On a chilly Friday night in the California desert, with the clock creeping toward midnight, Alex Eala delivered a debut worthy of the glare and grandeur of the BNP Paribas Open.

After completing a three-year term on the board of the UN Global Compact Network Philippines (GCNP), Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc. (AEV) said its formal governance role may have ended but its push for sustainability and responsible business practices is far from over.

After more than four decades, housing construction has returned to the campus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB), a development that signals how universities are becoming key partners in the Philippine government’s expanding affordable housing agenda.