The sudden onset of the Covid-19 pandemic last 2020, and the lockdowns and safety protocols that ensued, forced many entrepreneurs to reinvent their operations overnight in order to survive. Among those who weathered this challenge was fashion entrepreneur and TV personality Roxanne Montealegre,...
On Feb. 28, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released the second of its three-part Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). The Working Group II (WG2) contribution to the AR6 focuses on Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability as it provides an assessment of the vulnerability of...
QUIRINO -- Access to two well-known tourist sites -- the Ganano Falls and Eagles Beak - Batumbaket, in Diffun, Quirino, will soon be easy as the Department of Public Works and Highways - Quirino District Engineering Office (DPWH-QDEO) continues to implement a Tourism Road Infrastructure Program...
The University of Santo Tomas Research Center on Social Sciences and Education (RCSSED) received funding from the Department of Science and Technology—Philippine Council for Health Research and Development (DOS—PCHRD) for its National Youth Mental Health Project. The research work, titled...
A strawberry farmer in Benguet. (Photo by Zaldy Comanda) LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — Strawberry farmers here appealed for the termination and transfer of a flood control project which will displace them and affect their source of livelihood. Lawyer Richard Kilaan, lead convenor of Lawyers for Farmers,...
Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC) has approved a P60.9-billion asset-for-share swap with its parent company Solar Philippines Power Project Holdings, Inc. (SPPPHI). In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, the firm said the swap involves the acquisition of 100 percent of...
Empowering local communities starts with appreciating and valuing their indigenous knowledge, systems, and practices (IKSP) to get them involved and to collaborate. Through the campaign “Kinaiya it Kailayahan: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices of Nabaoynons in Malay, Aklan in...
The “Surf2Sawa– Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) Wi-Fi project” or the “free Wi-Fi for all” has been launched in Quezon City, the Commission announced. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Feb 22, PCUP disclosed that the project was launched on Monday, Feb. 21 at Upper Lilac...
How can you save the future without facing your past? Present Adam and future Adam with their father. Directed by Stranger Things' Shawn Levy, this time-travelling action-adventure film “The Adam Project” stars Ryan Reynolds as a pilot who must travel to the past and team up with his younger...
The official pilot testing of the “Surf2Sawa Wi-Fi Project” or the “free Wi-Fi for all” initiative of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP) is set to be conducted on Feb. 21, 2022. (Unsplash) The “Suf2Sawa Wi-Fi Project” aims to provide an accessible internet connection...
In 2013, when Typhoon Yolanda hit the Philippines, it made its first landfall in a small island called Sulu-an, a few kilometers off the coast of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. While most people know of Yolanda’s destruction in Tacloban and other major cities in the Visayas, most Filipinos have not heard...
A total of 47 beneficiaries of “Dagdag Puhunan Livelihood Project” of the Pasay City government received cash and grocery items to help them start their chosen businesses. Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano said of the 47 beneficiaries from Districts 1 and 2, 34 chose to buy grocery items worth P3,000...
