Editorial Filipinos are among the most excited in Southeast Asia to switch to electric vehicles (EV). This was the finding of a Nissan-commissioned study by Frost & Sullivan in 2020, titled “The Future of Electrified Vehicles in Southeast Asia.” Forty-five percent of Filipino car drivers...
Editorial The central bank’s efforts to convince banks to release more funds to pandemic-hit borrowers especially the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) finally paid off in August when bank lending shifted from a contraction to a growth for the first time since December 2020. Faster...
Editorial The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases has decided to extend the pilot implementation of the new Alert Levels System for COVID-19 response in the National Capital Region (NCR) while relaxing some of the Level 4 restrictions that were...
Editorial For once in this divisive political climate, all members of the Senate and the House of Representatives voted as one when they unanimously approved a measure extending the voter registration deadline for the national elections in 2022. Senate Bill 2408 was supported by House Bill 10261,...
Editorial The International Day of Older Persons is observed on October 1 each year. The holiday was observed for the first time on Oct. 1, 1991; hence, this day has been observed for the past three decades. Raising awareness on issues affecting older persons, such as senescence – or...
Editorial The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced millions of Filipinos to shelter at home and harness the power of the internet for work, education, entertainment, and shopping for both necessities and “retail therapy.” With so many people going online for the first time, e-commerce has seen...
Editorial Election watchers are now predicting that this upcoming campaign for national elective posts will not only be one of the most divisive in our history, but may also become one of the most wasteful. In the absence of crowd-drawing rallies or mammoth miting-de-avance near election day,...
Editorial Given limited resources, new entrepreneurs always think of how to recover whatever capital they have invested in the shortest time possible. This brings the franchising concept handy. Sherill Quintana, one of the country’s most successful entrepreneurs and president of the Philippine...
Editorial As the United Nations General Assembly opened last week, world leaders including President Duterte pointed to the ever-increasing risks brought on by the climate change crisis, even as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on. Their collective concern foreshadows the agenda of COP26, the UN...
Editorial A video posted online showed a female OFW at the Qatar airport saying they were being instructed to throw away their face shields. A passenger on a Tokyo flight onboard a Japanese airline noting the non-mandatory wearing of a face shield. A Pinoy student in Beijing wondering why there’s...
Editorial When President Duterte finally approved a pilot program for limited in-person classes for the first time since the pandemic disrupted learning, it came on the heels of the Philippines being one of the last countries to do so. In recent weeks, concerns were raised as blended learning was...
Editorial When President Ferdinand E. Marcos issued Presidential Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under martial law effective September 21, 1972, the country had a population of 37.9 million. Out of the present population of 111.3 million, 73.4 million or two out of every...
