The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The investor’s conference for the P1.47 billion ($32.75 million New Nayong Pilipino at Entertainment City PPP Project is a) tourism-oriented facility is set on February 9, at Makati Shangri-La. 

Beijing has agreed to study Manila’s proposal to implement through hybrid or co-financing arrangements with multilateral institutions the big-ticket Philippine projects that had been submitted to China for possible funding by the Duterte administration. 

Some leaders have absolutely no clue as to what constitutes a new world economic order, thinking it merely involves re-alliances. Where these are products of whim, on one end, and vitriolic tempers, on another, then reckless utterances blabbered can have hidden consequences. 

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez last week announced the closure and suspension of 28 large-scale mining firms for violating environmental laws and mining safety standards.

Where Cinderella stories have sucked in even cynics with a magnetic pull, love — so like a whirlpool that a would-be king gave up his throne like Edward did– easily encrusts in universal memory. Yet, love nourished with improbabilities has run more prominently through poetry and novels, hence, like seasonal winds, waft in and out of our consciousness. 

By Jesse C. Ong  A recent decision by the Southeast Asian Basketball Association (Seaba) to move its 2017 tournament a month later from its original schedule is causing much trouble for the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) and Gilas Pilipinas as far as their own calendar is concerned. 

Former world light flyweight champion Randy “Razor” Petalcorin of Sanman Boxing Club will fight again in General Santos City on February 25. 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) cannot punish athletes, who refused to return their medals after their results were annulled over doping, but has the right to ban them from participation in the next Olympic Games, lawyer of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) Alexandra Brilliantova told TASS. 

HOUSTON — The Houston Rockets officially retired Yao Ming’s No. 11 jersey during the halftime break of their game against the Chicago Bulls at the Toyota Center on Friday night with the presence of Yao Ming and his family. 

In the light of her silver medal finish in the Rio Olympics, the Philippine Sportswriters Association (PSA) was one and unanimous in naming weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz its 2016 Athlete of the Year during its traditional Awards Night presented by MILO and San Miguel on Feb. 13 at the LE PAVILION in Pasay City.