Australia is now offering a fellowship program to help social entrepreneurs or sociopreneurs from Southeast Asian countries develop their leadership skills and learn to forge cross-cultural connections. An advisory from the Australian Embassy in Manila said the Land Down Under is recruiting 15...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo According to the United Nations, overcoming the digital divide is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The aim is to achieve universal, safe, inclusive, and affordable access to the Internet for all by 2030. The pandemic showed us how we can leapfrog...
President Duterte is demanding payment from rich, industrialized countries for the damage they are causing by leaving too much carbon emissions that worsen climate change. During his public address on Monday night, Duterte said he does not want to name names of such countries "because they are our...
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has recently briefed the diplomatic corps—comprised of 27 countries—about the automated election system for the upcoming May 2022 polls. Comelec Chairman Saidamen B. Pangarungan ,Commisioner George Garcia and PNP Director for Operations PMGen. Valeriano de...
(UNSPLASH / MANILA BULLETIN) The Philippines is planning to donate some of its Covid-19 vaccines to other nations in a bid to help ramp up their vaccination activities, the Department of Health (DOH) said on Thursday, March 10. DOH Secretary Francisco Duque III said they are eyeing to donate the...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Distressed OFWs are often a pathetic and heart-rending lot. Seriously maltreated OFWs in Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Jordan can’t end immediately their misery and go back home even if some have reached their breaking point. More often than not, they suffer for months before...
QU Dongyu U.N. Director-General The current nutrition situation in Asia and the Pacific is difficult in many areas across the region. About 40 percent of its inhabitants cannot afford a healthy diet, and in some areas the fight against hunger has seen reversals rather than advances. Progress toward...
OFW FORUM Jun Concepcion Strategies and measures that the government now uses to bring home Filipinos in war-torn countries, including those in Ukraine that Russia may attack soon, border on laughable and absurd. Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Brigido Dulay’s remarks to the media last week sums...
The Philippines will start accepting fully-vaccinated foreign leisure travelers from visa-free countries beginning Feb. 10, Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said. (Photo from Unsplash) Puyat made the announcement on Friday, Jan. 28, after the Inter-Agency Task Force...
The government's pandemic task force has decided to allow the entry to the Philippines of fully vaccinated travelers coming from non-visa-required countries starting February 10, Malacañang announced. PIXABAY / MANILA BULLETIN In his press briefing on Friday, January 28, Cabinet Secretary Karlo...
Tighter border restrictions in some countries due to potential threats of the Omicron variant of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) will affect the deployment of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) said Friday, Dec. 3. PIXABAY/ MANILA BULLETIN POEA...
The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) has come up with new testing and quarantine protocols for arriving international passengers to the Philippines originating from countries not belonging to the so-called red list. (Photo by Fusion Medical Animation/ Unsplash) Cabinet Secretary and Acting...
