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Global Gender Gap Index Reports Progress in the Philippines
This year’s Global gender gap index shows that Thailand has significantly improved on gender equality in the category of educational attainment. The country is ranked 61st, which is up from 92nd last year. With this improvement, the country’s overall position is now 74th. The same report shows, that the Philippines has become better at addressing gender equality, ranking 16th place among 146 countries, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2023.
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Published on 29/06/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, People, Society
Tags: Education, Workers
27 Million Pinoys Overweight or Obese – Global Pharmaceutical Firm
Around 27 million Filipinos are considered overweight or obese, according to a leading global health care company as World Obesity Day was observed last Saturday. “Obesity is particularly prevalent in the Philippines, where 36.6 percent of individuals aged 20 years or older meet the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index or BMI cutoff points for being overweight or obese,”
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Published on 06/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Society
Tags: Health, obesity
Tacloban City: Silently Survived, and Bravely Booming
The collective will of the people who were devastated physically, emotionally, and economically around ten years ago, prevailed. The onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013 claimed thousands of lives and destroyed millions worth of properties. But the sense of courage, and goal of overcoming the devastation is much stronger. And the pride in what the city is right now, vibrant, and progressive, has captured our impression during our recent visit in the city.
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Published on 07/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Environment, Society
Tags: Tacloban, Visayas
The Power of Millennial Votes in Southeast Asia
In early 2019, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines will go to polls in elections that will either continue the populist/authoritarian dynamics that has gripped the region, and the world, over the past few years or begin to halt it. All three countries have reached a critical crossroad with poll choices that could influence the destiny of the country for decades to come.
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Published on 05/03/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Opinion, Politics, Society
Tags: Duterte, President, country
Philippine Onion: Most Expensive in the World
The retail price of red onions ranging from P550 to P700 per kilo in markets around Metro Manila on New Year's Eve made unpleasant headlines during the festive season. Red onion was sold at P90 to P120 in mid-2021 and P120 to P170 four months ago. Onion prices hover around P85 in Singapore, P55 in Vietnam, P35 in China and in India.
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Published on 08/01/2023 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Food and Dining, Society
Tags: China, agriculture, country, farming, government, production
What Keeps PH Business Owners Up at Night?
Day 8 Business Academy Foundation, a social enterprise dedicated to helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), conducted a survey between June and August this year to determine the current state of mind of SME business owners and see what kind of help or assistance they need given the daunting challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published on 08/10/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, Health, Society
Tags: COVID-19, business
'Silence is No Longer an Option'
Nimfa Lanzanas is a model mother. Eversince the government imprisoned her son Edward, she attended court proceedings and also joined relatives of other political prisoners in a common cause. Exactly what crime Nanay Nimfa has committed, only the government knows. But on what is now infamously known as Bloody Sunday, the government had her arrested and turned Nanay Nimfa into a political prisoner herself.
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Published on 13/03/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Opinion, People, Society
Tags: Cavite, government
Filipinos Battered Economically by Pandemic Need P10,000 Aid
Citizens who have been battered economically with the lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic badly need P10,000 worth of financial aid, Bayan Muna said in a statement issued on Wednesday. Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said the government should not wait for Filipinos to suffer more before handing out monetary grants, especially with 4.5 million of them jobless in 2020, as recorded by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
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Published on 11/03/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, Politics, Society
Tags: COVID-19, poverty
Nearly 20M Filipino Women Now 'economically Insecure'
Nearly a year since the lockdown has been imposed, a women’s research center said the number of economically-insecure Filipino women has climbed by 3.5 million, following the loss of jobs, absence of due social protection, and the continuing neoliberal policies that have long been detrimental to the poor even before the pandemic.
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Published on 02/03/2021 by puertoparrot
Categories: Business, News and Events, People, Society
Tags: COVID-19, poverty, women
World Bank: Pandemic to Sink 2.7M More Filipinos in Poverty
The COVID-19 pandemic will make 2.7 million more Filipinos poor this year on top of a record slide in the Philippines’ gross domestic product (GDP) or economic output in what could be the worst outturn post-war, the World Bank said Tuesday.
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Published on 10/12/2020 by puertoparrot
Categories: Health, People, Society
Tags: ASEAN, COVID-19, government, infrastructure, poverty, quarantine, vaccine