Frontliners leaving home and family to serve amid the COVID-19 pandemic
A family for Filipinos means the world. The welfare of a wife, child, father, mother, brother or sister is paramount in any Filipino’s mind, a gritty yet devoted few would…
P1.3-T post pandemic stimulus package eyed
The House of Representatives is preparing a measure that seeks to allot some P1.3 trillion as economic stimulus to help the economy recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.…
Korean pharmas form unprecedented alliance to fight pandemic
Korea Pharmaceutical and Bio-Pharma Manufacturers Association via The Korea Herald SEOUL — Governmental organizations and the pharma industry are of the same mind in South Korea when it comes to…
Negative oil futures price reflects shock of COVID-19 pandemic
A line handler helps dock the oil tanker, Texas Voyager, as it pulls into its mooring to offload its crude oil at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,on April 21,…
Training of trainers for pandemic response held
PGH, one of the COVID-19 referral government hospitalsINQUIRER FILE PHOTO Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), the country’s major private sector vehicle and coordinator for disaster management, conducted a coronavirus (COVID-19)…
Stocks climb as pandemic winners pull away on Wall Street
NEW YORK — Even in this new stay-at-home, increasingly jobless economy, some businesses are making out as clear winners, and gains for Amazon, health care companies and stocks in other…
US think tank sees PH surviving COVID-19 pandemic with 1 percent growth
The Asia-Pacific region is expected to lead global recovery once dust from the COVID-19 pandemic settles, with the Philippines among only a few economies seen to eke out modest growth…
COVID-19 pandemic boosts demand for Cirtek’s medical chips
Cirtek’s manufacturing hub in Laguna(photo: www.cirtekholdings.com) The global war against COVID-19 pandemic has boosted the order book for Philippine-made electronic chips needed to produce critical medical devices. Laguna-based electronics manufacturing…
PH economic stimulus plan sees pandemic lasting till midyear
Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III on Tuesday presented to the House of Representatives a P1.45-trillion package of fiscal measures to ensure that the economy would “bounce back” from the impact…
IMF cuts 2020 PH growth forecast to 0.6%, expects unemployment to rise amid COVID-19 pandemic
MANILA, Philippines – The COVID-19 pandemic would not only slow the Philippines’ economic growth to a dismal 0.6 percent but also render more Filipinos jobless this year, the Washington-based International…