Feb 15, 2021, Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines Remittances of overseas Filipinos contract by only 0.8% in 2020, beating economists’ expectations Despite mass layoffs worldwide, repatriations, and lockdowns, remittances of overseas Filipinos (OFs) fell by only 0.8% in 2020, as workers found ways to send home much-needed funds to help support struggling loved ones in the…
Philippine Daily Inquirer /February 15, 2021 Inflation spiked last January to its highest in two years, catching government and private sector economists by surprise. Not only was the rate of increase in prices of basic commodities the highest since January 2019’s 4.4 percent, it also breached the government’s target range of 2-4 percent for 2021….
Feb 14, 2021, Reuters YANGON, Myanmar (UPDATED) More than 384 people have been detained since the coup, says a monitoring group, in a wave of mostly nightly arrests Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar for a 9th day of anti-coup demonstrations on Sunday, February 14, as the new army rulers…
Kathleen A. Llemit (Philstar.com) – February 8, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — For over a decade now, South Korea has been known not only for its K-pop and K-dramas, but also for its beauty industry that has been expected to grow to more than $379 billion, according to an IBISWorld report cited by CNBC. In the Philippines,…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / INQUIRER.net /February 12, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Good luck from charms might turn into a bad fortune, according to a local environment watchdog, if consumers won’t be keen enough to know that their prosperity amulets could be a vessel of poisonous substances. EcoWaste Coalition on Friday warned of toxic…
By: Cathrine Gonzales – Reporter / INQUIRER.net / February 12, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Half of the 10,000 Covid-19 vaccines from China’s state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm will be allocated to the wives of members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday. FDA director-general Eric Domingo confirmed this in…
Feb 6, 2021/Reuters yangon, myanmar (UPDATED) In an upwelling of anger in the country’s largest city protesters chant, ‘Military dictator, fail, fail; Democracy, win, win’ and hold banners reading ‘Against military dictatorship.’ Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Saturday, February 6, to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of…
Feb 5, 2021, Ralf Rivas MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) Poor Filipinos struggling to pay water and electricity bills now have more problems to worry about, as food prices jump amid the coronavirus crisis Other than the COVID-19 crisis and unemployment, Filipinos now have even more problems to worry about as food prices are on the rise….