The Department of Energy (DOE) last Sunday declared a moratorium on endorsements for coal power plants, following its periodic assessment of the country’s energy requirements. “I’m optimistic this would lead to more opportunities of renewable energy to figure prominently ...
The United States presidential election today, Tuesday, November 3, is drawing very much more than its usual attention from the people of that country as well as the rest of the world for various reasons. Three days before the election, a record number of over 90 million Americans had already cast...
The proposed national budget for 2021 as approved by the House of Representatives has now been transmitted to the Senate. In the final days of House deliberations on the budget, the House increased allocations for programs to enable the government to meet problems raised by the...
Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga used his first policy address to parliament to declare that Japan, the world’s third largest economy after the United States and China, has set a deadline – the year 2050 – to end its emission of polluting greenhouse gasses. “We will bring the...
Coconut farmers are now the poorest people in the agricultural sector, coconut farmer Danny Carranza, a member of the Kilusan para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Katarungang Panlipunan, said early his week. He said 95 percent of the 3.5 million hectares of coconut farms in the...
...or as real as possible One of the things that made recently-crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Mateo of Iloilo stand out was her answer in the final Q&A portion of the pageant, when the top five contestants were asked: “If you could create a new paper currency with the image of...
While the Philippines is gradually easing its restrictions on the movements of people because of improving figures on COVID-19 infections and deaths, most of the rest of the world was reporting rising cases this weekend. The World Health Organization (WHO) said countries in the northern...
Over the years, many Filipino professionals as well as ordinary workers have sought employment in other countries for lack of opportunities in their own country. Many of them have been construction workers and housemaids with no special training needed, as well as seamen, the Philippines being...
Natural disasters of various kinds continue around the world in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a major 7.5-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Alaska last Monday, sending off tsunami waves, only three months after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the same region. Across the ocean, the...
It was in 2018 that market prices – inflation in economic terms – rose to a peak of 6.7 percent in October, after steadily rising throughout the year. High rice prices were seen as a major cause of the inflation, rice constituting a big major part of the Filipino diet. As Congress met on this...
Poll surveys have become an important part of life and government in countries around the world. People in democratic countries get to declare what they want and support openly in periodic elections. In between elections, poll surveys indicate how people think and feel about government programs and...
It is still two months away from the country’s most revered religious tradition of the “Simbang Gabi” but both religious and government leaders are already planning for it. We have cancelled so many of our traditional practices because of COVID-19 since March, among them the Visita Iglesia...
