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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—In a city known for its excesses, whether reaching toward the sky with the world’s tallest building or hard partying at its beach resorts and bars, Dubai has pulled off another record-breaking feat in the rolling dunes of its desert outskirts.
THIS week we celebrated National Heroes’ Day. For me, it was a week to remember the people who engrained my deep love for the Philippines. I believe it can also be a time for all of us to remember mentors who have somehow, one way or another, taught us something that led us to the person we are today.
A Chinese proverb says: “Solve one problem and keep a hundred away.” Insurgency is a national problem that needs immediate solution to keep a hundred related problems away. No lasting peace is achieved if the government fails to effectively address the problem of insurgency, which tends to grow bigger over time and create new problems. Without lasting peace, there’s no economic growth.
I live in BGC and I consider this one of the best decisions my wife and I had made in our lives. We are now “empty nesters,” and nearing our retirement years, which makes our BGC decision all the more a right move, insofar as we are concerned. Everything you need and need to go are here, and all within walking distance: a world class hospital, church, groceries, cinemas, wide open spaces, walkable and biking lanes, parks, etc. And maybe because most of the BPOs are here, there is no night or day in this area; which makes this place safe to walk around, anytime of the day.
Since 1968 the Oxford English Dictionary has defined “Trivia” as “Details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value. Things of little consequence.” That is wrong on two counts. “Trivia” should also be defined as “Facts [as about people or events] that are not well-known.”
NO light is seemingly on sight yet on the issue of Bohol water rights involving two LGU chief executives, a district representative, and a couple of groups and individuals. I was of the belief that upon my return from medical leave, there is already resolution on the table. On the contrary, complaints and counter complaints continue to pile up at the Office of the Ombudsman.
IF there is an award for public diplomacy this year, I will have to nominate Ambassador Ilan Fluss of Israel to receive the gold medal. Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, you can see him on television, hear his voice over the radio, and read his name all over the newspapers and online publications.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—Gangs are invading Haiti’s rural central region, suffocating a once peaceful area that served as the country’s food basket but that is now plagued by kidnappings, killings and rapes, according to a UN report released Tuesday.
The world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated, experts said.
FORMER Socioeconomic Secretary Ernesto M. Pernia recently lamented the high Philippine population growth rate that had caused the stunting of the economic growth of the nation. Pernia was the sixth of six former NEDA heads who spoke at the UP School of Economic Auditorium in 2023- reflecting “50 Years of Economic Policy-Making.”
WHEN there is friction among team members, a leader needs to manage it right away before it escalates into a full-blown conflict. When a team does not get along well together, it is a leadership issue more than anything else. Your role is to create a safe space for everyone in the team, and not just for a few. When your team knows you have their best interest at heart, you effortlessly create your dream team. As the main culture builder of the team, you set the tone in the way team members relate to one another.
The report of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on international food prices for October may have allowed some nations to heave a sigh of relief. This is because most quotations of food items, including rice, declined. According to FAO, its food price index dipped by 0.5 percent from September, with the index for dairy products the only one rising.
Submitted to the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, Committees on Foreign Relations, Public Works and Finance and Special Committee on Philippine Maritime and Admiralty Zones that are conducting public hearings on the West Philippine Sea by the International Law and Relations Society of the Philippines (ISIP), an intellectual society composed of retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Reynato S. Puno, retired CG Admiral Joel S. Garcia, Dr. Melissa Loja, Prof. Romel Bagares and Atty. Al Soriano.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the discipline concerned with the design and development of automated intelligent systems that perceive, reason out, formulate decisions, and act in an environment to achieve a set of measurable goals.
AS the oft-repeated saying goes, stats matter no more when the moment of truth arrives. Toss them out the window.
China’s escalating push to have its banking behemoths backstop struggling property firms is adding to a maelstrom of woes for the $57 trillion sector.
MAJORITY of entrepreneurs are part of what we call “MSMes.” They contribute to economic growth not only of our country but in the global business landscape.
It’s hard to read any media without running into a new story about different kinds of corruption, collusion, and rule breaking. Whether or not the stories we read are true, organizations caught up in them often lose credibility.
Online scams have become a global problem. The latest annual study by the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and ScamAdviser paints a devastating picture of the worldwide onslaught of scams, highlighting an urgent need for vigilance. The Global State of Scams 2023 Report, which involved 49,459 people from 43 countries, showed a substantial 25.5 percent of citizens around the world lost money to scams or identity theft in the last 12 months, resulting in financial losses estimated at $1.026 trillion.
IT is probably just me, but I cannot wrap my head around a group calling itself “Just Stop Oil” promoting its cause and publicizing its protest activities on the “X” social media platform. It takes a colossal lack of self-awareness to post an “X” message using a Smartphone or computer through the Internet, which is all 100 percent dependent on crude oil.
CREATE is just barely two years old but there is already clamor for its amendment. Why? Is it broken?
Keynote Speech of His Eminence Jose F. Cardinal Advincula, D.D., Archbishop of Manila & CMMA Honorary Chairman at the 45th Catholic Mass Media Awards, November 23, 2023, at the Citystate Tower Hotel-Manila.
Submitted to the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, Committees on Foreign Relations, Public Works and Finance and Special Committee on Philippine Maritime and Admiralty Zones that are conducting public hearings on the West Philippine Sea by the International Law and Relations Society of the Philippines (ISIP), an intellectual society composed of retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Reynato S. Puno, retired CG Admiral Joel S. Garcia, Dr. Melissa Loja, Prof. Romel Bagares and Atty. Al Soriano.
The Philippines has one of the fastest-growing economies in Asia, judging from the 5.9-percent gross domestic product expansion it registered in the third quarter of the year. Sustaining this robust economic expansion through the next few years is now the challenge.
THE buzz in the entertainment universe about couples separating is definitely getting louder as the personalities involved press on with sealed lips despite the relentless clamor for them to straightforwardly admit or deny the rumors.
North Korea appears to have deployed soldiers and weapons to guard posts near the border that were shut in a 2018 deal with South Korea as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up in the wake of Pyongyang’s recent spy satellite launch.
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