The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

More than 205 billion e-mails are sent and received each day, but only less than 10 percent of e-mail users can identify regular e-mails from phishing e-mails, which is one of the most popular scams used on the Internet to obtain sensitive personal and financial information. 

By Daryl Rose Virtudazo  With at least P40.6 billion budget for this year to maintain and repair national roads, Senate Minority Leader Ralph Recto urged the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to deploy “pothole patrols” that will undertake minor road repairs round-the-clock in Metro Manila and other urban centers, “so that small road cracks can be fixed before …

A representative from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) committed to continue the bank’s assistance to cover more agrarian reform communities (ARCs) in Mindanao. 

By Weng C. Ocfemia With the pronouncement of the government that the next six years of the Duterte administration will be the “golden age for the Philippine construction,” the more we have to embrace technology to accelerate development, said Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers (PICE) President Ernesto de Castro. 

Sen. JV Ejercito reiterated his call for the creation of Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development saying “one housing department should be a priority.” 

Water security in Asia and Pacific has progressed overall in the past 5 years, but major challenges remain, including overexploited groundwater, demand from rising populations, and climate variability, according to a new report from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). 

Story and photo by Alvin I. Dacanay  Actress Liza Diño, the new chairwoman of the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP), aims to forge partnerships with industry and arts-and-culture organizations and promote the production of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) films, as well as streamline or strengthen her agency’s programs, during her three-year term. 

To celebrate the 25th year of the Delegation of the European Union (EU) in the Philippines, the 19th Cine Europa film festival will highlight its chosen theme of friendship in the 24 European films, including an Oscar and Golden Globe nominee, and four Filipino movies it will screen for free at the Shangri-La Plaza mall’s Shang Cineplex from Sept. 8 …

Last Friday night, the Carlos Palanca Foundation Inc. honored 51 creative writers in 20 categories at the 66th Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City. 

Life in Metro Manila is about to get easier and better.