The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

An ominous phrase, indeed, if referenc­ing noxious clumps of both real and figurative debris, which for months, have gotten more and more bloated from wars both with weapons and rhet­oric the world over, especial­ly, one tilting on a friable bal­ance, the US—where from an ad featuring both presidential candidates in a highly toxic race for the White House I borrowed …

By Jesse C. Ong There are a number of reasons, de­spite being picked during the recent Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) rookie draft by a team with a proud winning tradition, Gilas cadet Jio Jalalon is reportedly unhappy settling with the Purefoods Star Hotshots.

The ultimate 5k running and music festival drew nearly ten thousand runners when it first made waves in the Philippines last year. This year, The Music Run™ by Philam Vitality returns to pump up an equally large— or even larger—crowd with everyone’s favorite hits playing on 120 con­cert-quality speakers across McKinley West in Taguig City.

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is looking to improve its social media outlets and will soon introduce a new digital apps in an effort to reach out to more Filipino basketball fans at home and anywhere in the world.

Rio de Janeiro—The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has been fined for the second time in less than a month for homopho­bic chants by fans.

Story and photos by Alvin I. Dacanay For far too long, Filipinos have tolerated inade­quate internet services that promised much more than what their provid­ers actually delivered, partly because there are no better choices available in the market. That may now change, after in­formation and communications technology (ICT) firm Con­verge ICT and top networking solutions provider Linksys struck a partnership that …

The smartphone has evolved into one of the most indis­pensable innovations of digita­lization. Over the years, it has revolutionized the way people live, given its increasing capa­bilities in transforming how people live, play and work.

Considering the existence of many internet service providers (ISPs) in the Philippines, you would think that sluggish internet speeds are a thing of the past. What many don’t realize, however, is that there are several factors affecting internet speed, a number of which are out of your ISP’s control.

If there’s a word that best describes the impres­sion that Filipinos made overseas, particularly in Japan, in the last two weeks, it’s “beautiful”.

Veteran screenwriter Ricky Lee was recently honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Scriptwriting by the Interna­tional Film Festival Manhattan (IFFM) in New York.