approval from the Department of Transportation.

The P22-billion Cavite Laguna Expressway (CALAX) will be finished on time, by 2020, Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar announced after a recent on-site visit.

A Transportation Department official said he is inclined to allowing local airlines to re-impose a fuel surcharge to offset airline losses due to rising oil prices.

FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom (AFP) – British engine maker Rolls-Royce revealed plans to develop a hybrid electric vehicle, dubbed the “flying taxi,” which takes off and lands vertically and could be airborne within five years. The London-listed aerospace giant, which is based in Derby in central England, showed off the plans at the Farnborough Airshow for the first time, as other …

It’s inevitable that the short film format will be one of the most anticipated entertainment fares not only among cineastes but ordinary filmgoers as well. After almost a century of full-length film’s dominance in the commercial market, shorts have found its niche, finally, though, relatively slowly.

All of a sudden, Junemar Fajardo is on top of the Best Player of the Conference ladder.

Games and Amusement Board (GAB) chairman Baham Mitra has asked FIBA to also look at the referees who officiated the brawl-marred Gilas Pilipinas-Australia game at the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan early this month.

Gilas will have to host a game with Qatar sans spectators.

It’s not only the Top 3 box-office Philippine movies in 2017 that will hit the screens in the 2018 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival in Bucheon City, South Korea.

Boeing will take control of the commercial business of Brazil’s Embraer, the companies announced recently, better positioning the US aerospace giant to compete with rival Airbus in the market for smaller jets.