Educational networking and study tours enhance liaison, cooperation, and possible partnerships among participating universities. I organized one such tour in Central China in November...

The surveys show that the Filipino people are optimistic about the new year; that their lives will be better off in 2020.

AS THE PANDEMIC trashes the world economy, one business is booming. The number of ransomware attacks, where hackers encrypt a user’s data files and then demand payment to restore access, climbed by 20% in the first half of the year to reach 121.4 million assaults, according to data security firm SonicWall.

Since our quarterly outlook issued a little over two weeks ago, the Philippines reported three new cases of the COVID-19 disease in addition to the three cases detected at the time of our report (with one death). In the meantime, travel ban for inbound travelers from certain regions of South Korea has been imposed, alongside that for China and its administrative regions. With the virus spreading rapidly in different continents, the fear is that the virus is spreading undetected within the country. Analysts in the meantime have started to increase their estimates of the adverse impact of the COVID-19 on local growth with some shaving 0.3 percentage points (ppt) off their original forecasts.

“Data dump” is defined as the transfer of large amounts of data from one system or location to another. It refers to a machine-to-machine...

COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) is especially hard on the old and frail, with 79% of the deaths attributed to the disease in the US...

THE YEAR OF COVID was also the year that technology proved itself to be indispensable in people’s daily lives in Southeast Asia.

The use of the excess and idle funds of the Philippine Health Insurance Corp. or PhilHealth continue to be discussed in the country. See these...

The Philippines continuously faces threats from both internal and external sources. The evolving trends and issues on security, such as territorial expansionism, volatile geopolitical...

Business groups came together early this month to discuss what they perceived to be the immediate needs of the economy to sustain long-term growth. And among these, they said through the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, was the need to refine the K-12 basic education program by improving the skills of instructors and teaching in-demand skills.

IT HAS BEEN A YEAR since the pandemic hit India and, for me, the oddest thing is how healthy I’ve been. Like most but not all of the people I see on the streets, I have been masked up these past 12 months. I’ve washed my hands religiously and avoided crowds. As a result, for the first time in my life, I haven’t caught a cold all year.

History is always the most revered authority, and the ultimate teacher. It is empirical proof of expected results from conditions and contexts as naturally presented by science or as conjured and executed by minds. What has happened, has happened, and there is always a lesson learned.