Micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the Philippines will get timely assistance from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through twin projects aimed at helping them recover from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. BSP encouraging banks to loan more to...
The loss of working hours in 2021 due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is expected to be significantly higher than estimated, the International Labor Organization (ILO) reported Friday, Oct. 29. (FILE PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN) In its latest monitoring report on the impact of COVID-19...
Today, sustainability is at the forefront of everything. The Philippine national government, for one, has enacted several laws to address environmental issues. There’s the Clean Air Act 1999, Ecological Solid Waste Management Act 2000, Clean Water Act 2004, Biofuels Act 2006, and Renewable Energy...
Outstanding Filipino and Korean talent took center stage at the 2021 Philippines-Korea Cultural Exchange Festival held on Sept. 25. Organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, United Korean Community Association (UKCA) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), the online...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- Among the cranes and containers of the port of Rotterdam is a surreal sight: a herd of cows peacefully feeding on board what calls itself the world's first floating farm. The three-storey glass and steel platform aims to show the "future of breeding." (AFP) In the...
A Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) insisted on Thursday, Aug. 26, that the Stay Safe app has enhanced the country’s contact tracing efforts amid the surge of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). This was in reaction to the comment of Department of Health (DOH) Secretary...
A 21-year-old math wizard believes that math can be used to solve real-life problems, even in lessening the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Farrell Eldrian Wu in front of the Maclaurin Buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge "I figure out the interventions...
The crash in international tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic could translate to over $4 trillion loss in global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for 2020 - 2021. unwto_logo Ironically, tourism losses are reduced in most developed countries but worsened in tourist-dependent developing countries...
Opening more roads in the Bicol region is seen as a crucial piece in realizing the nine-hour "dream travel" from the northern part of Luzon to its tip down south before the era of "Build, Build, Build" is over. DPWH Secretary Mark Villar (first from left) during the opening of the Camalig Bypass...
Seven schools in the Philippines were among the top universities which have made a global impact based on rankings by World's Universities with Real Impact (WURI). Far Eastern University (feu.edu.ph) Far Eastern University placed 79th in the Global Top 100 Innovative Universities, up from its last...
The unprecedented government borrowings to offset the impact of the pandemic-induced recession have driven public debt to nearly P11 trillion in April this year. Based on the Bureau of the Treasury report on Thursday, June 3, the national government’s debt burden zoomed 28 percent to P10.991...
An estimated 1.6 million job opportunities will be created with household income substantially increased if the economic restrictions in the 1987 Constitution are relaxed, a University of the Philippines (UP) researcher said Sunday, May 30. DILG Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya (File photo courtesy of...
