Josh Giddey on Sunday became the youngest player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) history to record a triple-double. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s rookie player produced 17 points, 14 assists and 13 rebounds for his first triple-double in the Thunder’s 95-86 loss to The Dallas Mavericks at Paycom Center, Oklahoma City. The Australian guard accomplished the feat at 19 years, two months, 23 days, beating the record of Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball, who had a triple-double at 19 years, 10 months, 17 days. Giddey had accomplished another historic achievement in his previous NBA game with Oklahoma against New Orleans Pelicans on

In the first week of 2022, consumers are faced with higher fuel prices starting Tuesday. In separate advisories, Caltex, Cleanfuel, Petro Gazz, PTT Philippines, Seaoil, Shell, and Unioil said they will increase diesel prices by PHP2.40 per liter and PHP1.85 per liter on gasoline products. Caltex, Seaoil, and Shell will also hike kerosene prices by PHP1.85 per liter. Local oil prices ended 2021 with a net increase of PHP17.10 per liter for gasoline compared to 2020’s closing, PHP13.75 per liter increase for diesel, while kerosene is higher by PHP10.84 per liter from the previous year. Oil prices increased in the

Oil prices were up on Monday due to supply disruptions in Libya and ahead of the meeting of producers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies (OPEC+) on Tuesday when they will decide how much oil to pump in February. International benchmark Brent crude was trading at USD78.44 per barrel at 0656 GMT, up 0.84 percent from the previous session’s close of USD77.78. The American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was at USD75.86 per barrel at the same time, a 0.86 percent gain from the previous session’s trade closure of USD75.21 per barrel. Oil prices started the new

The city-wide clean-up drive here has collected around 2,000 tons of debris and garbage left by Typhoon Odette, Mayor Michael Rama said on Monday. Rama cited the Cebu City Hall employees who spent their holiday on December 30 (Dr. Jose Rizal Day) and on January 2 which was a Sunday, in cleaning up the rubbish piled up along the roads. From 880 tons collected on December 30, the garbage collected increased to 1,900 tons on Sunday. The cleaning activities were in compliance with the directives of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Office of the

Mayor Maria Isabelle Climaco-Salazar has appealed to all city government workers here to submit themselves for vaccination. Salazar made the appeal during Monday’s virtual flag ceremony where she announced a total of 489,068 residents of this city have received their second dose of vaccine or are fully vaccinated since the start of the vaccination program in March 2021. They represent 70.40 percent of the target eligible population for vaccination of 694,696. However, Salazar did not disclose as to how many percent of the nearly 3,000 city government employees remain unvaccinated. “It (the vaccination) has been proven to lower serious and

The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) started the year with losses as coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases globally rise anew but the Philippine peso keeps its footing against the greenback. The main stocks index shed 1.14 percent, or 81.36 points, to 7,041.27 points. All Shares slipped by 1.05 percent, or 40.22 points, to 3,777.90 points. Most of the sectoral indexes also finished the day on the red, led by the Property, which fell by 2.90 percent. It was trailed by the Financials, 1.58 percent; Services, 1.42 percent; Industrial, 0.83 percent; and Holding Firms, 0.06 percent. Only the Mining and Oil