BM Broader Look Podcast
Proposals pushed for fixing PHL’s path to prosperity post-pandemic
The indefatigable spirit of the intrepid Filipino has always driven many bright minds to offer what little hope there is; a solace for taking up the journey from the vicissitudes the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has wrought.
Pandemic presses PHL’s pain points: Problems, proposals
LOCAL economists and analysts are not optimistic about the country’s economic outlook given the extent of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: The economic chaos train wreck
Having previously talked about it for months, the economic chaos cycle is beginning to bite. Well, you might say, there would not be any economic crisis if not for the “black swan” event of the COVID-19.
Tuesdays with Tito: Emilia’s universe of the End of the World
EMILIA was my grandmother on the mother’s side. When she was still alive, she would share with us what she could read in nature—in the plants and animals around us. She would look at the sky and clouds, and would tell us if the next day would be one of rains or storm.
Monday Market Talk: March 23, 2020
Monday Market Talk, a BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market, is based on the Stock Market Outlook story that comes out in the print edition and online version every Monday under the Companies section of the BusinessMirror.
Farm Fridays with Jennifer Ng: Hybrid Rice Technology with Frisco Malabanan [Rerun]
As the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic continues to wreak havoc in our country, the Farm Fridays segment of the BM Broader Look podcast deemed it prudent to make our guest avoid traveling to our studio in Makati City. Hence, we hope you also keep yourself safe and healthy. And enjoy listening again to past episodes of the Farm Fridays podcast like this one.
PHL building future where Lolo and Lola remain part of the working class
Would you allow your lolo or lola to work? Some do, some are averse to the idea as this story discusses the topic on the entry of senior citizens in the workforce. This story titled “PHL building future where Lolo and Lola remain part of the working class” was written by BusinessMirror reporters Jovee Marie De la Cruz and Samuel P. Medenilla and BusinessMirror contributor Alladin Diega.
Tuesdays with Tito: Reading & writing volcano
With the eruption of Taal last Sunday, January 12, 2020, there came an irruption or outbreak of languages.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: Our destructive mindset
I do not want to talk about the stock market or the economy. However, both are more interesting than the babble surrounding many of the other front-page topics.
Farm Fridays with Jennifer Ng: Coffee Industry with Pacita ‘Chit’ Juan
In this podcast, we talk to Pacita “Chit” U. Juan, President of the Philippine Coffee Board Inc., about the status of the country’s coffee industry. Juan has been involved in the coffee industry for more than two decades, having been a top executive of Figaro Coffee.
Remembering ‘Amba’
The story of the multi-awarded BusinessMirror newspaper is part of the bigger story of the life of its founder, philanthropist and Ambassador Antonio L. Cabangon Chua, whose fourth death anniversary we commemorated on March 11.
Tuesdays with Tito: The revelations of January 2020
It is just the beginning of the 2020, and we are all already facing all these calamities and world crisis. The events have overtaken all our consciousness that we do not have time to ruminate on the manifestations of climate change.
Monday Market Talk: March 9, 2020
Monday Market Talk, a BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market, is based on the Stock Market Outlook story that comes out in the print edition and online version every Monday under the Companies section of the BusinessMirror.
The journalist behind the weekly Stock Market Outlook story is BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag.
Breather Moments with BM: Jana Garcia
Today’s “Breather Moments with BM” segment of the BM Broader Look podcast features Jana Garcia, the OPM Angel and a versatile artist with remarkable vocals and a standout performance. Listen to Jana as she talks to BusinessMirror Special Projects Editor Edwin Sallan about her music and her recently released songs.
PHL winning battle vs swine fever but may lose the war
Wrestling with a greased pig, a common fare in local village fiesta celebration, describes the Philippines’s war with a virus that has led to the death of hundreds of thousands of pigs and has maimed the livestock sector.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: ‘OMG, Honda closes down!’
It must be nice to live in a world that extends intellectually only as far as the eye can see. It makes thinking about issues easy if not accurate or complete.
Tuesdays with Tito: In search of true kin
In this podcast, Tito Valiente discusses his search for a “Valiente.”
Monday Market Talk: March 2, 2020
Monday Market Talk, a BusinessMirror podcast on the Philippine stock market, is based on the Stock Market Outlook story that comes out in the print edition and online version every Monday under the Companies section of the BusinessMirror.
The journalist behind the weekly Stock Market Outlook story is BusinessMirror reporter VG Cabuag.
Breather Moments with BM: Collaboratory.ph
This “Breather Moments with BM” podcast segment features Spoken Word artists Mark Dimaisip and Leandro Reyes who will talk about Collaboratory.ph (https://www.facebook.com/collaboratory.ph/posts/leandro-reyes-and-mark-dimaisip-discussing-and-performing-poetry-for-business-mi/2387926017920567/) and share three poems: “Why poetry,” “Liway” (Reyes) and “Murphy’s Toilets” (Dimaisip).
Women of Bacoor’s embattled mussel industry struggle for survival
This is a Broader Look story on how the women of Bacoor fight for the survival of one of the city’s key economic growth contributors: the mussel industry.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: The ‘Roaring Twenties’
It obviously only happens once in a century when the year is a repeated number, like 1818, 1919 and now—2020. In addition, 100 years ago, the world entered the “Roaring Twenties,” which was not just an American experience.
Tuesdays with Tito: Living with a Dead Language
It will be of interest to those who have time to be Latinist that in Bikol we are in perpetual debates about the words we have borrowed from other languages, Spanish in particular.
Breather Moments with BM: Big Mountain’s Joaquin “Quino” McWhinney
In this podcast, BusinessMirror SoundStrip Editor Edwin P. Sallan talks to Big Mountain’s lead singer Joaquin “Quino” McWhinney, the artist behind the hit song “Baby I love Your Way.”
Wednesdays with John Mangun: The volcano and the condos
I am totally biased. I think that Tagaytay and the surrounding areas are an abomination against man and nature.
Tuesdays with Tito: From scraps, our nation’s history
Note for a fact that “rumor-mongering” was a crime during martial law. Not historical discourse but rumors are our salvation from forgetting.
Farm Fridays with Jennifer Ng: Agricultural Value Chain with economist Pablito M. Villegas
In this episode of Farm Fridays, BusinessMirror Associate Editor Jennifer Ng and University of the Philippines economist and former Land Bank of the Philippines President Pablito M. Villegas talked about the challenges facing local planters, particularly smallholders.
Pre- and post-rice trade liberalization law, big traders gaming farmer groups
RIGHT from the get-go, experts had projected the opening up of the Philippine rice market as the gateway to a better life for Filipinos: lower staple prices leading to slower inflation and lesser hunger.
Wednesdays with John Mangun: Markets in the time of confusion
We are in a time of chaos. We think of that word in terms of negative situations, but it means a period of instability and unpredictability.
Tuesdays with Tito: When clouds matter more than love
It is wrong to think of clouds as furtive, fleeting, ephemeral.