The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
100 Small business owners invited to set up shop in SM malls It has been almost two years since the pandemic brought Filipino life and many livelihoods to a screeching halt. According to a 2020 Asian Development Bank (ADB) study of 1,804 Philippine MSMEs, 70.6% were forced to temporarily close with 66.2% reported to have temporary staff cuts during the height of …
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October, 2021
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11 October
Leni Robredo running for president
Vice President Leni Robredo, after days of intense discernment, announced she will run for president in next year’s elections. She filed her certificate of candidacy (COC) the same day she made the announcement, October 7, the penultimate day for filing of COCs.
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11 October
NTC investigates use of emergency alert system for BBM campaign
The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) is investigating the illegal use of alert notification services that contained text messages favoring presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos because of its pitch for “BBM”.
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11 October
Economy should reopen with caution
Moody’s Analytics, an economic research think tank, reported that the Philippines and other countries in Southeast Asia should re-open their economies with caution due to the prevailing risks from new COVID-19 strains.
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11 October
Some Philippine names appear in new offshore data leak – Pandora Papers
Some prominent names in the Philippines emerged in a far-reaching new investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) media consortium, which found that more than a dozen heads of state and government around the world are using offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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11 October
US reveals nuclear bomb numbers after Trump blackout
The US State Department has revealed the number of nuclear warheads the country stockpiles for the first time in four years, after former president Donald Trump placed a blackout on the information.
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11 October
“When I become President…”
Laurencio Jun Yulaga of the Philippine Green Republican Party, a self-proclaimed international scientist and Harvard graduate, who filed his COC for President, claims to have a cure for Covid-19 that Filipinos may find literally shocking. When reporters asked for his platform of government after filing his Certificate of Candidacy with the Commission on Elections, Yulaga said Covid patients just need …
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11 October
Episode 4
‘New Hope’ – that’s the title of Episode 4 of the Star Wars saga, the first of nine films. It also serves to describes the surge of optimism felt by Filipinos when Vice President Leni Robredo declared she is running for president in next year’s polls.
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11 October
Nora Aunor runs for Congress
After her debacle in a gubernatorial bid in Camarines Sur in 2001 Superstar Nora Aunor has mustered another will to plunge into politics once more.
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6 October
Surprises at start of filing of candidacies
By Jonathan P. Gesmundo Certificates of candidacies (CoC) for 18,000 national and local positions – from President to town councilor – are being filed at various Commission on Elections (COMELEC) offices and satellite registration sites nationwide while observing strict health protocols.
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