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The operations of the Overseas Filipino Bank (OFB) which will target some 10 million Filipinos working overseas will likely start in February after policy-making Monetary Board (MB) approved the Land Bank of the Philippines’ (Landbank) recent acquisition of the thrift bank.

State-owned Development Bank of the Philippines (DBP) seeks to expand its presence in the retail banking segment by targeting one million new depositors in the next five years, DBP President and Chief Executive Officer Cecilia Borromeo said.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is confident of within-target inflation in the near term after the December 2017 inflation was steady at 3.3 percent, bringing the average rate this year to 3.2 percent.

And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. JOHN 1:14

By Jun Ledesma We have seen the litany of achievements of Duterte administration. It dwarfed the entire six years of the Aquino regime. It could have done better except that it has to first fix a lot of damages wrought by an inept regime that has likewise institutionalized corruption and abetted crime the most horrific of it all – drug …

By Ibon Foundation The new year seems to usher in more difficulties for Filipinos in accessing basic goods, public utilities, and services amid government’s exclusionary policies, research group IBON said.

The year 2017 in college basketball ended with a huge bang as reports broke out that coach Aldin Ayo left the De La Salle Green Archers for the University of Santo Tomas Growling Tigers.

New league, same old Justin Brownlee.

National rifle shooters Amparo Teresa Acuña and Jayson Valdez will compete in two World Cups this year to prepare them for the Asian Games.

The MMA promotion One Championship ranked Honorio Banario’s stoppage of Jaro- slav Jartim as the second best knockout of 2017.