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Crew with first astronaut from Turkey launched on flight to space station

January 19, 2024

GMA News Online / SciTech

Turkey's first astronaut and three other crew members representing Europe were launched from Florida on Thursday on a voyage to the International Space Station in the latest commercially arranged mission from Texas startup Axiom Space.

Congress passes stopgap bill to prevent a shutdown until March, sending it to Biden

January 19, 2024

The legislation keeps the government open on a short-term basis until March 1, when the first of two funding deadlines will hit. The second will be on March 8.

Unredacted complaint alleges Meta knew of ‘huge volume’ of child sexual harassment on its platforms

January 19, 2024

The new allegations are part of a lawsuit against Meta over the company's steps to protect children online.

Nvidia and AMD shares hit record highs on AI chip surge

January 19, 2024

Investors are increasingly bullish on AMD, which is the second largest standalone GPU maker,

Mark Zuckerberg indicates Meta is spending billions of dollars on Nvidia AI chips

January 19, 2024

Meta appears poised to spend billions of dollars by the end of this year on Nvidia's popular computer chips that are widely used for AI projects

Dow closes 200 points higher Thursday to shake off 3-day slump as Apple shares pop: Live updates

January 19, 2024

The Nasdaq Composite rose Thursday and turned positive for the year, boosted by tech gains.

Amazon Logistics Executive John Felton to Become AWS CFO

January 19, 2024

WSJ.com: WSJD

Amazon.com logistics executive John Felton is taking over as chief financial officer of the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services, according to people familiar with the matter.

Shear line to bring scattered rains over Caraga, Davao Region

January 19, 2024

GMA News Online / SciTech

The shear line will bring cloudy skies with scattered rains over the eastern sections of Visayas and Mindanao while the northeast monsoon (amihan) will bring light rains over parts of Luzon on Friday, PAGASA reported.

Red Sea attacks already bigger issue for supply chain than pandemic, maritime advisory warns

January 19, 2024

Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea are already having a bigger impact on the supply chain than Covid, according to data coming in on cargo vessel delays.

Nelson Peltz is launching a blitz on Disney. Here’s what he says is next in his proxy fight

January 19, 2024

Trian Fund Management will amp up its case to get Nelson Peltz and Jay Rasulo elected to the Disney board in the coming months.

Fed’s Raphael Bostic expects rate cuts to happen in the third quarter

January 19, 2024

The Atlanta Fed president said a "golden path" economic scenario is getting closer than many Fed officials had expected.

This trait is a subtle sign someone is highly intelligent, says psychotherapist—some people are ‘naturally gifted’ with it

January 19, 2024

Highly intelligent people listen and have conversations differently than others do, says psychotherapist Jenny Maenpaa. Here's how to cultivate the skill.

PH, China to lower SCS tensions

January 19, 2024

Rey E. Requejo

Vow closer dialog to deal with ‘maritime emergencies’ in Ayungin Chinese and Philippine officials have agreed on the need for closer dialogue to deal with “maritime emergencies” and de-escalate conflict in the South China Sea, including in the hotly contested Second Thomas or Ayungin Shoal, Beijing said. Manila and Beijing have a long history of […]
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AMRO lowers growth outlook for PHL in 2024

January 19, 2024

Andrea E. San Juan

THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) Macroeconomic Research Office (Amro) sees a weaker momentum for the Philippines, but notes that it will still post the highest growth in the Asean region in 2024.

…But Beijing rebukes Manila to stop ‘wrong words, deeds’ on Taiwan

January 19, 2024

Charles Dantes

China on Thursday urged the Philippines to stick to its One China policy and stop its “wrong words and deeds” about Taiwan, after Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. criticized Beijing’s foreign ministry spokesperson for “gutter-level talk” in reprimanding President Marcos for congratulating Taiwan’s newly elected leader. “China will never accept anyone making provocations on the […]
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‘Budget gap goal doable if rice subsidies junked’

January 19, 2024

Cai U. Ordinario

THE country’s budget deficit target could be attained by 2028 if the government removes billions of pesos worth of rice subsidies that “accomplish little” in improving production and nutrition, according to the Philippine Institute for Development Stu...

‘Gig Tripping’, ‘Set Jetting’ travel trends for 2024–PTAA

January 19, 2024

Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo

WANT to watch Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Tokyo, Singapore, or Sydney? There’s a travel package for that.

