Administration Senator Francis Tolentino on Monday said the bill that seeks to protect an employee’s “rest hours” and prevent him from taking up tasks and meetings that cut his personal time due to a work-from-home arrangement is necessary to keep the country’s workforce more productive....
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY One of my side hustles pre-COVID was organizing and hosting musical events and gigs. Of course, when the pandemic struck, the events industry was the first not only to be badly hit, but completely shut down resulting to would-be revenues going down the drain. But if...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay New Year's day brings about resolutions- promises made at the beginning of each new year hoping it will make one a better person. But what is not quite common in the Philippines is having bucket lists- which is as  Webster describes, a number of experiences or...
THE RIGHT MOVE What a year it has been with so much loss and grief from circumstances beyond our control such as the pandemic. As we start to say goodbye to a tumultuous 2021, we can't help but prepare ourselves to say goodbye to the sorrows that pained us one way or the other with each New Year...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY The Philippines can very well be known as the Christmas capital of Asia with Filipino families putting up their Christmas trees and other holiday decorations as early as September. I personally put up my Christmas decors after my favorite "holiday" which is Halloween and...
Editorial The effects of climate change couldn’t be more glaring as the country woke up with the ravages of Typhoon Odette. In some parts of Visayas and Mindanao, communication lines were cut, roads were destroyed, houses tumbled down like sandcastles. And again, calls for help resonated and...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay The Philippines has been proudly wearing the crown of being the most gender equal country in Asia. I may have started as a feminist in my high school days in St. Theresa’s College QC that I sat as a director for the National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay As nations eagerly aspire for the full re-opening of their borders and economies, a new variant of the corona virus puts all these laid out plans in jeopardy. By now, you may have heard that the Omicron variant poses much milder symptoms than its predecessors which may...
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE Dr. Raymundo Lo A recent full page advertisement in a broadsheet argued against forced vaccinations, supposedly from a group called “COVID Call to Humanity.” Let’s examine vaccine mandates and what and how they are done. It is one thing to legislate mandatory vaccinations...
A bill granting married women the rightto retain their maiden names instead of adopting surnames of their husbands has been approved by the House of Representatives.
HOR plenary pandemic With 227 members voting in the affirmative, House Bill 10459 was passed on third and final reading. There...
THE RIGHT MOVE RIKKI MATHAY Everyone loves the feeling of being loved. This gives us the window to choose who we want to spend the rest of our lives with. These may be with friends, potential partners, family members, and even people we meet on the internet. Online dating has been the modern way of...
THE RIGHT MOVE Rikki Mathay Having received several e-mail from our E-Commerce business ideas post-pandemic column, allow me to share a few grassroots business ideas which I saw during my daily distribution of grocery bags or ayudas in the different barangays in District 6, Quezon City. In a...
