The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The Davao City Investment and Promotion Center (DCIPC) has granted incentive package to three big projects worth P12 billion. 

The Department of Public Works and Highways promised to complete the 5 kilometers missing gap at Zambales Section of the 81 kilometers Capas (Tarlac Province) -Botolan (Zambales Province) Road this November. 

One by one, mousy, inconsequential and oft-ridiculed government agencies are stepping up and are finally flexing hitherto unused regulatory muscle. 

A total of 64 Filipino boxers rated by the Philippine Games and Amusements Board (GAB) can no longer fight abroad after a regulation came out requiring a boxer to score at least two wins of his last three fights. 

Kuala Lumpur —The Philippines on Tuesday won one gold and three bronzes in the Tanding category of the 29th Southeast Asian Games pencak silat competition at the Juara Stadium in Bukit Kiara here. 

Two new faces made it to the Azkals training pool for their AFC Asian Cup qualifier match against Yemen on September 5 at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod City. 

Most movie-industry observers know the Film Academy of the Philippines (FAP) as primarily tasked to carry out two things: recognize the finest achievements in film in the previous year through its annual Luna Awards, and select the country’s official entry to the foreign-language film category of the Lunas’ American counterpart, the Oscars. 

By Hananeel Bordey Special to The Market Monitor The Pista ng Pelikulang Pilipino ended two weeks ago, and among the 12 films shown at the festival, Victor Villanueva’s Patay na si Hesus was one of the most buzzed-about, thanks to its mixture of comedy and drama. First shown at the 2016 Quezon City International Film Festival, the movie garnered there the Audience …

Two years after it moved audiences with its critically acclaimed production of Larry Kramer’s AIDS drama The Normal Heart, The Necessary Theatre (TNT) has brought them another provocative play, Scottish dramatist David Harrower’s Blackbird, which runs at the RCBC Plaza’s Carlo P. Romulo Auditorium in Makati City until September 10, 2017. 

Former matinee idol Eddie Mesa, best known as the “Elvis Presley of the Philippines” in the 1960s and patriarch of one of the Philippines’s most celebrated acting dynasties, is set to entertain audiences once more in a special concert—his first in more than 28 years—called Sing Us Your Song Again: The Music and Legacy of Eddie Mesa later this month.