The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

“Who is a Canadian?” I had to ask, noticing that every other person I meet would either be American, German, French, Scot, Irish, Polish, even Estonian, as well as, Italian, Portuguese, South American, and what about, Indians, Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Thais, Vietnamese, and Filipinos “like you”, of course—they’d point out—among many more immigrants and refugees, giving away my ignorance.

While lucid, the Philippine Development Plan is still wrong and will keep the Philippines backward. Three major flaws immediately come to mind, all of which stem from the plan’s obsolete market fundamentalism.First, the plan avoids correcting the severe asset inequities and income imbalances that keep millions of Filipinos marginalized from meaningful economic activity. This means that all the plan’s rhetoric …

A  former lawmaker from Bacolod City will be charged before the Sandiganbayan on graft charges over the allegedly anomalous use of millions of pesos for the 23rd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games hosted by the city in 2005.

When asked if he can bring in Kiefer Ravena and Ray Parks Jr. to Gilas, despite their stint in the 2017 ABL season already done, Coach Chot Reyes said that he is open to the idea, but only after the Seaba Championship.

Cebuana Olympian Mary Joy Tabal is leaving her training camp in Italy for an intensive high-altitude workout in Switzerland.

Filipino Davis Cupper Jeson Patrombon ended his campaign in the second leg of the Hong Kong-ITF Futures on Thursday after losing to Japanese Soichiro Moritani.

The Philippine men’s floorball team will leave for Thailand Tuesday night to compete in the 1st Asia-Oceania Floorball Cup to be held at the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on July 1-6.

The Unified Tennis Group expressed its disappointment at the recent Philta elections.

By Alvin I. Dacanay The Philippines’ acknowledged superstar Nora Aunor and two members of her family received Gawad Urian nominations last week from respected film critics’ group Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP), which revealed that the top winners of various film festivals here and overseas dominated its list of nominees for 2016. 

Award-winning directors Lav Diaz and Brillante Ma. Mendoza are among the 774 international film artists and executives invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Ampas), the American film organization that holds the Academy Awards, it was learned last week.