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Century Properties posts 14% higher earnings

By Richmond Mercurio | April 16, 2026 - 12:00am

Century Properties Group Inc. of the Antonio family saw its profit jump by 14 percent to P2.77 billion in 2025 from P2.44...

Business

Trial of the century

By VIRTUAL REALITY | By Tony Lopez | February 26, 2026 - 12:00am

The trial of the century is on.

Opinion

Politics as melodrama

By QWERTYMAN | By Jose Dalisay | July 14, 2025 - 12:00am

I’ve often argued that our most popular literary form isn’t lyric poetry, the short story and certainly not the novel – it’s theater and, more specifically, melodrama.

Opinion

History via 100 maps

By BREAKTHROUGH | By Elfren S. Cruz | May 15, 2025 - 12:00am

It all began with my fascination with politics since my grade school days. It was inevitable that this would lead me to the study of geopolitics, the study of the influence of factors as geography, economics and...

Opinion

Kudos to the old-school

By Renester P. Suralta | March 16, 2024 - 12:00am

The old school produced the great minds of the 20th Century.

Freeman Opinion

Century Properties eyes P4 billion from pref shares issue

By Richmond Mercurio | February 3, 2024 - 12:00am

Century Properties Group Inc. has set the preliminary terms for its planned preferred shares issuance, in which the company...

Business

Century Group forays into hotel business

By Iris Gonzales | December 2, 2022 - 12:00am

Century Properties Group Inc. is making its foray into the hospitality business with the opening of Novotel Suites Manila at Acqua in Mandaluyong City this month.

Business

Lessons from the 20th Century

By BREAKTHROUGH | By Elfren S. Cruz | July 10, 2022 - 12:00am

20 Lessons from the 20th Century by Timothy Snyder (Crown Publishing Group, NY, 2017) is the title of the book I am focusing on today.

Opinion

Imagining ourselves

By FROM A DISTANCE | By Veronica Pedrosa | June 13, 2020 - 12:00am

On a day when we mark a milestone in becoming a nation, I can’t help thinking that we are more than the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves.

Opinion

Mother lily half century na sa showbiz, ayaw pang tigilan ang paggawa ng pelikula

By Salve V. Asis | December 1, 2019 - 12:00pm

Half a century nang movie producer si Mother Lily Monteverde ng Regal Films.

PSN Showbiz