The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

Chevron Philippines Inc. (CPI), marketer of the Caltex brand of fuels and lubricants, has a new demand-driven skills training program with a job placement component in its host community of San Pascual, Batangas. 

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest trade group, has offered the International Center for Agricultural Studies of Israel to assist in contacting Filipino graduates who completed a one-year internship in the Israel International Center for Agricultural Studies. 

Not all young people spend their free time frivolously. There are those who would spend it to create a better communities, better future, and a better nation. There is no better proof of this than the nominees of this year’s Ten Accomplished Youth Organizations (TAYO) Awards. 

When payday comes, there’s a life-changing investment for patients with high cholesterol.

Leading motorcycle manufacturer Honda Philippines Inc. (HPI) recently launched Generation-S, a new breed of smart and responsible riders who choose and value Honda scooters for their so-called Smart Technology. 

Among the 12 months, February is particularly important for Filipinos in the arts. It is, after all, National Arts Month, and for many performing-arts companies, this is when they mount their season-closing productions. If you want to see the local arts scene as its most visible and, it can be argued, most vibrant, then there is no better time than …

As part of ongoing efforts to promote Philippine and foreign literary works to Bikolanos, Franz Kafka’s celebrated 1915 novella The Metamorphosis, or Die Verwandlung in the original German, has now been translated into the Bikol language, and published as An Pagkagimata ni Gregor Samsa (The Awakening of Gregor Samsa). 

Back when being environment-friendly was not yet in vogue, highly regarded artist Fernando C. Modesto would often insert comments like ”to the revolution” and “this is good for the environment” in conversations that often received puzzled reactions from his friends and fellow artists.

Set hearts ablaze this Valentine season with a romantic retreat to Richmonde Hotel Ortigas (RHO). 

By Luis Leoncio  There may yet be a happy compromise to end the raging controversy over the P2,000 increase for pensioners of the Social Security System (SSS) that was aborted by a presidential veto that now seriously threatens the electoral chances of the ruling party’s candidates in next May’s elections, from its presidential candidate down.