The world this week saw the election of a new United States president – Joseph (Joe) Biden Jr. of Delaware, candidate of the Democratic Party, along with his vice-presidential teammate Sen. Kamala Harris of California. Three days after the election, the early counts in the 50 states as...
The Philippine delegation is targeting to attract over 1,300 buyers and generate a modest $31 million worth export deals at the upcoming China International Import Expo (CIIE), significantly lower than the $300 million the Philippines realized during last year’s China International...
It is still a long way before the world expects to have a vaccine for the COVID-19 pandemic. But when it finally comes, probably around January, 2021, the Philippine government already has plans for its acquisition, distribution, implementation, assessment, and monitoring. President Duterte has...
In the mounting worldwide effort to cut down on polluting emissions from the burning of traditional fuels like diesel, gasoline, natural gas, and coal, the world’s scientists and other researchers are now exploring other sources of power for industry, for transportation, for...
Two storms and a typhoon have hit the Philippines in the last three weeks – “Pepito,” “Quinta,” and then typhoon “Rolly” this weekend. A fourth tropical cyclone has now entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility in the east -- tropical storm “Siony”...
The Department of Energy (DOE) last Sunday declared a moratorium on endorsements for coal power plants, following its periodic assessment of the country’s energy requirements. “I’m optimistic this would lead to more opportunities of renewable energy to figure prominently ...
The United States presidential election today, Tuesday, November 3, is drawing very much more than its usual attention from the people of that country as well as the rest of the world for various reasons. Three days before the election, a record number of over 90 million Americans had already cast...
The proposed national budget for 2021 as approved by the House of Representatives has now been transmitted to the Senate. In the final days of House deliberations on the budget, the House increased allocations for programs to enable the government to meet problems raised by the...
Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga used his first policy address to parliament to declare that Japan, the world’s third largest economy after the United States and China, has set a deadline – the year 2050 – to end its emission of polluting greenhouse gasses. “We will bring the...
Coconut farmers are now the poorest people in the agricultural sector, coconut farmer Danny Carranza, a member of the Kilusan para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo at Katarungang Panlipunan, said early his week. He said 95 percent of the 3.5 million hectares of coconut farms in the...
...or as real as possible One of the things that made recently-crowned Miss Universe Philippines 2020 Rabiya Mateo of Iloilo stand out was her answer in the final Q&A portion of the pageant, when the top five contestants were asked: “If you could create a new paper currency with the image of...
While the Philippines is gradually easing its restrictions on the movements of people because of improving figures on COVID-19 infections and deaths, most of the rest of the world was reporting rising cases this weekend. The World Health Organization (WHO) said countries in the northern...
