The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

The Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) will certify as urgent housing projects to expedite the processing of documentary requirements from concerned government agencies in order to speed up the delivery of housing units for the victims of Supertyphoon Yolanda in 2013.

At least 11 jail facilities in Region IV-A (Calabarzon) amounting to P366 million is now undergoing bidding process at the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in an effort to solve overcrowding in various Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) facilities.

A new ASTM International standard will help with efforts to enhance the cement content in concrete while also reducing carbon dioxide emissions during production.

The 2017 budget proposals of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) came under heavy scrutiny by lawmakers during the plenary debates because of numerous issues concerning the worsening traffic.

Two congressmen, in analyzing global economics against the increasingly complex calculus of domestic currency valuations, declared that the recent devaluation of the peso was the fault of the President. After much thought, they concluded that at the core of the devaluation were cuss words.

We noted the howl among many admirers of the late Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago over apparent attempts to portray beleaguered Sen. Leila de Lima her “successor.”

“For me, marble for everything, like the walls inside and outside, and most of all, the floors,” one of the two Filipinas from across my seat in the No. 10 bus outlined in crescendo; she would have to tear down the hut she grew up in, she said, by a creek—and the surrounding rice fields her father once farmed as …

By Josephine Grace Aguilo / Philippines News Agency The Department of Tourism (DOT) is finalizing a plan to revive Intramuros as a monument to the Philippines’ Spanish colonial past, a tourism official said recently.

THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is proud to present a solo exhibition by Russel Trinidad (a.k.a “Doktor Karayom”), titled Linya and featuring 300 of his sculptures, at the CCP’s Pasilyo Vicente Manansala (second-floor Hallway Gallery) on Oct. 12 at 6 p.m.

Whether you’re up for a heart-racing thrill or a hauntingly chill time, you’re sure to have a fang-tastic time at Eastwood Richmonde Hotel this Halloween. Round up your friends and head east for a mix of horror and enchantment to make the last days of October memorable.