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I am a converted women’s volleyball fan, and I mean that.

University of the Philippines won the last silverware on the line in the 80th season of the UAAP at the expense of the University of Santo Tomas with a 1-0 victory in the men’s football championship match right on the final day of the season on Thursday at the Rizal Memorial Stadium.

Zark’s-Lyceum’s Cinderella run is complete.

Filipino cyclists will now have a chance to experience the world’s toughest bike race without even going to the US.

Four of the flagship infrastructure projects under the “Build, Build, Build” program due for completion by 2022 are in the Visayas, in keeping with the Duterte administration’s goal to attack poverty and make growth truly inclusive and equitable across all regions, according to the Department of Finance (DOF).

Some 3,000 to 4,000 delegates are expected to take part in the 51st Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) scheduled on May 3-6 this year in Manila.

The second phase of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Act (TRAIN) is legal and there are no vested rights in the grant of tax incentives to certain businesses because these are “mere statutory privileges, and as such, its granting may be modified or withdrawn at the will of the granting authority, that is, the Congress,” Finance Assistant Secretary …

The Naia Consortium will resubmit next month a revised and re-sized proposal to transform the Ninoy Aquino International Airport into a regional hub, spokesman Aboitiz InfraCapital Vice President Jose Emmanuel Reverente told reporters.

An economist of ING Bank Manila forecasts further upgrades by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) of its credit rating on the Philippines after Thursday night’s outlook revision from “Stable” to “Positive.”

Thousands of public school students from several public schools in Manila, Quezon City, Pampanga and Zambales can now have access to the latest information technology equipment after the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (Pagcor) donated brand new computer sets to them.