BTS to release song to celebrate 10th anniversary

Grammy-nominated K-pop group BTS will be celebrating their 10th anniversary in June and to mark it, they will be releasing a song.  Big Hit Music, the group’s agency, said BTS will release the digital single “Take Two” on June 9 at 1 p.m. KST.  BTS will release the song “Take …

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PBBM welcomes Thai firm’s $2.5-B investment pledge to boost agri

AGRI DEV’T. President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. meets with executives of the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group), led by its chairman Soopakij Chearavanont, at Malacañan Palace in Manila on Tuesday (May 30, 2023). Marcos assured the Thailand-based CP Group of his administration’s support for its expansion plans and programs for …

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Butler: Miami’s man for ‘moments of truth’

Jimmy Butler AFP PHOTO  MIAMI: Desperate. Urgent. Maniacal. Psychotic. Incredible. Unique. World class. Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra has used an array of adjectives to describe Jimmy Butler over the course of his team’s remarkable postseason campaign. On Monday (Tuesday in Manila), Spoelstra was once again plundering his vocabulary …

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Coco Martin’s virtue and work ethic

AS the famous saying goes, “Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.” Coco Martin is one shining example of a celebrity who’s armed with tons of this virtue. Before making it as an established mainstream actor, Coco is not wont …

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Asian, Euro markets mixed after US debt deal

WAVERING A person looks at an electronic stock board showing Japan’s Nikkei 225 and New York Dow indexes at a securities firm in the rain on Monday, May 29, 2023, in Tokyo. Shares in Asia and Europe were mixed in as the decision on raising the US debt ceiling in …

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ADB grants $350M to Sri Lanka

BAILOUT In this photo taken on May 6, 2018, a Sri Lankan worker sorts plastic at Kathirana, on the outskirts of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. The Asian Development Bank on Monday released a loan worth $3450 million to help stabilize the economy of the cash-strapped South Asian nation. AFP PHOTO …

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Mac Belo inks one-year pact with Elasto Painters

Mac Belo (right) PBA PHOTO  Nearly two weeks after being acquired in a player swap with Meralco, wingman Mac Belo finally came to terms with Rain or Shine after signing a one-year contract with his new team on Wednesday. Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but Rain or Shine …

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