The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business

  The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is determined to complete next year the P112-million circumferential road in the historic island town of Limasawa, Southern Leyte. 

After two years, the rehabilitation efforts of the government in areas devastated by Supertyphoon Yolanda in the Visayas region registered an accomplishment of only 30.3 percent while 33.1 percent are still on-going and will be ready for completion by 2016. 

Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring both light and radio-wave characteristics. 

  Oakland, Calif. —Stephen Curry’s greatness as a basketball player can be measured by his record-setting shooting numbers that are changing the game. 

Las Vegas—Manny Pacquiao will return to the ring April 9 for the first time since losing to Floyd Mayweather Jr., and it will be against a familiar foe. 

By Azer N. Parrocha / Philippines News Agency The Philippines’s road-transport sector in 2015 had a need to improve its image and modernize the country’s transportation services. 

Review by Ann M. Job / The Associated Press The 2016 Subaru Forester is a solid, practical and flexible crossover sport utility vehicle (SUV) that endears with its easy-to-drive nature, off-road capability and generous cargo area. 

By Derrik J. Lang / The Associated Press Los Angeles—Star Wars isn’t just strong. It’s unstoppable. 

Associated Press film writers Jake Coyle and Lindsey Bahr’s favorite movies of the year span blockbusters, arthouse films and, yes, even Star Wars.

By Ma. Cristina C. Arayata / Philippines News Agency I used to think that one just needs to spend at least three months in culinary school to be called a chef. That changed when I chanced upon celebrity chef Rolando Laudico, better known as Chef Laudico, and learned I was wrong. “Being a chef is not for everyone,” he said during …