One beautiful, blue morning in 1994, I received a call from my mother in California. In a hushed voice, she told me that my Aunt Leona, my father's twin sister, had been murdered in her home in the Philippines, her throat...
IBON research head Sonny Africa last week said that since 1995, the year when the Philippines became a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and began liberalization of the economy in earnest, local establishments have ceased operations or retrenched workers mainly due to financial reasons ...
said reports of a new wave of drug-related killings in thePhilippineswere "alternative facts" spread by opposition groups and "repeated by the Western media,"CNN reportedin May. Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase "alternative facts" – a cousin of "fake news"–to defend ...
In January 2023, news reverberated across media outlets dedicated to breakthroughs innovations in biotechnology and in the healthcare sector. It announced the initiation of clinical trials for a protein kinase inhibitor INS018_055 – the first anti-fibrotic small molecule inhibitor with promising anti-...
In its 50 years of development, ASEAN has actively embraced globalization and at the same time pushed forward regional integration. The booming tourism industry of Thailand, the growing fruit export sector of the Philippines, and Singapore's fast development in financial and shipping services, are ...
"We are living in the era of global interdependency, human civilization depends on global commons as the climate system, the oceans, global resources, are stability of international financial markets," Messner said. He added that the election of U.S. President Donald Trump and Brexit could be ...
Language in educationLinguistic landscapes Mindful about multilingualism *** By Maria Regina P. Arriero and Pia Tenedero *** Each year, we celebrate Buwan ng Wika or (National) Language Month in the Philippines. Formerly focused only on the Filipino… ...
The health and wellbeing impacts of commercial activity on Indigenous populations is an emerging field of research. The alcohol industry is a key driver of health and social harms within Australia. In 2016 Woolworths, the largest food and beverage retail
Corporations geared to this new reality benefit from enormous economies of scale in production, distribution, marketing, and management. By translating these benefits into reduced world prices, they can decimate competitors that still live in the disabling grip of old assumptions about how the world ...
Likewise, we have witnessed a growing Hispanization of the US, Arabization of France, and Turkization of Germany where low-paying, unpleasant or dangerous occupations are the only ones that await newcomers. From the standpoint of some countries such as the Philippines and Sri Lanka where ...