The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Construction of a 180-kilometer expressway stretching from southern Quezon to Camarines Sur will be auctioned to the private sector before the end of 2018, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is asking MPCALA Holdings Incorporated to fast-track construction of the Cavite-Laguna Expressway (CALAX), hoping to begin commercial operations by December 2018.

A super consortium that reportedly wants to rehabilitate and redevelop the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) expects to partner with Changi Airports International (CAI) for the project.

Dubai airport in the United Arab Emirates was 2017’s world’s busiest for international passengers, four years running, with 88.2 million travelers, the UAE’s state news agency WAM said February 5.

Canada is reviewing a deal to sell 16 Bell helicopters to the Philippine military that would reportedly be used as attack planes against local insurgents, an allegation the Philippine government denied February 8.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) passengers traveling from the United States may avail of a faster security screening procedure, after PAL became part of the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) PreCheck program.

Philippine creativity and the arts are front and center this February as the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) celebrates National Arts Month (NAM).

After 72 years in hibernation, the Catholic Church in the Philippines has revived the devotion to the Nuestra Seπora del la Salud (Our Lady of Health) Novena late last year.

By Boy Villasanta Nick Nangit who? Remember the classical pianist who performed a couple of years ago in exquisite Museum of History of Ideas in Padre Faura in Manila where controversial whistler-blower and now one of the managers of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) Sandra Cam and the late actress Dinah Dominguez were guests?

The past week has seen the media cycle spit out pages, and innumerable minutes over TV and radio discussing the alleged intervention of Presidential Management Staff Head and Special Assistant to the President Secretary Christopher “Bong” Go in the selection of a weapons system supplier for the Navy.