Fishermen in Bicol region, which was badly hit by Ulysses and Rolly, are worried that if they won’t be able to recover from the recent typhoons fast enough and fix their boats, they will stay hungry until February next year. Lagonoy Gulf Integrated Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Management...
A week since Typhoon Ulysses hit the country, the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) has allowed miners to re-align their funds for their respective Social Development and Management Programs (SDMP) to bankroll their typhoon relief efforts. “In the interest of public service and for humanitarian...
Dismayed over the Philippines disaster responses in the recent typhoons, Business groups have urged Filipinos to move in an efficient fashion in partnership with local government units to mitigate the impact of climate change. “We express serious concern about the state of our...
The Philippines moved up a notch to 48th in the latest global talent ranking where the country was shown scoring the worst performance in most subfactors related to investments and development in the education sector. Now on its 7th edition, the annual Talent Ranking Report 2020 by the Institute...
The country’s top corporations have shown that they have been walking the talk even before signing the Covenant for Shared Prosperity wherein they have sacrificed profitability in order to take care of their stakeholders and ensure sustainability....
Why financial preparedness is vital to preparing for the inevitable Remember those days when during unplanned family reunions because of a sudden death in the family, that death itself would be the main topic? Think how many times when family members would identify and make count of those...
The Department of Finance (DOF) is pursuing steps to untangle the legal issues tying down idle mining assets held by the government in an effort to speed up their privatization and revive their operations. ...
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), about 4,958 metric tons, or nearly 5 million kilograms of meat was produced in 2016, with pork in the lead. This translates as to how much pork Filipinos consume, almost on the daily, and how high the demand is for the commodity. ...
Most Filipino dishes such as adobo, sinigang, and menudo have pork as a key ingredient in them. This shows how Filipinos love consuming the protein and gives aspiring pig raisers a glimpse of how large the demand is for the meat. A webinar broadcasted by the Agricultural Training Institute in...
By Patricia Bianca S. Taculao Venturing into pig farming can be a profitable business due to the high demand of pork in the market. Yet it requires the right know-how along with the necessities in terms of housing, food, and such to make the operation work. In the previous article ,...
Federico “Piki” R. Lopez Federico “Piki” R. Lopez, chairman and CEO of the Lopez Group’s First Philippine Holdings Corporation, is the Management Association of the Philippines’ (MAP) Management Man of the Year 2020. The “MAP Management Man of the Year” is a prestigious award that...
Former beauty queen Mariel de Leon's dream to have her face on a billboard has been fulfilled. Mariel, who represented the Philippines at the 2017 Miss International beauty pageant, shared on social media recently that her photo made it to one of the billboards at Times Square in New York. "My...
