MANILA, Philippines – The University of the Philippines (UP) will open its new campus at Bonifacio Global City in Taguig next year.

Jose Wendell Capili, assistant vice president for public affairs, said the UP Professional Schools would offer graduate classes in business administration, economics, engineering and statistics.

In October 1958, SM, then known as Shoemart, was nothing but a lone store along Rizal Avenue in downtown Manila. Fifty-seven years later, it has become a part of the lives of millions of Filipinos across the country and abroad. And with more than half a century of retail experience under its belt, SM Retail once again received the Gold Award as the Philippines’ Top Retailer at the recently held Retail Asia-Pacific Top 500 Awards.

INVESTORS swamped the P20-billion debt offering of SM Prime Holdings, Inc., raising the chances tycoon Henry Sy, Sr.’s property holding firm will exercise the oversubscription option.

Gearing for its next major fundraising activity, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SMPH), one of Southeast Asia’s largest property developers, already set the rates for its latest bond issuance, which will give the company a P20-billion war chest as it expands its mall footprint across the country.

SM Prime Holdings, Inc. has set the coupon rates for its peso-denominated 5.25-year tenor series-D bond at 4.5095 percent, and 4.799 percent for the 10-year series-E bond.

EXCITED for the opening of two of Cebu’s grand shopping malls?

Here’s the latest video showing the progress of the construction of SM Seaside City Cebu and Robinsons Galleria Cebu.

The two malls are target to be completed before the end of 2015.

Mall operator SM Prime Holdings Inc. has started offering its P20-billion bonds for individual investors, an exercise that would partly fund the company’s capital expenditures through next year.

SM Prime Holdings Inc. has started a P15-billion retail bond offering to finance further expansion and existing debt, the company said on Thursday.