Are your post-holiday items just sitting idly in your home? If so, recycling them is an impactful way to kick-start 2024 with a commitment to saving the planet. In an eye-opening projection for 2045, the Commission on Audit anticipates an annual solid waste production of 24.50 million metric...
SERVICE ROBOTS -- This picture taken on January 18, 2023 shows service robots developed by Tokyo-based robotics firm ZMP (from left); single-seat mobility robot RakuRo, security robot PATORO, and delivery robot DeliRo at the company's service station in Tokyo. "Excuse me, coming through," a...
Editorial “Let's have a more humble Christmas, with more humble gifts,” Pope Francis said in his weekly general audience at the Vatican. The Pope’s message “to lower the level of Christmas spending” is a plea for help to the people of Ukraine who will be spending winter nearly 10 months...
Humble Sustainability, a circular economy startup from the Philippines, announced it closed its oversubscribed seed round led by Seedstars International Ventures. In a statement, Humble said that other participants in the seed round include iSeed Ventures, an early stage venture capital in San...
The camp of presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos is telling its supporters and campaigners to remain humble despite successive positive signs that point to a potential big victory in the polls next month. Presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos (Noel Pabalate/MANILA BULLETIN) "We continue to urge...
LOCAD’s localized fulfillment helps Humble champion sustainability by reducing the carbon footprint often associated with e-commerce shipping. In the near future, the Humble co-founders plan to use tech to measure quantifiable impacts like carbon footprint reduction from recycling or upcycling...
We all have something we’re proud about. A new job, a raise you totally deserve, a new property or a car, even a career milestone you worked so hard for. While it’s human to be proud, it’s often considered pathetic to seek attention or validation for one’s achievements or good fortune....
One of the many trends that people have enjoyed and, at the same time, dreaded during the pandemic is decluttering. Most of us continue to accumulate more things as online shopping grows more popular, turning our homes into a cramped space. This dilemma actively plays a factor as the Philippines is...
WALA LANG … there’s no place like home. Still on a Virtual History Trail The Pact of Biak-na-Bato was a truce during the Philippine Revolution, signed on Dec. 15, 1897. It provided for an end of the hostilities and, among others, an amnesty, reparations, and the exile of Gen. Emilio...
BATANG MAYNILA Be it vaccination or education, in Manila, it is never a requisite to present a voter’s ID. It is also never a “requirement” for one to present a Manila zip code just to be able to enroll in college of be accepted in any of the hospitals being run by the city government. In...
Department of Agriculture (DA) Secretary William Dar received a nice compliment from President Duterte during late Monday night's "Talk to the Nation" public briefing. Agriculture Secretary William Dar (Photo courtesy of Malacañang) In the pre-recorded briefing on Aug. 9, Dar reported to the...
•The author covered the Aquino presidency for six years • Former President Aquino made himself broadly accessible to the media, giving frank and lengthy answers in interviews • With a copy of the Constitution on standby, PNoy rattled off facts and figures to back up pronouncements • He did...
