The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
The World Economic Forum recently held its inaugural Sustainable Development Impact Summit, positioned as a platform to help advance public-private cooperation – and harness the potential of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Agreement on climate change.
Points of View & Perspectives
September, 2017
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3 September
UBER’S P500 million lesson in humility
One by one, mousy, inconsequential and oft-ridiculed government agencies are stepping up and are finally flexing hitherto unused regulatory muscle.
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1 September
Duterte backs FDA thrusts
It looks like the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) remains as the only agency in the government health sector that can weather the onslaught of controversies. It will be recalled that the Department of Health (DoH), the mother agency, has been besieged with issues which held the confirmation of Secretary Paulyn Ubial by the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) hostage.
August, 2017
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20 August
The home we carry in a bowl of ‘ginataang bilo-bilo’
No special occasion, really. A few spoonful at a time for dessert or as a second breakfast would be it, though I like it mixed with fruits, cereal and wheat bran, cold, for breakfast, concocting a new taste, which, while signaling the satiation of a longed-for flavor and an affirmation that the home we carry remains lodged within, also hints …
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13 August
The many ways Filipinos express emotions
My sister came home once with the news of how her boss heard his daughter’s first laughter on his cell phone, and howgarakgak , an Iluko word, instantly came to her mind; but could she tell her boss how this actually describes the sound that thrilled him? How a baby’s laughter first cracks like a branch and screeches with heaves …
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13 August
Queen of Philippine chocolate spreads ‘tablea’ to the world
At the recent Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Ministerial Meeting, guests and delegates were treated to a live demonstration of making cacao de bola, which is chocolate in its purest form by tablea maker Racquel Choa, who is known as the “Queen of Chocolate”.
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13 August
‘Nagmamahal Meralco’ launched to counter ‘sweetheart’ power deals
Civil society organizations and consumers from the Power for People Coalition (P4P) who petitioned against Meralco’s Power Supply Agreements launched “Nagmamahal, Meralco “, a campaign contesting the company’s sweetheart deals with companies powered by dirty and costly energy.
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6 August
Boracay residents appeal to Secretary Cimatu
It was the best island in the world in 2012, according to the prestigious international travel magazine Travel + Leisure.
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6 August
New York City—what makes you pine to be there?
Mention of New York City would often bring on an “Ooowww…” with a slight rise of the brow. It’s not unusual. True, New York easily fulfills a dream, of “seeing and believing”, but one could also be startled finding the ordinary.
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6 August
Art as tool to spread message of peace
Zamboanga City—Tausug painter Rameer Amilasan Tawasil is using the canvass to bat for peace, drawing inspiration from his dark childhood marred by bloodshed and the chaos of the Moro rebellion.