The Philippine Fisheries Development Authority (PFDA) is now working on the forthcoming construction of six post-harvest facilities, mainly fish ports, across different parts of the country. A statement showed that PFDA General Manager Glen Pangapalan recently met with several local government...
Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said he is vouching on the role of local universities and colleges (LUCs) in increasing students’ access to education while addressing persistent jobs-skills mismatch. Gatchalian, who chairs the Senate Committee on Basic Education, Arts and Culture, said LUCs also play...
The local government of Manila and Philippine Postal (PHL Post) Corporation unveiled two commemorative stamps to mark the 450th founding anniversary of the city on June 24. Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso (3rd from left) and Senator Christopher "Bong" Go (4th from left) unveil the two postal...
As pandemic restrictions ease, 81 percent of high-level company executives in Asia Pacific (APAC), Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) as well as the U.S., revealed business travel will be more important than ever to driving success. This was according to the latest VistaJet research in...
Welcoming her very first baby, Roxanne Barcelo looks fresh despite giving birth a few hours after this photo was taken. Carrying her baby and tagging a new account @dababycinco, she seems to be taking the time off from posting on her actual Instagram account, but sharing photos over on her Facebook...
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...