Ukraine war updates: Kremlin shares its view of Davos after being snubbed; Russia says Kyiv attacked Baltic oil terminal

January 19, 2024

Russia claimed that Ukraine attacked several Russian regions with drones overnight, including the northern Leningrad region, for the first time.

Recto: Tax reforms vital to debt, deficit tack

January 19, 2024

Cai U. Ordinario

REDUCING the deficit and making the country less dependent on debt can only become a reality if crucial legislative reforms are undertaken, according to the Department of Finance (DOF).

ERC lifts halt in collection of FIT-All as fund declines

January 19, 2024

BusinessMirror

THE Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has lifted the suspension on the collection of the Feed-in Tariff Allowance (FIT-All). This means that consumers will resume paying the FIT-All rate of P0.0364 per kilowatt hour (kWh) that will be reflected in th...

Editorial Cartoon, 19 January 2024

January 19, 2024

Jimbo Albano

Image credits: Jimbo Albano

WHO appeals for $1.5 billion to protect vulnerable people

January 19, 2024

BusinessMirror Editorial

The World Health Organization (WHO), the leading international body responsible for public health, on Monday launched an appeal for $1.5 billion to protect the health of the most vulnerable populations in 41 emergencies around the globe. The appeal co...

From healing to writing to meaning

January 19, 2024

Tito Genova Valiente

Fascinated early on with a local healing ritual called “pagbawi” (literally “to get back” or “to recover”), I have, through the years, never stopped trying to understand the process.

Reading Marco Garrido

January 19, 2024

Joselito T. Sescon

Urban restructuring in developing countries through “globalization of cities in the South” is the intermediate economic background of Marco Garrido’s (2019) more than a decade long ethnographical study of Manila communities made up of urban poor settl...

Strengthening our specialty care centers

January 19, 2024

Sonny M. Angara

Since assuming the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Finance in 2019, we have been committed towards strengthening our public health care system. Providing access to quality health care to all, particularly to our disadvantaged countrymen, is on...

Anita Roddick: Working-class background is an asset

January 19, 2024

Jena Fetalino

It’s not capital, a business degree, connections or name that is essential in launching a business. It is work ethic—and if you got that because of your working-class background, it is even more powerful.

The economics of conflicting medical assessments in seafarers’ disability claims

January 19, 2024

Atty. Dennis Gorecho

Jurisprudence on labor claims, including those involving Filipino seafarers, can be influenced by the interface of law and economics.

Conrad Manila begins year with ‘The More, The Merrier,’ an exclusive group dining offer at Brasserie on 3

January 19, 2024

BusinessMirror

The all-day dining international buffet sets the stage for exciting weekday lunch gatherings with its distinctive 4+1 and 8+2 dining offers available from January to March

China, PHL hold high-level talks

January 18, 2024

Malou Talosig-Bartolome

TWO days after the controversial congratulatory message of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to pro-independence Taiwanese president-elect, China and the Philippines went ahead with the scheduled high-level dialogue on defusing tension in the West Philip...

Experts: Chacha won’t bring in needed investments in PHL

January 18, 2024

Cai U. Ordinario

CHARTER change will not solve the country’s problems in terms of attracting the investments it needs to boost economic growth, according to a local economist and Ibon Foundation Inc.

MAP: Ownership caps, industry limits must top constitutional reforms

January 18, 2024

Andrea E. San Juan

WHILE it has yet to release a “position” on Charter change,the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) said amendments to the Constitution should revolve around ownership caps and industry limitations to address the issues that hamper the coun...

DMW, DOT eye returning OFWs to fill in labor gap

January 18, 2024

Samuel P. Medenilla

THE government is now eyeing returning overseas Filipino workers (OFW) to help address the country’s labor shortage in tourism under a new program of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) and the Department of Tourism (DOT).

U.S. executives in Davos see a Trump victory in 2024, and no cause for concern

January 18, 2024

Both publicly and privately, many U.S. executives at Davos expressed calm and readiness for a potential Donald Trump return to the White House.

Tycoons set sights on joint bid for MRT-3 operations

January 18, 2024

Lenie Lectura

Tycoons Manuel V. Pangilinan and Ramon S. Ang may team up to bid for the privatization of Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3).

PLDT may allot lower capex for this year—exec

January 18, 2024

Lenie Lectura

Businessman Manuel V. Pangilinan said telco giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) is likely to set aside a lower capital expenditure (capex) for this year.

Boeing wins order for Max jets from Akasa

January 18, 2024