For years, the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup has felt like familiar territory for Philippine teams. The script was almost predictable. A Filipino team enters, the rest of the world chases.
In a country where Mobile Legends titles are won through bruising battles and dynasties often crumble before they can be completed, Team Liquid Philippines accomplished something no other powerhouse in the Mobile Legends Professional League Philippines (MPL PH) had managed before.
ONIC Philippines claimed the championship title of the USD 200,000 ESL Snapdragon Pro Series: Mobile Masters 2025 on Sunday, defeating host country favorite RRQ Hoshi of Indonesia.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) conducted simultaneous enforcement operations on 11 cockpit arenas on August 8, 2026, and found 297 betting machines, computerized betting units, servers, and other devices without the required Permit to Use (PTU) and not appearing in BIR records. These were sealed or confiscated, as warranted under existing rules.
The Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport Authority is positioning its sprawling economic zone in Casiguran, Aurora as a potential defense-industrial hub as the Philippines strengthens strategic infrastructure along its Pacific seaboard.
The Department of Trade and Industry is targeting more than P1 billion in sales from national trade fairs this year as it expands government-led marketplaces designed to connect Filipino micro, small, and medium enterprises with domestic and international buyers.
The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) has set aside nearly ₱4.4 billion in emergency loan assistance for 166,789 active members as well as old-age and disability pensioners across nine areas in Luzon reeling from recent typhoons and the southwest monsoon.