The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

One of the largest engineering survey and design companies in China has expressed interest in the implementation of the Mindanao Railway Project (MRP). 

Addressing challenges on infrastructure and logistics topped Metro Manila businessmen’s resolutions in their annual business conference. 

It was the best island in the world in 2012, according to the prestigious international travel magazine Travel + Leisure. 

Mention of New York City would often bring on an “Ooowww…” with a slight rise of the brow. It’s not unusual. True, New York easily fulfills a dream, of “seeing and believing”, but one could also be startled finding the ordinary. 

Zamboanga City—Tausug painter Rameer Amilasan Tawasil is using the canvass to bat for peace, drawing inspiration from his dark childhood marred by bloodshed and the chaos of the Moro rebellion. 

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) revised anew its playdates in the ongoing Governors’ Cup in lieu of Gilas Pilipinas men’s basketball team’s participation in the Fiba Asia Cup. 

Global nutritional company, USANA Health Sciences Inc., has agreed to provide health supplements for the country’s 300 elite athletes. 

The all-out support of the Philippine Sports Commission to the athletes joining the Southeast Asian Games (Sea Games) this month is reason enough for them to be optimistic. 

Two days after Davao snagged the Younghusband Brothers from Manila, it was Cebu’s turn to drop a PFL transfer bomb on Tuesday as the club announced the re-signing of striker Rufo Sanchez. 

As many as 3,000 families displaced by the crisis in Lanao del Sur province’s Marawi City and about 300 soldiers wounded in ongoing military operations there recently received relief goods from the BDO Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of Banco de Oro Unibank, as part of its disaster-response advocacy and commitment to serve communities affected by armed conflict.