Melcah Jen Caballero (Photo from Caballero's Facebook account) Melcah Jen Caballero boosted her Olympic qualifying preparations after an impressive finish at the 2021 World Indoor Rowing Championships over the weekend. Caballero, double gold medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games, settled for...
Developing countries in East Asia, including the Philippines, need to support innovation to promote productivity growth and economic progress, a new World Bank report revealed. While developing countries in East Asia have an impressive record of sustained growth and poverty reduction, World Bank...
Globe Telecom Inc. has been re-inventing itself to give customers the best overall experience. It's all in the spirit of becoming a #1stWorldNetwork. “Aside from faster speeds, our goal has always been to give consumers easy access to all the digital use cases they desire," President and Chief...
Filipinos can expect higher meat prices as the cost of animal feed ingredients, primarily corn and soybean, has been on an uptrend worldwide. In a virtual briefing on Monday, Feb. 22, Asis Perez, convenor of food security advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan, has raised concerns over the rising prices of...
Photo from Top Rank's Twitter Mexico's Oscar Valdez dethroned Miguel Berchelt on Saturday, knocking him out with one second left on the 10th round in a stunning upset, to claim the World Boxing Council junior lightweight title in Las Vegas. Valdez, who scored two knockdowns earlier in the fight,...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas Last February 17, the whole Christian world started the Lenten season. This is the second time we will be spending this penitential period under the heavy weight of the pandemic which has, as we say in the Oratio Imperata for the Protection Against the...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) has been formally asked by its legally mandated arm for stakeholders' participation, Philippine Council for Agriculture and Fisheries (PCAF), to withdraw its petition to lower import tariff rates on pork. Instead, PCAF is proposing for the government to allow the...
The Department of Agriculture (DA) is now pushing to further expand the minimum access volume (MAV) allocation on pork to 404,210 metric tons (MT) from the current 54,000 MT, a proposal that has already been sent to President Rodrigo Duterte for approval. On Tuesday (Feb. 16), Agriculture Secretary...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 1) As one of the members of the Constitutional Commission that drafted the 1987 Constitution, I am lending my voice to the clamor of some sectors led by House Speaker Lord Allan Q. Velasco to amend the restrictive economic provisions of this fundamental...
CHANGING WORLD Dr. Bernardo M. Villegas (Part 3) How do we combat the evils of consumerism? The major faiths, whether Islam, Christianity, or Hinduism, have a common response: know how to tame or discipline your body, your excessive desire for material comfort. There is no alternative to...
Old problems require new solutions and for Kapuso Jasmine Curtis-Smith, the age-old problem of piracy movies is now her dilemma for "Midnight In A Perfect World." Jasmine aired her concerns in an Interview with GMA Network.com. "It is really sad and I really hope we get a point wherein film piracy...
Heaps of praise continued to pour for Bren Esports as Leyte representative Lucy Torres-Gomez filed on Tuesday, February 2, a resolution honoring the decorated esports organization for winning the recently concluded M2 World Championship held in Singapore. Celebrity-turned-politician...
