The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez is on a roll. 

While aging shows first in the hair and skin, for me, it does on lids when slackened, the sadness of what’s gone and the oncoming night, hint the most at such external inevitability.

The Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) recently gave 57 national sports associations (NSAs) a 30-day period to liquidate the funds they received from the government sports agency or face sanctions. 

The Cebu City Ninos completed their dominant run in the Central Visayas Regional Athletic Association (CVIRAA), winning most of the individual and team gold medals at stake in the second to the final day to seal their 25th straight overall title. 

Eight men’s teams and another eight from the distaff side will see action in the Beach Volleyball Republic on February 25-26 as part of their nationwide tour to promote the development and growth of beach volleyball in the countryside. 

The 2017 Southeast Asia Basketball Association (SEABA) Men’s Championship has been set. 

The Department of Education (DepEd) and the Isabela provincial government are now ready to host more than 9,500 athletes and guests in the Annual Cagayan Valley Regional Athletic Association (CAVRAA) slated on February 24-28.

Authorities in north China’s Hebei Province have issued a mid- to long-term plan for the development of football in the 2016-2050 period. 

By Alvin I. Dacanay  Like many filmmakers of his generation, Gil M. Portes has worked with some of the most admired screenwriters in the Philippines, and their collaborations have resulted in a number of prize-winning films. These include 1990’s Andrea, Paano Ba ang Maging Isang Ina? (Andrea, How Does One Become a Mother?), written by Ricardo “Ricky” Lee; 1984’s ‘Merika …

Ballet Philippines (BP) is ending its 47th season, called “Wings,” with its seventh restaging of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece Swan Lake at the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Tanghalang Nicanor Abelardo (Main Theater) from February 24 to March 5.