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Do you have a sleep disorder?

Medicine Cabinet
Reiner W. Gloor

IT IS EASY enough to know that when you don’t sleep enough, you wake up the next day groggy and maybe even grumpy.

After 71 years, loved ones’ deaths still a mystery

By Joan Orendain

RODERICK MCMICKING HALL and his sister, Connie Hall McHugh, continue to wonder how, where and when their mother was killed by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army in 1945’s 30-day carnage.

Encouraging young readers

By Nickky Faustine P. de Guzman

READING is supposedly a physical affair. People are meant to touch, feel, smell, and highlight a book or a magazine.

How the Philippines ranks in quality of living

Mercer ranks 230 of the world’s destinations according to living conditions for multinational companies and their employees. See how the Philippines ranks. 

Does democracy still work in the Philippines?

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Philippines import’s annual performance

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Philippines’ misery index, pre- and post-1986

We present you this infographic to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the EDSA uprising. 

Foreign investment pledges by administration

Which president brought in the most foreign investments?

History through headlines: People Power Revolution

Below are front pages, news articles and comic strips of BusinessDay (the predecessor of BusinessWorld) published days leading to the People Power Revolution on February 25, 1986. 

How the Philippines ranks in the Social Progress Index

This infographic shows the ratings of Southeast Asian countries in Deloitte’s Social Progress Index. 

Remittances top 2015 goal

MONEY SENT HOME by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) rose to a record-high level in December that brought the full-year total well above a downward-revised official 4% estimate for 2015, according to the central bank.

In a statement, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said cash remittances totaled some $2.47 billion in December — the biggest inflows posted in any month and 4.9% more than the $2.354 billion seen a year prior.

Remittances traditionally peak every December as OFWs send money to their families for Christmas.

Betting on Mindanao

Building peace is just like clearing land mines.

Or so said Harriet Lamb, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the UK-based International Alert, one of the world’s leading peace-building organizations.