The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) joined by China, South Korea and Japan (Asean Plus Three) have agreed to further strengthen the multilateral currency swap arrangement to enable members overcome crisis more speedily and promote sustained economic growth.

Strengthening the education system will help enhance the competitiveness of countries in Asia in the field of information and communications technology (ICT).

Each Friday since February, 216 farmers beneficiaries would leave their far away upland barangays to toil and nurture their plants using the greenhouse farming technology taught them by Harbest Agribusiness Inc., learn new business and financial skills under Banco de Oro and its rural bank, One Network.

Authority intensified its rice market monitoring to avert any illegal activities, the agency apprehended a total of 614 violators during the first three months of the year for various offenses.

Once again, the Philippine peso reached a new low towards the U.S. Dollar exchange rate, but it is up to the financial markets to decide its direction.

By Boy Villasanta Didn’t you know that the new film by Star Cinema starring Charo Santos and Bea Alonzo, one genre so-called project, “Eerie,” started in South Korea?

By Boy Villasanta In his 86th death anniversary, Jose Corazon de Jesus, better known as Huseng Batute, will be feted with a day-long observance of his meaningful contributions to Philippine letters and to popular culture on May 26, 2018 at the theater named after him, the Tanghalang Huseng Batute of the Cultural Center of the Philippines.

By Mary Michelle M. Bonifacio Four contemporary “Maximo Violas” positively responded for the publication and launching of the novel “Venceremos” written by the prolific Filipino writer-poet-teacher Joe Lad Santos.

Grab receives about 600,000 passenger booking requests each day but only 35,000 vehicles are available to serve the riding public, resulting in long waits or not getting allocated a vehicle at all.

The second phase of the Japan-funded arterial road bypass project in Bulacan is now open to the public, completed ahead of schedule, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) said.