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CHRIS PRATT in a scene from The Terminal List. — IMDB.COM LONDON — Hollywood actor Chris Pratt brings author Jack Carr’s best-seller The Terminal List to the small screen this week in a new television adaptation of the first novel…

BW FILE PHOTO NATIONAL Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) said on Thursday that it is “significantly closer” to interconnecting the electricity grids in Mindanao and the Visayas after it completed key components of the project, including facilities in areas…

THE EIGHT new National Artists for 2022 were honored with at a tribute ceremony at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on June 29. In attendance were National Artist for Dance Agnes Locsin; National Artists for Film and Broadcast Arts…

By Luisa Maria Jacinta C. Jocson, Reporter SHARES in Balai Ni Fruitas, Inc. ended lower by 7.14% or five centavos to P0.65 on market debut on Thursday, with analysts blaming inflation and rising commodity prices for the stock’s fate. The…

AN animatronic crocodile was brought around the streets of Metro Manila in a publicity stunt to promote the new TV show Lolong. — PHOTO FROM GMA PUBLIC AFFAIRS/TWITTER SOCIAL media users have been seeing an awful lot of crocodiles on…

PHILIPPINE STAR/ KRIZJOHN ROSALES By Alyssa Nicole O. Tan, Reporter ROSE ANN SANTOS, 20, says ill-gotten wealth allegations against President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. and his family are just moonshine. “That is not true,” she said in an interview in…

A HEALTH WORKER at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute pushes a patient in a wheelchair in this Aug. 15, 2021 photo. — PHILIPPINE STAR/ MICHAEL VARCAS VINCENT GIAN N. SALAZAR, 26, fulfilled his lifelong dream by moving to the…

THE Philippine central bank would consider bigger key rate increases to support the peso and amid faster inflation, according to its new chief. “The key really is what’s the momentum of inflation,” Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Felipe M.…

PHILIPPINE STAR/ WALTER BOLLOZOS By Arjay L. Balinbin, Senior Reporter A TRANSPORT group said on Thursday that the increase in the minimum fare for traditional jeepneys is still insufficient for operators and drivers to cope with soaring fuel prices, and…

THE PHILIPPINES is set to recover over the course of the year even in the face of rising inflation and global supply chain disruptions, with the economy boosted by election spending and the restoration of much business activity as movement…