The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
Reading sociologist and writer Randy David in his Sunday column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer about generosity makes a well-rounded thought on the issue surrounding the creation of community pantries all throughout the country. Community pantry, since its familiarity when a certain Ana Patricia Non built her own at Maginhawa Street in Quezon City, has been sweeping the entire nation …
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19 March
METROTOWNE to rise in Las Piñas
PHINMA Properties recently broke ground for its latest medium-rise residential community – METROTOWNE – composed of five 15-storey buildings to rise over a 2.1-hectare land in Las Pinas. Photo shows PHINMA President & CEO Raphael B. Fenix (third from left) leading officials of PHINMA and their joint venture partner Giant Phils. Inc. during the ground-breaking and opening of the showroom. …
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2 March
Are health protocols ineffective?
Malacanang and the IATF are feeling the pressure whether to ease quarantine restrictions in order to restart the economy or wait until the curve of COVID cases eases down.
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2 March
Low trust for Sinovac
The recent frenzy over the delayed arrival of vaccines in the Philippines shifts to trust because medical frontliners do not want to be injected with Sinovac which government preferred despite the 50% efficacy.
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1 March
Duterte signs vaccine indemnity law
President Duterte has signed the COVID-19 Vaccination Program Act of 2021 that creates a National Vaccine Indemnity Fund to cover those who might suffer from any adverse side effects after getting inoculated by a COVID vaccine.
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1 March
PNP, PDEA may have been played by drug syndicate—Dela Rosa
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa recently aired his suspicion that drug syndicates may have deliberately misled agents of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) that resulted in a deadly shootout. Dela Rosa stressed he is only theorizing that the PNP and PDEA were played by drug syndicates during Feb. 24 misencounter at the parking …
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1 March
Travel protocols eased
The Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases announced the standardization of rules for travel thereby easing travel restrictions.
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1 March
Corruption deepened poverty in pandemic–UN
The United Nations recently reported that during the pandemic illicit financial flows and tax avoidance led to the deterioration of the condition of the poor.
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1 March
PHL report to UN rights body fans drug war criticism
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra admitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) the President Rodrigo Duterte’s highly controversial war on drugs may have critical flaws in the execution of police operations.
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1 March
BSP forecast economic rebound in 2021
The Philippine economy, battered by the year-long pandemic, faces a positive outlook for 2021 because “essential elements” are in place for a much-needed rebound.
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