PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House (Remarks delivered by former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., at the ICAPP 2nd Video Conference on the COVID-19 Pandemic on May 25, 2021.) A global program for post-COVID-19 world and future pandemics With the global plague having claimed more...
To celebrate the birthday of her daughter, a homeless mother taped a cardboard box inscribed with “Happy 7th birthday, Janella” and nearly inflated balloons on the roll-up door of a closed establishment in Makati City. Photo courtesy of Kim Raytos/ MANILA BULLETIN The heart-warming scene was...
(Remarks by H.E. Ambassador Huang Xilian at the Forum on China-Philippines Cooperation Development in the Post-COVID-19 Era, May 14, 2021) It gives me great pleasure to attend this forum. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging, it remains our main task to bring it under control. Meanwhile, we...
EDITOR’S DESK Bernie Cahiles-Magkilat The pandemic has given rise to new businesses if not the strengthening of existing ones that are able to pivot and innovate with the use of digital technologies. Some of these businesses are delivery/logistics, micro finance, financial technologies (fintech),...
With COVID-19 pandemic in the world’s kernel, societies have been petrified – first by the health crisis and next, the ensuing economic shocks. Then comes a highly probable longer-term predicament - a vicious circle that will confront global population with more devastating impact, and that is...
This year’s Easter observance is muted and subdued by the sobering realities brought on by COVID-19. An unprecedented surge has transformed the NCR+ bubble area from a hotspot into a cauldron of infection with more than 80 per cent of new cases. The trauma of the initial outbreak a year ago...
While virtual meetings could take the place of business travel and the sector may not recover from the pandemic until 2024, airlines will survive, according to Moody's. This was the gist of the latter's newest Sector-In-Depth report: “Airlines – Global: Business travel faces higher substitution...
The Philippines government has resurrected a project launched in 2018 to provide refrigerated container vans or reefer vans to fishermen and farmers in order to reduce their post-harvest losses. On March 12, Agriculture Secretary William Dar, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade, and Energy...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Once upon a time in a section of the ancient city there lived the most famous fashion designers. Around Remedios Circle, on its fringes or blocks away from one another, they toiled with their cotton, taffeta, lace, and tulle, and nobody bothered to ask why Malate was The...
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has started its comprehensive review and assessment of when to reduce or scale back the size of liquidity and COVID-19 relief measures to avoid financial distress post-pandemic. So far, the BSP has infused the financial system P2 trillion in liquidity, or about...
As the Philippines' very own "Elvis Presley" turned 76 years old last February 6, Ruffa Gutierrez shared priceless photos of her father Eddie Gutierrez in her social media accounts. Over on her Instagram account, she posted a compilation of photos of her father and her as a toddler. "Happy birthday...
It seems the younger generation of moms are out to prove that you can have it all, just like Anne Curtis who posted two outfits of her baring her sculpted just eight months after giving birth to their daughter Dahlia. On her instagram post, she is seen wearing a coral-hued bandeau paired with...
