Wednesdays with John Mangun: Your choice
I have not been out of my house for 141 days. And I am painfully counting each passing day. But with YouTube and my treadmill, I am constantly walking around the world. My choice.
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I have not been out of my house for 141 days. And I am painfully counting each passing day. But with YouTube and my treadmill, I am constantly walking around the world. My choice.
August 19 starts the celebration of the Ghost Month, culminating on the Ghost Festival on September 2. BusinessMirror talked to businessman Adam Sy to gain insights on this important event for the Filipino-Chinese community.
ACROSS seas, seafarers, their ships and the global cruise ship industry are manning panic stations like never before. Covid-19 continues to hammer the well-being and economic future of over 400,000 Filipino seafarers in one of the most dramatic episodes on Filipinos’ international labor migration.
China is weird. Maybe not the country or the people but certainly the response and reaction to China from everywhere and everyone else. China’s relationship with the rest of the world is the textbook definition of “It’s Complicated.”
In an unprecedented crisis that has forced governments to take the hard balancing act between saving economies while curbing the spread of a deadly virus, people look to their leaders for signals of hope on the eve of the State of the Nation Address.
TWENTY-TWENTY will go down as a significant “Year of the Protest,” among other milestones. Perhaps lost in the headline grabbing political protests and riots are the demonstrations about governments’ response to the pandemic that are going global.
It is estimated that around 2.2 million Filipinos or 5.4 percent of the urban population in 2012 lived in informal settlements. As much as 1.3 million are living in Metro Manila, according to World Bank estimates in 2017.
Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, a typical work week for Zian Serranilla, a Key Accounts Executive of snacks company Mondelez Philippines assigned to the SM team, consisted of administrative and field days.
Investing in the stock market is like walking on a tightrope and requires being nimble and proactive. It is wonderful to talk about all the money being made on the Initial Public Offerings and with the “rocketchips” before they crash.
The trade war between Beijing and Washington has shaken up the world market since it started in 2018. A part of the economic disputes between the world’s two largest economies involve millions of farmers: “Escalation of a trade war between the United States and China can throw a monkey wrench in the gears moving agriculture trade.
Steady economic policy failures over a prolonged period create lack of confidence in government. This is followed by an “out with the old; in with the new” action. Unfortunately, bad economic policy reaches far into the future, and like a mammoth supertanker, cannot change course quickly.
Their lives are at risk every day, but mostly from hazards they constantly train to handle—the possibility of electrocution. In the era of the Covid-19 pandemic, however, they concede the perils are different, sending a certain chill down their spine as they set out to work each day. Handling huge voltages of electricity is something they know about, but dealing with an unseen virus, and worse, possibly infecting one’s loved ones, is mental torture.
Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are considered modern-day heroes because they save the economy more than once by sending hard-earned cash back to the Philippines, boosting liquidity and consumption. As host countries grapple with coronavirus disease of 2019 (Covid-19), the tap substantial to gross domestic product at 10 percent, at least may only give drips.
With all the exciting things going on in the Philippines and around the world, talking about the stock market would seem to be a low priority. Except with all the exciting things going on with the stock markets in the Philippines and around the world, talking about the stock market is critical.
As the lockdown pushed the Philippine supply chain into disarray, farmers found a helping hand from agri-preneurs.
The coronavirus disease of 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic not only highlighted the flaws of various food systems in the world but also emphasized one vital thing that has been ailing the farm sector: neglect for food production.
By Samuel P. Medenilla, Cai U. Ordinario & Tyrone Jasper C. Piad
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