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Fresh from winning silver at the 2025 World’s Best Rice Award in Cambodia, Mabango 3 is showing it offers more than great taste and aroma. The rice variety, officially known as NSIC Rc218, can also survive and grow even when newly planted fields are flooded.

Thailand-based building materials firm SHERA Public Co. Ltd. is ramping up its operations in the Philippines, positioning the country as both a growth market and a potential regional export hub. 

The Philippines made waves at the 2026 Paris Dive Show, netting over P80 million in dive travel leads—a striking 43 percent jump from last year’s P56 million.

Listed fuel distributor and retailer Top Line Business Development Corp. (TOP) is deepening its supply chain control with plans to establish a wholly owned trading subsidiary in Singapore, sharpening its long-term vertical integration strategy.

The president and general manager of the Government Service Insurance System Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso and the former president of the Bankers Association of the Philippines, joined top banking leaders at the BAP Annual Advisory Council meeting, underscoring the urgency of tighter coordination across the financial sector.