EU Competitiveness Fund will not finance research activities

This year’s mammoth sale of retail government bonds pushed up the Marcos administration’s total borrowings in August, as the state moved into the final stretch of its annual fundraising drive meant to plug its budget hole. Gross financing nearly tripled from a year earlier to P508.5 billion, according to the latest cash operations report of

EJ Obiena had one dream: to bring world-class pole vaulting to the Philippines. On Sunday, that dream soared above 5.80 meters—and landed in gold. Before a raucous crowd gathered at Ayala Triangle Gardens for the Atletang Ayala World Pole Vault Challenge, Obiena already felt like a winner. He had helped bring an international competition home.

‘Robot umpires’ will debut in Major League Baseball in the 2026 season as the game adopts the automated strike zone challenge system tested in the 2025 pre-season, MLB announced on Tuesday. MLB’s joint competition committee voted to approve the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, which allows players to challenge human umpires’ ball and strike calls