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When athletes walk into arenas, pools and tracks at this year’s Asian Games, what we won’t see are the salaries, plane tickets, medical bills, and years of support that helped put them there.

The Philippine Stock Exchange has penalized First Gen for disclosure violations. Underneath the sanction is a question every family business eventually answers: whose clock are we on?

Both sides said they wanted peace. The clues that they did not were hiding in everything they said and did while saying it.

Martin Andanar had a fast-paced career as a TV newscaster and helped shape policy as comms chief of former President Rodrigo Duterte. Now he’s serving coffee to surfers in his own cafe in Siargao.

Reports of the demise of one of the island’s oldest continually operating resorts have been greatly exaggerated.

In this exclusive excerpt from his new book From Great Debt to Great Deals: How I Built the Fastest-Growing Company in Asia Pacific, entrepreneur Steve Sy takes us through one of the most challenging chapters of his life, and how he came out of it stronger and more resilient.

The American soldier and teacher, who grew up in the plains of Kansas and made his way to the hills of Cavite, lived a rich and fascinating life. After the Philippine-American war, he settled in the country, married a Filipina, became a writer, and bought many parcels of fertile land along the Tagaytay Ridge, some of which still bear his name today.

News sources say both automotive giants are reconsidering the merger. For Nissan, both scenarios—pursuing a merger or maintaining the status quo—carry their own sets of risks and rewards.

If the 1980s had Bagets, the ‘90s had Pare Ko. The movie about Filipino youth culture eschewed the typical depictions of teenagers in favor of something real and raw, and, in the process, made stars out of its young leads like Jomari Yllana, Mark Anthony Fernandez, Jao Mapa, and Claudine Barretto. Three decades later, writer and director Jose Javier Reyes reminisces about making the movie and whether he’d ever consider making a sequel.

For people who are so against sex ed being taught in school, where would you prefer kids learn about it?

The founder and proprietor of popular Filipino restaurant Florabel now has a restaurant group of 25 outlets, including Crisostomo, Sisa’s Secret, Corazon, and Mr. Franks. Here’s her remarkable story.

When attending Rorate Caeli masses, “one notices something very far from your regular Misa de Gallo: solemnity, prayer, the Sacred. No gimmicks, just mass.”

For 17 years, Sam YG was a fixture of local FM radio, co-hosting the popular Boys Night Out. Now he’s one of the most sought-after events hosts. We catch up with the smooth, fast-talking funny man to figure out what he’s been up to.