The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

More than 400 dignitaries, including President Duterte, celebrated last Feb. 21 the 50th anniversary of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) headquarters in Manila. 

Philippines (HCPH), a unit of a Prague-based company offering in-store financing for purchasing appliances and gadgets, plans to expand its nationwide footprint and product offerings to increase its customer base to one million milestone by the end of 2017. 

Dubbed as the Supplemental Listing and Disclosure Rules Applicable to a Public-Private Partnership Company, this new Philippine Stock Exchange product was launched on the trading floor with PPP Center led by its Executive Director Ferdinand A. Pecson, who rang the bell, signaling the opening of the PPP securities to investors. 

The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) of Surigao del Norte has released its damage assessment following the magnitude 6.7 earthquake that occurred on Feb. 10. 

Maasin City will get an alternative link to the commercial district through a 4.71-kilometer coastal bypass road with reclamation component to ease traffic woes and expand the city’s development. 

Modern housing has been shown to be associated with a reduced risk of malarial infection in children in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to more traditional thatched houses. 

A composite team from Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) and USAID Compete Project have met with the heads of the Provincial Government of Davao Oriental to discuss the province’s laid-out plans on infrastructure development. 

Loosely translated and popularized as “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts”! in Virgil’s Latin epic “The Aeneid,” the high priest of Troy prophesied the walled city’s eventual destruction with a dire and ominous warning, “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” (I fear the Greeks, and those bearing gifts). The prophesy was eventually fulfilled with the giant Trojan horse left outside the high walls …

What is wrong with Presidential Communications Office (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar? 

He left his spot by the gate only when called for meals since a week before; the guards at Angeles Estates in Munoz, Nueva Ecija, that I used to visit, had wondered for whom he seemed to have waited, since no one known to them was expected. Yet, on seeing me stride to the gate, not me but Yankee’s behavior …