Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Alexander Gesmundo recently met with the private sector led by the Judicial Reform Initiative (JRI), an umbrella organization composed of major business associations, foreign chambers of commerce, and judicial advocacy groups that promote the advancement of the...
Today is the start of the "hard lockdown" in Metro Manila and adjoining provinces recommended by OCTA Research, an independent think tank composed of academicians from the University of the Philippines and the University of Santo Tomas that has been providing analysis reports on the...
When it rains, it pours. This adage is especially true for 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Hidilyn Diaz, whose historic achievement last July 26 has overjoyed her fellow Filipinos worldwide. She is set to receive more than P50 million worth of prizes – in stark contrast to her predicament...
July 7, 2021 was an auspicious day for iWave Advanced Research Group Inc. (iWar), a subsidiary of Filipino-Japanese venture iWave Inc. On that date, iWar unveiled the Global Trade Exchange (GTX) at the Freeport Area of Bataan (FAB) in the first-class municipality of Mariveles.
GTX was...
Since March 2020, our country has been experiencing widespread unemployment and underemployment. Rising inflation continues to be exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, which has recorded the longest lockdown in the world. As our economy is bolstered by OFW remittances, the...
Colleges and universities in the Philippines will not go back any more to the "old normal" of face-to-face classes. According to Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) Chairman Prospero de Vera, the national government agency that oversees tertiary schools recently adopted a policy to...
Business leaders are taking great lengths to protect the country's private sector from the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Large companies as well as small and medium enterprises are procuring vaccines for their workforce instead of waiting for the government to provide the long delayed inoculation.
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That is the title of SM Prime Holdings Inc.'s first-ever integrated report presented during its annual stockholders meeting last week. According to SM Prime President Jeffrey Lim, the Integrated Report 2020 translates the listed company's business cycle into a concise, thorough, and...
A year after the National Capital Region (NCR) and the rest of Luzon Island went into the dreaded ECQ, or enhanced community quarantine, for two months, here we are back to square one with the resurgence of COVID-19 cases and hard lockdowns in NCR plus the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite,...
What was previously unthinkable happened this month in the country's biggest and westernmost province, Palawan. A non-government organization (NGO) achieved a rare victory against powerful state forces in the recently concluded plebiscite seeking the Palaweños' approval of a law that...
A new era of high-speed connectivity is about to begin in the Philippines, which has long suffered from having the slowest internet services among Indo-Pacific nations.
Both the executive and legislative branches of government have given the green light to the entry of global satellite...
March 16, 1521 was the day when Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan "discovered" the Philippines on behalf of the Spanish Empire. However, this fact is being downplayed during the commemorative activities that are lined up for the milestone celebration in our staunchly Roman Catholic...
