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covid-19 impact

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Unicef’s call: Ensure kids’ learning recovery

  • Roderick Abad
  • August 29, 2023

WITH the opening of classes today, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) called for immediate and collective actions for the learning recovery of the Filipino youth, especially those affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.

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DOE grants relief to West Philippine Sea oil-gas explorer

  • Lenie Lectura
  • June 28, 2023

THE Department of Energy (DOE) has granted force majeure to the work commitments of Palawan55 Exploration and Production Corporation under service contract (SC) 55 due to operational and financial risks cited by the subsidiary of ACE Enexor (ENEX).

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BSP data reveals jobs outlook in next 12 mos less desirable

  • Cai U. Ordinario
  • June 26, 2023

WITH the confidence of businesses waning, the jobs outlook has become less desirable in the next 12 months, latest data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) shows.

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The power of short breaks, movement and other practices on improving mental health – 4 essential reads

  • Jacqueline Kim and Michelle McAdams | The Conversation
  • August 12, 2022
Four essential reads that explore some daily habits and practices that have been shown to improve mental health. These are food for thought, not guidelines or medical advice, but reading these articles could be the first steps toward a healthier lifestyle.
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Our new enemy is complacency

  • BusinessMirror
  • August 12, 2022
Filipinos already know how to avoid Covid infection. But as the pandemic abates, we have a new enemy—pandemic fatigue and complacency. Let’s not allow complacency to undermine efforts to control the spread of Covid in the country.
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Children are bombarded with violence in the news – here’s how to help them cope

  • Nicole Martins, Indiana University and Erica Scharrer, UMass Amherst | The Conversation
  • July 19, 2022
Parents and caregivers are faced with the dilemma of wondering how to speak with their children about the unspeakable. How can adults help children feel safe when imagery about tragedies abounds throughout the media?
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30 years needed to revert to pre-Covid debt level

  • Cai U. Ordinario
  • May 23, 2022
If the country’s fiscal rectitude reaches an equivalent of 3.4 percent of GDP annually, the country will reach prepandemic debt levels in a decade; but if only 1.3 percent of GDP is achieved every year, prepandemic debt levels could be attained only 30 years after or in 2051.
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Airbnb posts $55-million 4Q profit, revenue above 2019

  • The Associated Press
  • February 17, 2022
The closure of offices has helped Airbnb, as some white-collar workers have opted to work from rental housing far from home. A rising percentage of Airbnb bookings have been long — 28 days or more.
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Omicron unravels travel industry’s plans for a comeback

  • The Associated Press
  • December 1, 2021
From shopping districts in Japan and tour guides in the Holy Land to ski resorts in the Alps and airlines the world over, a familiar dread is rising about the renewed restrictions.
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After months in lockdown, a weary world is ready to dance

  • The Associated Press
  • October 28, 2021
Maybe it’s because of the advent of COVID-19 vaccines. Maybe it is because feet can be repressed for just so long. But it seems that everywhere, dancers are letting loose.
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A new momentum in transforming agri-food systems in the march to end hunger

  • Qu Dongyu
  • October 19, 2021

This year’s World Food Day finds us at a critical moment. The Covid-19 pandemic remains a global challenge, causing untold losses and hardship. The impacts of the climate crisis are all around us. Crops have gone up in flames. Homes have been washed away. Lives and livelihoods have been thrown into turmoil due to conflict and other humanitarian emergencies. Global food security challenges have not been this severe for years.

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UNICEF: Battered by pandemic, kids need mental health help

  • The Associated Press
  • October 5, 2021
UNICEF said it may take years to fully measure the extent of the pandemic's impact on young people's mental health. Psychiatrists quickly saw signs of distress, with children and adolescents seeking help for suicidal thoughts, anxiety, eating disorders and other difficulties as lockdowns and switching to remote learning severed them from friends and routines and as COVID-19 killed parents and grandparents.
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Investment in residential construction a ‘win-win-win’

  • Cai U. Ordinario
  • October 4, 2021

EVERY $1 million worth of investment in housing construction creates 165 jobs in the Philippines, according to a study commissioned by Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter.

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Residential property prices down in Q2–BSP

  • Bianca Cuaresma
  • September 27, 2021
The average appraised value per square meter of new housing units in the country contracted by 29.1 percent from its level in the previous year.
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Outsourcing sector goes against strong pandemic current with resilience

  • Tyrone Jasper C. Piad
  • September 15, 2021
The BPO sector, given its impact and reach, has been touted as a life vest for an economy that has been drowning since the pandemic punched holes into it and threatened to sink it.
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Mormon vaccine push ratchets up, dividing faith’s members

  • Sophia Eppolito | Associated Press/Report for America
  • September 1, 2021
Members of the faith widely known as the Mormon church remain deeply divided on vaccines and mask-wearing despite consistent guidance from church leaders as the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus spreads.
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Dealing with mental health crisis one Zoom call at a time

  • The Associated Press
  • August 29, 2021
Police officers are hitting the streets with tablets that can connect people in distress immediately with mental health professionals. And Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says the Treatment Response Team has been successful bringing calm to the tensest of domestic situations involving people at risk of hurting themselves or others.
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How tablets got their groove back

  • Gerard Ramos
  • August 28, 2021
The end is not yet in sight for the Covid-19 pandemic, and it behooves people to continue to find ways to be productive despite the constraints in this so-called new normal. And whether for virtual meetings or virtual classrooms, the Huawei MatePad 2021 is an incredible tool to have in facing the prevailing challenges. 
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