JOHN GUCCIONE-PEXELSTHE National Government’s (NG) gross borrowings slumped by nearly half to P203.151 billion in January, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) said.Data from the BTr showed that total gross borrowings declined by 44.6% in January from the P366.863 billion in the same month in

Celebrating the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship, IdeaSpace, a startup enabler supported by the PLDT and Metro Pacific group of companies, recently hosted a demo day for Cohort 11 of the IdeaSpace Accelerator Program.The event provided a platform for visionary techpreneurs to pitch their ventures

Meralco female linecrew Zuzette Castro shows that women can excel in any field.By Mhicole A. MoralFor many years, the field of electricity line work has been dominated by men. It has traditionally been considered a physically demanding and dangerous job, leading many to assume that

Team InnoVision, first-place winner of UST’s first university-wide hackathonTo foster interdisciplinary collaboration among students, the University of Santo Tomas (UST) TOMASInno Center, UST’s official technology business incubator, hosted the first university-wide hackathon with the theme “Hack-a-Thom: The UST Hackathon on Sustainable Development Goals — Health,

SAN MIGUEL CORP. (SMC) said it anticipates finalizing the planned joint venture with Metro Pacific Investments Corp. (MPIC) in the coming months, pending the evaluation of its tollway arm’s Indonesian assets. “We will finalize this very soon, maybe in the next few months. The reason why

BW FILE PHOTOBy Sheldeen Joy Talavera, ReporterLISTED mining companies are expected to deliver mixed results this year, buoyed by global demand for essential metals but weighed down by regulatory and environmental uncertainties, according to analysts.“The outlook for mining companies in FY (financial year) 2024 appears

HOST DAVID CELDRAN welcoming the guestsORIENT STAR, a higher-end brand of popular watch brand Orient, opened its first boutique in the Philippines at the Mitsukoshi BGC mall on March 21.While the company started making watches in 1901, the company was formally known as the Orient

BDO Unibank, Inc. will hold its Annual Stockholders’ Meeting on April 19, 2024, Friday, at 2:00 p.m., at the Forbes Ballroom 1, Third Floor, Conrad Manila, and will be livestreamed for stockholders participating remotely.Spotlight is BusinessWorld’s sponsored section that allows advertisers to amplify their brand

Martin GonzalezMartin Gonzalez, an expert on the psychology of startup teams and creator of Google’s Effective Founders Project, a global research program that uses people analytics to uncover what makes the best startup founders succeed, was recently recognized by the Thinkers50 Radar.Every year, the Thinkers50

PHILSTARTHE Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) has retained the airline fuel surcharge at Level 6 for April.The Civil Aeronautics Board has announced that the airline fuel surcharge, which is added to the base fare, will remain at Level 6 next month.At Level 6, the domestic passenger surcharge