PH Resorts Group Holdings Inc., led by businessman Dennis Uy, will boost its authorized capital stock to P20 billion—more than double the current P8 billion—to wipe out its capital deficit and restore positive shareholder equity in two years.

Asialink Finance Corporation has won Best Real Estate Financing Institution at the Philippine Real Estate Awards 2026, honoring its fast-growing business launched December 2025. Through August 2026, it released over ₱27.7 million in real estate financing.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has extended fresh financial support to four major institutions delivering critical healthcare and humanitarian aid across the country, donating a total of P40 million.

The Bank of the Philippine Islands has earned two prestigious distinctions at The Asset Triple A Treasurise Awards 2026, confirming its leadership in treasury, working capital, and risk management across the country.

Finance Secretary Frederick Go has backed removing excise taxes on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and kerosene but rejected suspending taxes on gasoline and other fuels, citing an estimated P12 billion monthly revenue loss.

The proposed Conditional Joint Venture Agreement (CJVA) between South Cotabato II Electric Cooperative (SOCOTECO II) and Ignite Power has encountered a new setback after the Office of the Executive Judge of the 11th Judicial Region issued another Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) halting the remaining scheduled dates of the cooperative’s membership plebiscite.

The Department of Energy is moving to stabilize the Visayas power supply after the grid returned to yellow and red alerts this week, just days after without any warnings.

The Department of Energy says the run of steep fuel price increases will likely stop next week, with falling global trading prices driving the shift.

The Lind Hotels will launch The Lind Coron in 2027, expanding the Filipino hospitality brand into Palawan and coming back to the place where its story first started.

NUVALI is set to welcome 10 new retail, dining, wellness and service establishments in the fourth quarter, expanding the commercial mix at The Shops NUVALI at Central Bloc in Laguna.

The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) plans to bid out a four-hectare property near Market! Market! in Bonifacio Global City by 2027, putting a potentially P40-billion site on the market for a major mixed-use development.

Ayala Land Inc. is turning to seawater desalination to strengthen water security at Lio Estate in El Nido, Palawan, as the tourism and lifestyle destination prepares for further residential, commercial and hospitality development.

Taiwan-based CQS Precision Die Casting Inc. is expanding into the Philippines with a new manufacturing facility in Batangas, adding robotics production to the industrial mix at LIMA Estate.

The Philippine information technology-business process management (IT-BPM) industry is targeting USD50.5 billion in revenue and 2.14 million jobs by 2028, with plans to expand employment while shifting toward higher-value services.

Philippine software firm BossLabs AI is moving beyond its home market to expand across Southeast Asia, with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Thailand identified as its first key destinations.

Fastly, Inc., a US-based cloud computing and edge platform company, has launched three new AI-native capabilities—AI Runtime Control, AI Firewall, and enhanced API Security—delivering live visibility and command over every layer of an organization’s AI activity.

Senator-judge Raffy Tulfo asked a deceptively simple question during Vice President Sara Duterte’s impeachment trial: Why did no one in her legal orbit tell her to divest from her businesses before she took her oath?

Filipinos have never really needed an invitation to love basketball. Give us a hoop, a ball, and approximately four square meters of concrete and we will figure out the rest. There is no requirement for proper flooring, air-conditioning, seating, parking, or even a complete understanding of the rules. Someone will keep score. Someone will call a phantom foul. Someone will bend the rules to ridiculous proportions in plain sight. So when the National Basketball Association brought basketball to the Philippines once again, nobody complained. After all, Filipinos have been quite willing to make room for basketball for decades. We simply cleared a little more space.

When the US Federal Reserve, the world’s most influential central bank, moves interest rates, Manila can feel the ripple, even 8,500 miles away. The effects do not arrive all at once, and they do not affect everyone in the same way. But eventually, they can show up in the mortgage, car loan, credit card bill, and even the grocery budget.

There are two kinds of Filipino motorists: those looking for a parking space and those who have already found one and are determined not to tell you where it is. Parking has become one of the more demanding sports in modern Philippine life. It requires patience, spatial awareness, quick reflexes, and, occasionally, the ability to stare at another motorist for several seconds without saying anything that could get you into trouble.