Gold leaf farming sector still searching for own El Dorado
THE past five years of the Philippine tobacco industry paint a bleak future: dwindling tobacco area and declining number of farmers.
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THE past five years of the Philippine tobacco industry paint a bleak future: dwindling tobacco area and declining number of farmers.
NOMADIC Bedouin tribes have flourished because of oases, where exhausted travelers take refuge.
THE world is your oyster; but don’t be one. For one, humans are far from being mollusks; for another, being sedentary doesn’t help, especially during lockdowns.
THE sky above the labor market has been shaded a light red as pink slips fell after the government attempted to sandbag a rampaging coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Latest data from the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) reported that as of October 25, 3.73 million workers were affected as lockdown measures almost tanked the economy.
THE Department of Energy (DOE) has repeatedly spread the gospel that full compliance with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation (EE&C) Act would result in profits, savings and sustainable economic development. The challenge, however, is how to compel government agencies and private entities to reduce their electricity and fuel consumption.
A BANGING sound from the front door jolted her mid-morning musing, driblets of black coffee dropping from the white porcelain cup she held.
ZERO is both the easiest and most difficult goal, especially in waste management; just ask Jovito L. Benosa, Zero Waste Program Officer of nonprofit EcoWaste Coalition.
FOR some, the number 13 is a most unlucky number. But when it comes to cash transfers, it seems 13 is a winner, especially for recipients.
RESIDENTS of Barangay Buso-Buso in Laurel, Batangas, have more reason to be wary when school opens. The village was among the hardest hit when Taal Volcano erupted in January, and families were still scraping mud off their homes when the coronavirus pandemic struck. Confronted with two crises, teachers and parents in the barangay are left with no choice but to take their chances on distance learning come October 5.
AT the same time a small store’s window is flung open in Muntinlupa, a woman crosses a narrow overpass in the eastern part of the metropolis; a bicycle in tow.
SOME bankers would consider adjustments to the phaseout of Libor less a labor of love, as the end of the 34-year-old financial tool brings additional tasks the sector must undertake.
MOTHER Nature—if President Trump’s “kung-fu” virus allegation is disbelieved—could be a bitch, sometimes.
FIVE decades since the The Beatles advised people “to carry that weight” in 1969, the Philippines’s debt burden stood at P7.73 trillion ($159.34 billion) as of end-2019. The dollar amount was equivalent to the budget deficit the US addressed nearly two decades ago.
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.
‘TWAS the best of times for egg farmers; a “damn good” year, one even said, not realizing idioms mirror life: never count your eggs before they’re hatched.
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.
By Jeremaiah m. Opiniano / OFW Journalism Consortium
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